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The Flettner airplane, 921-v, a wing rotor airplane designed and built n 1930 by Anton Flettner, in the USA. This airplane, with an unique design based on the…
Ballon Ascension — Thomas Baldwin Made first parachute jump in 1887. Baldwin was the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute.
The Baldwin airship at Hammondsport, New York, in 1907. Thomas Scott Baldwin, second from left, became the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute, in 1887.
Traveling backwards The concorde was so fast that it was possible to fly around the world and against the clock. In the end of the last millennium, Air…
14th Photo Section, 1st Army, “The Balloonatic Section”. Ca. 1918. Air Service Photographic Section. (US Army Air Forces)
Tupolev Tu-144 was the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft, premiered on 31 December 1968, just two months before the first flight of Concorde. The aircraft was introduced…
March, 2, 1969: The first flight of Concorde 001 F-WTSS. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse and was in the air for just 27 minutes before the…
American soldier examines North-Korean anti-aircraft positions through a magnifying loupe. In the foreground is a well-equipped stereoscope. March 1952. (USAF Photo)