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Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina

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Power and Control in the Air

While wings proved to be a successful way to lift an aircraft, what would power and propel it into the sky? And once up there, how could a pilot control its movement in three-dimensional space? Early ...
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Capt. Francis Gary Powers

The Cold War Museum's Biography on U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Francis Gary Powers was born to Oliver and Ida Powers on August 17, 1929 in Burdine, Kentucky and raised in Pound, Virginia during the ...
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North American X-15

The North American X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft bridged the gap between manned flight within the atmosphere and manned flight beyond the atmosphere into space. After completing its initial ...
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Daimler-Benz DB 605 Inverted V-12 Engine

Developed from the DB-600 engine first produced in November 1937, the DB-600 series was used primarily in Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters. In 1939, a Messerschmitt 209V1, using a DB-605ARJ ...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG 21F-13 FISHBED-C

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Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Kittyhawk IA)

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Star Trek Starship Enterprise

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Lockheed Martin / Boeing RQ-3A Dark Star

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) developed the stealthy, low-observable DarkStar to provide sustained reconnaissance information from anywhere within ...
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Dayton-Wright DH-4

The United States possessed no combat-worthy aircraft upon entry into World War I in 1917. Several European aircraft were considered. The British DH-4 was selected because of its comparatively simple ...
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Wright brothers propeller, fixed-pitch, 1903 Wright Flyer

The Wright brothers designed and constructed the world's first practical fixed-pitch propeller and developed the aerodynamic theory to calculate its performance during the process of creating their ...
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Bomb, General Purpose, AN-M57, 250 lb.

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