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Tupolev Tu-22M, a Russian variable-wing supersonic jet bomber first flown in 1969. It was designed for potential use in war against the NATO countries, where it was known by the designation “Backfire.”
AH-64 Apache helicopter
Hydrogen gas generator being used to inflate an observation balloon during the American Civil War, 1862.
aviation: Schwaben
zeppelin
World War I; zeppelin
military aircraft
World War I military aircraft
Fokker Eindecker
A 1917 Albatros D.Va, a German fighter plane of World War I.
Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
Surveil the surroundings from a military balloon aircraft utilized throughout World War I
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
German aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Ben R. Rich
American engineer
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Marcel Dassault
French industrialist
Anthony Fokker
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
Dutch aircraft manufacturer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aeronautical engineer
Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Glenn L. Martin
American aircraft inventor

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