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The Dating Game: Which Came First?
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
Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
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Why Do You Have to Turn Off Electronic Devices on an Airplane?
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What Is Known (and Not Known) About Contrails
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Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Olive Ann Beech
American businesswoman
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Louise McPhetridge Thaden
American aviator
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Clément Ader.
Clément Ader
French inventor
V-22
Richard Ten Eyck
American industrial designer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Bell Jet Ranger 206-B
Charles Wilfred Butler
American industrial designer
Alex McEvoy: portrait of Sir John William Alcock
Sir John William Alcock
British aviator
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer

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(Left) Ball of predictions with answers to questions based on the Magic 8 Ball; (right): Rubik's Cube. (toys)
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Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
Transportation and Technology Firsts Quiz
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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Businessman using tablet phone on airplane
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Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?