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This exhibition featured 32 vintage European aviation posters. Created primarily to entice spectators to air meets, these rarely found posters document the marketing of early flight from its infancy (1880s) to the beginning of World War I (1915).

Drawn from the collection of the Allen Airways Flying Museum in El Cajon, California, Looping the Loop also was supported by the scholarship and expertise of aviation historian Henry Serrano Villard (1900-1996).

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