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The fast and rugged Spad XIII was among the most successful fighters of World War I, in a class with the legendary Fokker D.VII and Sopwith Camel. It was flown by some of the most famous air heroes of ...

Capt. Francis Gary Powers is honored for his contributions to aviation history, including his role as a U-2 pilot during the Cold War.

This small exhibit featured historic Transformers toys, aviation and Jetfire-related characters, and props used in the major motion picture Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a portion of which was ...

Physical Description Davis recoilless gun consisting of rifled steel tube barrel with hand grip and tiggers for firing both main round and Lewis gun, shoulder rest, and U-shaped support for post mount ...

A selection of well-known and world-renowned air and space artifacts currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. You can also view a full list of objects on display.

Heinkel designed and built the first prototype of the He 162 in record time. Just 74 days passed between the day Heinkel received the contract on September 23 and first flight on December 6. Numerous ...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the Cockburn-Lange hoax. The material includes the photos used in the book, as well as correspondence and journal articles detailing Grosz and Schneide's ...

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You may be familiar with the story of the first flight or the first person to step on the moon, but in the worlds of aviation and space, there are plenty of daring and brave individuals who have ...

After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the 1960s, many advocates of space exploration envisioned a permanent human presence in space.

Alan Shepard became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile), 15-minute suborbital flight.