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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress Italian Caproni bomber of World War I. B-29 P-51
Watch testing of the B-47A Stratojet in 1953
Watch B-52H Stratofortress bomber flying over the Mojave Desert, California
The first stealth aircraft B-52 Martin P6M SeaMaster Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
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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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11 of the World’s Most Famous Warplanes
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained
Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.
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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours
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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
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Italian Caproni bomber of World War I.
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P-51
The first stealth aircraft
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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
American engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
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