You've heard of a joke bombing, but here's what it looks like.  From Winthrop's 1915 yearbook.

Date uncertain.  (Our own restoration.)

From Lustige Blätter, 1914.

A mile-high house of cards.  From The Bullet newspaper, 1957.

It's rare to find an airplane and a locomotive within an hourglass.  "Now buried forever in the rapidly shifting sands of time."  From Colorado College's 1929 yearbook.

It's been said that everything that can be done must be done to improve air safety.  From Satirikon, 1909.

"On they flew toward the big round moon catching the light from the distant blazing sun."  From Little Star Gazers by Julia Augusta Schwartz, 1917.

My modest collection of vintage airplanes is taking off.

"New worlds to conquer!"  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

From Krokodil, 1952.