Aerial View of Brooks Field Hangars (1927)

A wide, hazy aerial photograph looking down at the long, curved line of aircraft hangars and the vast surrounding landscape of Brooks Field. — Aerial View of Brooks Field Hangars (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Concluding his sweeping aerial documentation of the Texas training facility, Donald A. Hall Sr. captured this wide view of the iconic curved hangar line at Brooks Field. The photograph preserves the massive scale of the military infrastructure that shaped early American aviation.