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The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by...
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The Gemini program was conducted between 1964 and 1967 to give NASA engineers and...
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The Lockheed C-5A Galaxy undergoing a wing vortice test at NASA's Langley Research...
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A U.S. Air Force C-17 taking off from Palmdale, California, c. 2003.
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This video shows a takeoff and landing of a crewed U.S. space shuttle. The shuttle's...
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Overview of a Boeing 747 undergoing a comprehensive inspection known as the D-Check.
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Efforts to reduce the noise generated by a helicopter's rotor blades.
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Job description of an aerospace program manager.
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Workers assembling Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet airplanes in South Carolina in 2013....
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Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill...
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German Junkers J-1 monoplane fighter prototype, 1915. The all-metal J-1 Blechesel...
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Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft, which first flew in 1935. From its introduction...
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William E. Boeing, 1929.
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Martin M-130 “flying boat,” China Clipper, passing over the partially completed...
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Sikorsky R-4, the world's first production helicopter, which served U.S. and British...
U.S. Coast Guard
Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, which began production in 1940. Its excellent...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter-interceptor, which first flew in 1939. In continuous...
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North American Aviation F-86 jet fighter, which became operational in 1949. During...
United States Air Force Museum
AV-8 Harrier V/STOL jet fighter, produced for the U.S. Marines, 1983. Developed by...
Cpl. Jamean Berry/U.S. Marine Corps
Soviet Molniya 1 communications satellite, one of a series deployed beginning in...
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Yuri Gagarin (left), the first human to travel into space, and Sergei Korolev, Soviet...
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Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle with its four landing-gear footpads deployed....
NASA
Apollo 15 Command and Service modules in lunar orbit with the Moon's surface in the...
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Apollo 15 spacecraft during liftoff from Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S., atop a Saturn...
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U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery lifting off from the Kennedy Space...
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Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic passenger airliner, lifting off in Moscow in 1996 as part...
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Concorde supersonic passenger transport, which first flew in 1969 and entered commercial...
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C-5 Galaxy military transporter. Developed by Lockheed and with engines by General...
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Mil Mi-12 heavy-lift transport helicopter. Powered by two pairs of turboshaft engines,...
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Mil Mi-24 assault and transport helicopter, the prototype of which first flew in...
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Airbus A320 short- to medium-range jetliner, which first flew in 1987 and went into...
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West German physicist-astronaut Ulf Merbold conducting a materials-processing experiment...
NASA
MiG-29, a Russian twin-engine attack light interceptor. The first prototype flew...
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U.S. Marine Corps C-12W Huron aircraft.
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A Beechcraft Baron airplane coming in for a landing. The aircraft is used mainly...
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Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. The twin-engine aircraft, which...
© 1999 Bombardier Aerospace Inc.
U.S. Navy Lockheed S-3 Viking aircraft.
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Eurofighter Typhoon, DA5 prototype. The twin-engine Typhoon jet fighter is the result...
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Sukhoy S-37 air-superiority fighter. The twin-engine Russian aircraft, which features...
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Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo transporter, carrying the Buran orbiter component of the...
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B-2 Spirit stealth jet bomber. Northrop Grumman served as the prime contractor for...
U.S. Air Force; photo, Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald
AH-64 Apache attack and reconnaissance helicopter. The twin-engine aircraft, developed...
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Bell Helicopter Textron 206B-3 JetRanger III civil helicopter, in police service,...
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V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, developed jointly by Bell Helicopter Textron and...
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Israeli Aircraft Industries Searcher, a reconnaissance uncrewed aerial vehicle, at...
Itayba
Russian Proton launch vehicle with the Granat high-energy astrophysics observatory,...
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The International Space Station, imaged from the space shuttle Endeavour...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Rocket with Expedition 33 crew members on board the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft launching...
NASA
A Japanese HTV-4 uncrewed cargo spacecraft backing away from the International Space...
NASA
Interior of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida,...
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