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Discover stories etched into the landscape and see how the world has transformed over the decades.

Transformed: How America’s Earliest Airfields Live On

Jason Smith September 10, 2025

Thousands of people stream through them every day — shopping, commuting, picnicking, or working — without realizing they are moving across ground once alive with

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Aerial Insights: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of American Horse Racing

Jason Smith August 27, 2025

Once you learn the shape, you can’t unsee it. A clean oval ghosting beneath cul-de-sacs, stitched into golf fairways, hiding behind warehouse rows. From above,

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Water Writes with a Pencil & Eraser

Jason Smith August 6, 2025

So you’ve found the perfect waterfront property, you’ve picked out the homesite, and you’re already thinking about the dock you want to build, and all

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Aerial Insights: When Water Strikes

Jason Smith July 23, 2025

This past Fourth of July, while many celebrated across the nation, an unimaginable tragedy unfolded in the Texas Hill Country. Without warning, a serene holiday

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The Cumberland Road: America’s First Highway

Jason Smith July 9, 2025

Stop complaining about your commute. Tomorrow morning, many of you will slide behind the wheel, your coffee securely nestled in its cup holder, climate-controlled air

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Submerged: More of America’s Flooded Places

Jason Smith June 25, 2025

Exploring places submerged by lake formation in the United States is a captivating endeavor using HistoricAerials.com. Since many of these lakes were created in the

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Malcolm Woronoff: Bold Legacy of a Sky Photographer

Jason Smith June 11, 2025

Nearly a century after James Wallace Black successfully photographed Boston from a hot-air balloon, Malcolm Woronoff soared over the same city, capturing breathtaking detail through

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Navigating the Skies: The Rise of Beacon Stations in Early Aviation

Jason Smith May 28, 2025

In the pioneering days of aviation, navigating the skies was a challenging endeavor. Without modern instruments like GPS, pilots relied heavily on visual references and

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Balloons of War: Part V – Twilight Over the Trenches

Jason Smith May 13, 2025

High above the mud and trenches of World War I, tethered balloons swayed with the wind, carrying observers who scanned the horizon for any sign

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Balloons of War: Part IV — Africa’s Skies and the Colonial Eye

Jason Smith April 30, 2025

When the balloon first went up over Africa, it wasn’t flying over a battlefield—but over Cairo, as a stunt. The year was 1798, and Napoleon

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Balloons of War: Part III — Britain’s Ascent

Jason Smith April 16, 2025

By the 1870s, military strategists around the world were beginning to take the aerial perspective seriously. Balloons had already proven their value in France, the

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Balloons of War: Part II — Eyes in the South American Sky

Jason Smith April 2, 2025

The American Civil War was the proving ground for military ballooning and the advantages of aerial perspective. Once affirmed on the battlefield, aeronauts sought new

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Balloons of War: Part I —The Birth and Re-birth of Aerial Reconnaissance

Jason Smith March 19, 2025

In early 2023, a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon drifted into U.S. airspace, prompting a diplomatic crisis and its eventual shootdown. The revelation that similar balloons

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Cecil Shadbolt and the Birth of British Aerial Photography

Jason Smith March 6, 2025

Continuing our exploration of aerial photography’s trailblazing figures, we now turn our attention to another significant pioneer. Cecil Victor Shadbolt (1859–1892), an innovative British photographer

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The Wet Plate Revolution and the Birth of Aerial Photography

Jason Smith February 20, 2025

The allure of aerial perspective had captivated humanity for centuries.  Hot air balloons, invented in 1783, offered a tantalizing glimpse of this world from above.

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