Spirit of St Louis, Sputnik 1, SpaceShipOne, Bell X-1
Bell P-59, USSR SS-20, NAA X-15 at top, mid level Sputnik 1 and Explorer, lower left Gemini spacecraft
Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One
Around the world in a very small cockpit - nonstop
As Mort Sahl said about von Braun - "I aim for the stars ... but sometimes I hit London." - V-2 rocket
the most famous of the Laika's - lost while in orbit aboard Sputnik 2
the 1903 Wriight Flyer
Rocketdyme F-1 engine - 1.5 Mlb of thrust - 5 of these were the 1st stage of the Saturn 5
Grumman Lunar Excursion Module - what happens when you don't have to worry about aerodynamic drag for your design
this is a nostalgia shot for those of us of a certain age I had a Marchant mechanical calculator just like this one in the bottom of this case when I was at Bayway in 1967
swept forward test aircraft
Charles Lindbergh's "office" on the 1927 flight - note lack of forward visibility - he did have a periscope
Ford Tri-Motor with DC-3 in background ... do you remember Eastern Airlines?
4 bladed prop to control vibration
prototype of a UACV
Predator with 2 Hellfire missiles
Douglas SBD at top - turned the tide in 5 minutes at the Battle of Midway June 1942 Douglas A-4 below
Supermarine Spitfire MkV
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Otto Lilienthal's glider - he died in a glider crash - the Wrights used his lift/drag data
Bleriot
Me262 - the best jet fighter of WWII
flying ... back in the day!
flying ... back then
flying ... now - although the paper tickets say that this is now outdated
the lower plane is the Boeing 247 - about 200 sold, the upper plane is the Douglas DC-3 - about 15,000 sold (incl. military versions)
One small step for man - the first step toward the moon and space - the first liquid fuel rocket by Dr. Robert Goddard
learning about the Bernoulli Effect
Me-109
NAA X-15 - held speed and altitude records - Neil Armstrong flew this before he became an astronaut
around the world by balloon
Bell X-1 - first plane to exceed the speed of sound without coming apart
Charles Lindbergh bet his life on the reliablity of this Wright "Whirlwind" engine and that is what got the Ryan NYP from New York to Paris in just over 33 hours
fuzzy photo of Beech "Staggerwing" this was the LearJet of the 1930s
Howard Hughes - HR-1 racer
lower wing forward made for a staggerwing - note the retractable landing gear
HR-1 below, Beech D-17 "Staggerwing" above
for pilots who needed the security of a mechanic to work on engine in flight
HR-1
each symbol is a plane in flight
the blue lines are Delta flights in the air over the USA, the rest of the planes are just white dots Can you find Atlanta?
early navigation aide - route marker beacon - the only remnant of this are the white/green beacons at all airports
Sputnik 1 - launched by USSR Oct 1957 on right, Explorer 1 launched by the US Jan 1958 on left
Apollo 11 Command Module - orbited the Moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed the LEM and went for a walk
