From the moment the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 to the modern-day reliance on stealth aircraft and drones, there have been significant advances made in aviation. Milestones of Flight ...

Images made with LIDAR have revealed previously unknown ancient Mayan structures. (PACUNAM/Francisco Estrada-Belli) ...

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 ...

Other collections within the Archives Division of the National Air and Space Museum which are relevant to Waco are as follows: The Hattie Meyers Junkin Papers(1906-1982), Accession #XXXX-0171.

The Rheintochter (Rhine Maiden) R I was an experimental German two-stage antiaircraft missile tested in the last year of World War II. Built by the Rheinmetall-Borsig company for the Luftwaffe, it was ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The ...

Seventy-one percent of Earth’s surface is covered in oceans, but did you ever wonder why? Join Kathy Mandt from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as she discusses where Earth's ocean water came from ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The ...

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Through a representative in England, General Electric learned of the pioneering jet engine development of Frank Whittle. This resulted in a visit by General H.H. Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air ...

David Desbordes is a native Washingtonian. He attended Howard University in the school year 1975-1976. He was awarded a candidacy through that University’s ROTC Program to USAFA.

This accession consists of six original photographs of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (NR16020) taken during a refueling stop at Caripito, Venezuela, on June 2, 1937, ...