img. Aeroport Girona Costa Brava. Controladors aeris. Vilobí d’Onyar. Narcìs Sans Prats; Ajuntament de Girona / CRDI, CC-BY-NC-ND via Europeana.

Discover the 20th century and its social, political and economical changes as documented in photographs, videos, paintings and files, carefully selected by the Editorial Team of EU funded Europeana XX project, to showcase compelling stories and original insights from our recent past.

Today we present “Air Traffic Control“.

Always making sure we reach our destination safe and sound, air traffic controllers never get to leave their tower to receive the recognition they deserve. These images of ground control makes these invisible workers visible.

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