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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress Italian Caproni bomber of World War I. B-29 P-51
Watch testing of the B-47A Stratojet in 1953
Watch B-52H Stratofortress bomber flying over the Mojave Desert, California
The first stealth aircraft B-52 Martin P6M SeaMaster Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress
Italian Caproni bomber of World War I.
B-29
P-51
The first stealth aircraft
B-52
Martin P6M SeaMaster
Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
Watch testing of the B-47A Stratojet in 1953
Watch B-52H Stratofortress bomber flying over the Mojave Desert, California
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Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
Glenn L. Martin
American aircraft inventor
Eugen Sänger
Austrian engineer
Aleksey Andreyevich Tupolev
Russian aircraft designer

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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
Man-Made Birds in the Sky