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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress Italian Caproni bomber of World War I. B-29 P-51
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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress
Italian Caproni bomber of World War I.
B-29
P-51
The first stealth aircraft
B-52
Martin P6M SeaMaster
Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
Watch testing of the B-47A Stratojet in 1953
Watch B-52H Stratofortress bomber flying over the Mojave Desert, California
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Leroy Randle Grumman
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Claudius Dornier
German engineer
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Sir Frederick Handley Page
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Glenn L. Martin
American aircraft inventor
Eugen Sänger
Austrian engineer
Aleksey Andreyevich Tupolev
Russian aircraft designer

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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
Man-Made Birds in the Sky
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B-52G with cruise missiles, USAF, short range attack missiles SRAMs; guided missile
11 of the World’s Most Famous Warplanes