Army Ordnances two stage Bumper rocket zooms skyward from the long range Proving Ground at Cocoa FL on the first leg of its flight. When the basic vehicle, a V-2, reaches the end of it s first burning period, a smaller Wac Corporal missile will be...
NASAs Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise is shown mated atop its 747 carrier jet during the first captive test flight of the Orbiter February 18, 1977 over the Mojave Desert of Southern California. During the test flight the mated aircraft/Orbiter...
Text from back of image: "Col. Charles A. Lindbergh adjusting his helmet just before taking off in an Army plane for New York after being welcomed home by enthusiastic Washingtonians."
Text from back of image: 'Captain Lowell Smith, commander of the round-the-world flight, has temporarily become an automobile race driver, making his debut at the wheel of a race car at the Culver City, Calif. Speedway on February 17th. He is...
Text from back of image: "A recent visitor to Washington was Capt. Vaino Bremer of Finland, who is making a leisurely around-the-world flight. He was a competitor in the Chicago air races."
Text from back of photo: 'Photo shows L to R - Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien in front of their machine the St. Louis Robin, after they brought it to earth in a faultless landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, after 420 hours, 21 minutes and 30...
Text from back of photo: At that, Captain Roscoe Turner got to New York from Glendale, Calif., with a navigator and three passengers, in 19 hours 51 minutes, after making four stops for fuel. He had hoped to make the trip in 18 hours. Photo shows...
Text from back of photo: 'Prof. Jean Piccard, right, discussing with his twin brother, August Piccard, plans for Jean's proposed flight into the stratosphere with Lieut. Settle of the Navy for a new altitude record.'
Text from back of image: "As a return gesture for the recent good-will flight of American fliers to Montreal, Canada, a group of Montreal aviators landed at Roosevelt Field, N.Y., Sept. 19, to complete a good-will flight of their own. They are...
Text from back of photo: 'Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brien, St. Louis fliers, are tuning up their endurance plane to break record now held by the Hunter brothers of Sparta, Ill., which is 553 hours, 41 minutes. Prior to the Hunter boys feat...
Text from back of image: 'Marine fliers who will complete a flight of 10,953 miles, the second longest flight in the history of aviation and the longest American flight. The men have flown from the Island of Haiti to Washington, St. Louis, San...
Text from back of image: 'Technical Sargent Turner--Staff Sargent Ogden--Alternate Pilot Leslie P. Arnold--Pilot Lee Wade--Pilot Lt. Smith--Major Martin Commander--Staff Sargent Harvey
Text from back of image: 'Fighting through chill arctic winds and snow storms, the three U.S. army round the world fliers, under command of Lieut. Lowell Smith, above, negotiated the 878-mile flight from Attu Island to Paramashiru Island, thereby...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Transcontinental flights; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "E. E. Mouton, pilot of the U.S. mail plane, No. 151 which flew from New York to San Francisco, carrying mail. This is the first successful trans-continental air mail flight. Mouton was greeted by Col. John A. Jordan, Supt....
Text from back of image: "Grettir Algarsson of British Colmbia, Canada, expects to leave Liverpool, England in May on an attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane. He will sail by boat to Spitzbergen, drift into the ice pack and take off by plane...
Text from back of image: 'The plane 'Star of Australia' with Capt. T. P. Ulm and two companions aboard took off from Oakland Airport, Calif., on the first leg of the flight to Australia. This photo shows, left to right: Capt. T.P. Ulm, chief pilot;...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Rene Fonck (left) Igor Sikorsky and Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin, snapped as they arrived in the National Capital in the plane Ville de Paris with which they will attempt a New York to Paris flight late this month....
Text from back of image: 'Paul Codos (left) and Maurice Rossi, the daring French airmen who crossed the Atlantic from Paris to New York in 38 hours and 27 minutes, are pictured at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, May 28, shortly after they...
Text from back of image: 'Refreshed after a night's rest, Paul Codos (left), and Maurice Rossi (right), gallant French flyers who landed in New York a day before, after a trans-Atlantic crossing from Paris, are shown at breakfast with Charles de...
