Imaginary Aircraft of Massive Oddness

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These Air Wonder Stories magazine covers are just absolutely delightful--full of abolute hope and belief in the possibilities of what the future might bring i the forms o fair travel.  THe first shows an enormous jet-powered craft that is breaking through a waterspout, seemingly undisturbed. 

And this massive "Aircraft", really a floating, gravity defying (or defining) element of enormity, floating New York City above itself:

 And then, there's this enormous thing, cleaved away into bits by a yellow ray of yellowish rayness:

 Nothing quite signifies flight as a circular ship with 60 rotating chew-'em-up teeth: