Museo Aeronáutico de Málaga

This guide to the Museo Aeronáutico de Málaga follows the small rituals pilots swore by in early aviation, a coin in the pocket, a rabbit's foot, chewed gum pressed onto the wing before takeoff. It traces how a French biplane's accidental landing on a farm called El Rompedizo in March 1919 turned this field into an airport, and how Didier Daurat opened one of Europe's first scheduled airmail routes here that September, from Toulouse down through Barcelona toward Tangier and Casablanca. Listen for the propeller near the entrance, it still turns.