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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.

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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."

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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."

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Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief, and Piper Cub

Popular private planes on an airfield: Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief and Piper Club

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Model of the World Cruisers

Diorama of the World Cruisers at Seward, Alaska.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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