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Assembly of the Boeing 787 first flight by Orville Wright, December 17, 1903
Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
Junkers J-1 prototype, 1915 Douglas DC-3 William E. Boeing, 1929 Martin M-130 Sikorsky R-4 Mitsubishi Zero P-38
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Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch the launch and booster separation of Gemini spacecraft as it is lifted off the ground by a Titan II rocket
The Gemini program was conducted between 1964 and 1967 to give NASA engineers and...
Video: NASA
C-5A: wing vortice test
The Lockheed C-5A Galaxy undergoing a wing vortice test at NASA's Langley Research...
Video: NASA/Dryden Research Aircraft Movie Collection
C-17 Globemaster III
A U.S. Air Force C-17 taking off from Palmdale, California, c. 2003.
Video: NASA/Dryden Research Aircraft Movie Collection
space shuttle: Takeoff and landing
This video shows a takeoff and landing of a crewed U.S. space shuttle. The shuttle's...
Video: NASA
The intricate process of a Boeing 747 D-check explained
Overview of a Boeing 747 undergoing a comprehensive inspection known as the D-Check.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
View Christoph Kessler of the German Space Agency working on a helicopter's rotor blades to reduce the noise
Efforts to reduce the noise generated by a helicopter's rotor blades.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
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Job description of an aerospace program manager.
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Assembly of the Boeing 787
Workers assembling Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet airplanes in South Carolina in 2013....
Bruce Smith—AP/Shutterstock.com
first flight by Orville Wright, December 17, 1903
Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-6166A)
Junkers J-1 prototype, 1915
German Junkers J-1 monoplane fighter prototype, 1915. The all-metal J-1 Blechesel...
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft, which first flew in 1935. From its introduction...
Archive Photos/Getty Images
William E. Boeing, 1929
William E. Boeing, 1929.
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive— Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library/UCLA Library Digital Collections (CC BY 4.0)
Martin M-130
Martin M-130 “flying boat,” China Clipper, passing over the partially completed...
Courtesy of Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Sikorsky R-4
Sikorsky R-4, the world's first production helicopter, which served U.S. and British...
U.S. Coast Guard
Mitsubishi Zero
Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, which began production in 1940. Its excellent...
© KuntalSaha—iStock Editorial/Getty Images
P-38
Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter-interceptor, which first flew in 1939. In continuous...
Courtesy of Lockheed Corporation
F-86
North American Aviation F-86 jet fighter, which became operational in 1949. During...
United States Air Force Museum
AV-8 Harrier fighter, 1983
AV-8 Harrier V/STOL jet fighter, produced for the U.S. Marines, 1983. Developed by...
Cpl. Jamean Berry/U.S. Marine Corps
Telstar 1
American-built Telstar 1 communications satellite, launched July 10, 1962, which...
NASA
Molniya 1
Soviet Molniya 1 communications satellite, one of a series deployed beginning in...
Sovfoto
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Yuri Gagarin (left), the first human to travel into space, and Sergei Korolev, Soviet...
© Sovfoto
Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle, 1969
Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle with its four landing-gear footpads deployed....
NASA
Apollo 15 Command and Service modules, 1971
Apollo 15 Command and Service modules in lunar orbit with the Moon's surface in the...
NASA
Apollo 15 liftoff
Apollo 15 spacecraft during liftoff from Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S., atop a Saturn...
NASA
U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery liftoff, 1985
U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery lifting off from the Kennedy Space...
Johnson Space Center/NASA
Tu-144
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic passenger airliner, lifting off in Moscow in 1996 as part...
© Tass/Sovfoto
Concorde
Concorde supersonic passenger transport, which first flew in 1969 and entered commercial...
© Senohrabek/Dreamstime.com
C-5 Galaxy
C-5 Galaxy military transporter. Developed by Lockheed and with engines by General...
1996-1999 Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mi-12 helicopter
Mil Mi-12 heavy-lift transport helicopter. Powered by two pairs of turboshaft engines,...
© Sovfoto/Eastfoto
Mi-24 helicopter
Mil Mi-24 assault and transport helicopter, the prototype of which first flew in...
© Sovfoto/Eastfoto
Airbus A320
Airbus A320 short- to medium-range jetliner, which first flew in 1987 and went into...
© Airbus Industrie
Spacelab 1
West German physicist-astronaut Ulf Merbold conducting a materials-processing experiment...
NASA
MiG-29
MiG-29, a Russian twin-engine attack light interceptor. The first prototype flew...
© Sovfoto/Eastfoto
U.S. Marine Corps aircraft
U.S. Marine Corps C-12W Huron aircraft.
Naval Air Systems Command/U.S. Navy
Beechcraft Baron
A Beechcraft Baron airplane coming in for a landing. The aircraft is used mainly...
© Aleksander Markin (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Bombardier Global Express
Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. The twin-engine aircraft, which...
© 1999 Bombardier Aerospace Inc.
passenger jet airplane
Parts of a passenger jet airplane.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
military aircraft
U.S. Navy Lockheed S-3 Viking aircraft.
U.S. Department of Defense/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Eurofighter Typhoon prototype
Eurofighter Typhoon, DA5 prototype. The twin-engine Typhoon jet fighter is the result...
© Airbus Industrie
S-37 fighter
Sukhoy S-37 air-superiority fighter. The twin-engine Russian aircraft, which features...
© Sovfoto/Eastfoto
Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo transporter
Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo transporter, carrying the Buran orbiter component of the...
© Sovfoto/Eastfoto
B-2 bomber
B-2 Spirit stealth jet bomber. Northrop Grumman served as the prime contractor for...
U.S. Air Force; photo, Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald
AH-64 Apache helicopter
AH-64 Apache attack and reconnaissance helicopter. The twin-engine aircraft, developed...
© richardcalver/iStock.com
police helicopter
Bell Helicopter Textron 206B-3 JetRanger III civil helicopter, in police service,...
© 1998 Textron All Rights Reserved.
V-22 Osprey
V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, developed jointly by Bell Helicopter Textron and...
© Terraxplorer/iStock.com
Searcher UAV
Israeli Aircraft Industries Searcher, a reconnaissance uncrewed aerial vehicle, at...
Itayba
Proton launch vehicle, 1989
Russian Proton launch vehicle with the Granat high-energy astrophysics observatory,...
© Tass/Sovfoto
International Space Station, 2000
The International Space Station, imaged from the space shuttle Endeavour...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soyuz
Rocket with Expedition 33 crew members on board the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft launching...
NASA
HTV-4 spacecraft
A Japanese HTV-4 uncrewed cargo spacecraft backing away from the International Space...
NASA
space shuttle Atlantis
Interior of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida,...
Ken Thornsley/NASA
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