AVIATION HISTORY

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early flying myths legends balloons airships Bernoullis theory of flight ornithopters helicopters early aviation towards powered flight Wright Brothers world war one airplane at war barnstormers air racers air speed records air records trans atlantic flights World War two the jet age space history of airliners history of helicopters history of microlights Evolution of aviation Technology George Cayley thrust balloons and airships Henson/Stringfellow Alphonse Penaud Francis Wenham Otto Lilianthal Pilcher and Chanute Samuel Langley Horatio Phillips Glen Curtiss Alexander Graham Bell Fort Meyer Trials dirigibles Louis Bleriot Reims air race Airshows Santos Dumont Aerial Reconnaissance Aerial Combat air aces the Fokker scourge The Red Baron Lafayette Escadrille the bombers America at War barnstormers Clyde Upside-Down Pangborn Schneider Trophy the great races Hollywood stunt pilots women aviators Charles Lindbergh Reims Schneider Trophy The Golden Years of aviation Cleveland Air Races Powder Puff Derby Bendix Trophy Arctic Aerial Exploration Antarctic Exploration Australian record flights equal rights in aviation for women Calbraith Rogers Alan Cobham,  Bert Hinkler Byrd & Bennett Charles Lindbergh Douglas Corrigan Wiley Post Amelia Earhart Howard Hughes Kingsford Smith Amy Johnson Beryl Markham Italo Balbo Jimmy Doolittle NACA NASA air power between the wars advocates of strategic bombing Billy Mitchell the U.S. Air Corps air mail airlines the flying boats the clipper ships airships Hindenburg disaster Spanish Civil War World War II Begins The Battle of Britain the Eastern Front Pacific War the Flying Tigers Mediterranean theatre US apartheid women pilots at war US fighters bombers The B- 17 and B-29 Russian aircraft WW2 fighters WW2 bombers commercial aviation the Cold War The Berlin Airlift The B-52 Bomber cold war fighters The Korean War Air War in Vietnam The Gulf War small wars top speed Early X-Planes X-15 and Hypersonics rocket history Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy Hermann Oberth Robert H. Goddard Wernher von Braun Sergei P. Korolev Principles of Rocketry Early U.S. Rocketry Postwar U.S. Rocketry Thor, Agena, and Delta Atlas The Titan Launch Vehicle Upper Stages Solid Propellants Russian Launch Vehicles Launch Vehicles of other nations The Sputnik triumph Early Soviet Human Spaceflight Program Mercury Gemini Apollo Soviet Race to the Moon Soviet Space Stations Skylab Apollo-Soyuz Test Shuttle history The Challenger Accident Shuttle launches International Space Station automated spacecraft Robotic U.S. Missions to the Moon Inner planet exploration Outer planet exploration Exploring other bodies Solar-Terrestrial Physics Astronomy From Space Earth Observation Satellites Meteorological Satellites Remote Sensing Satellites Missile Early Warning Satellites Intelligence Satellites Ballistic Missiles Energia and Khrunichev Ariane Communications Satellites Comsat and Intelsat International Space Agencies Cape Canaveral Vandenberg Air Force Base Astronauts and Cosmonauts Scaled Composites The first private venture A-4 "Mike" Antoinette Bleriot XI Boeing P-12-A Cassutt Special Cessna CR-3 Chester "Goon" Chester Special Comet DH88 Curtiss R2C-1 Curtiss R3C Curtiss Robin Dayton Wright  Deperdussin Racer Farman GeeBee R1 GEEBEE-Z Hall Bulldog Racer Hughes H-1 Pete Laird Super Solution Laird Turner Meteor Lockheed Vega Lockheed 12A Macchi-Castoli MC 72 Messerschmitt Me 209  Miles Atwood special  Miles Sparrow Hawk Miles Whitney Straight Miss Los Angeles "Mr Mulligan"  P51 Mustang "Nemesis" Percival Proctor Percival Mew Gull Percival Gull Rider"Firecracker" Rider '8 Ball' Shoestring "Polecat" Speed King 1  Seversky S-2  Seversky SEV-3  Sopwith Tabloid Spirit of St Louis Supermarine S-6B Tilbury Flash Travelair Mystery Ship Voisin Wedell Williams No.44 Winnie Mae Bert Acosta Rene Arnoux Pancho Barnes Jean Batten Lowell Bayles Milo Burcham Louis Bleriot Lord Brabazon Clarence Chamberlin Georges Chavez Jackie Cochran Bessie Coleman Douglas Corrigan Glenn Curtiss Doug Davis Leon Delagrange James Doolittle Amelia Earhart Eugene Ely Robert Esnault-Pelterie Frank Fuller Roland Garros Louis Greve Jimmy and Mae Haizlip Frank Hawks Alex Henshaw Charles Holman Benny Howard Howard Hughes Amy Johnson Joseph Kittinger Charles Lindbergh Paul Mantz Harold Neumann Clyde Pangborn Wiley Post Harriet Quimby Cal Rodgers Dick Rutan Charles Kingsford Smith Maud Tait Louise Thaden Bobbi Trout Roscoe Turner Polly Vacher Jules Vedrines Gabriel Voisin James Wedell Steve Whittman Wright Brothers Chuck Yeager Jeana Yeager