Photo by National Air and Space Museum&solSmithsonian Institution
Before Southern California gave the world McDonald’s, Disneyland, and Trader Joe’s, we were really good at making airplanes. The Santa Monica Airport is marking the centennial of the the first-ever flight around the world with Douglas Day this Sunday. The first air show in the United States was held near Compton in 1910 a little over six years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight. Northrop, Lockheed, and North American Aviation/Rockwell International all have roots near L.A., as seen in the Oscar-winning film Wings (1927), which made flying look sexy. Angeleno…..