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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Wright brothers Sopwith Camel Airbus A380 helicopter aviation: Chicago air distances from United States
View the launching of the Bell X-1 aircraft from the bomb bay of a B-29 bomber
Seven of the largest flying objects in history
See how air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany manage the rush hour traffic in the skies
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Sextant. Celestial navigation at sea. Sailor using sextant. Travel and navigation.
Travel and Navigation
Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
Close-up profile view of American aviator Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of a helicopter. Earhart wears a bomber jacket and flight goggles on her head.
Early Aviation
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
Transportation and Technology Firsts Quiz
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How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
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Also Known As civil aviation • air transportation • flight

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Wright brothers
Sopwith Camel
Airbus A380
helicopter
aviation: Chicago
air distances from United States
View the launching of the Bell X-1 aircraft from the bomb bay of a B-29 bomber
Seven of the largest flying objects in history
See how air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany manage the rush hour traffic in the skies
Learn how the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon contributed to the field of aviation
Know how a helicopter stays up in the air and how its rotor generates lift
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Key People

Orville and Wilbur Wright
Wright brothers
American aviators
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Richard E. Byrd.
Richard E. Byrd
American explorer
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
German aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Louise McPhetridge Thaden
American aviator
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth
American explorer
Eileen Collins
Eileen Collins
United States pilot and astronaut
Edward O'Hare
Edward O’Hare
American aviator and WWII hero
Voisin, Gabriel; Voisin, Charles
Gabriel Voisin
French aviation pioneer
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
American pilot
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
United States general

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Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
Close-up profile view of American aviator Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of a helicopter. Earhart wears a bomber jacket and flight goggles on her head.
Early Aviation
Sextant. Celestial navigation at sea. Sailor using sextant. Travel and navigation.
Travel and Navigation
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
Transportation and Technology Firsts Quiz
Demystified
Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?