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Goddard’s “Hoopskirt” Rocket Liquid Oxygen Tank and Alcohol Stove
Goddard launched this rocket on December 26, 1928, when it went 62 meters (205 feet). The “Hoopskirt” was nicknamed after a 19th-century dress fashion.
Lockheed Model 8 Sirius Tingmissartoq
The Lindbergh's flew the Lockheed Sirius to survey airline routes. A Greenland Eskimo boy named it Tingmissartoq—“One who flies like a big bird."
Lockheed Model 8 Sirius Tingmissartoq
The Lindberghs flew the Lockheed Sirius to survey airline routes. A Greenland Eskimo boy named it Tingmissartoq —“One who flies like a big bird."
Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief, and Piper Cub
Popular private planes on an airfield: Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief and Piper Club
Model of the World Cruisers
Diorama of the World Cruisers at Seward, Alaska.
NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4 and their Crews
NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4 and their crews begin their journey across the Atlantic at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, on May 8, 1919.
Piper Cubs with the U.S. Navy War Training Service
Three-fourths of the Civilian Pilot Training Program students learned to fly in Piper Cubs.
Preparing for Flight to Scotland
Lowell Smith oversees the movement of the Chicago to the Humber River at Brough, England, before the flight to Scotland.
Reproduction of Goddard’s March 1926 Rocket
Reproduction of Goddard’s March 1926 rocket and his original May 1926 rocket in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Museum in DC.
Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis
In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history in his Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris.
