Aeronautics Collection (page 2)

Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Women in white doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Women in white doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base

With a womans determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
With a womans determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl

Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Lowering an engine in place in assembling... Consolidated Aircraft Corp... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a transport plane in a Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport... Consolidated Aircraft... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator... Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon, June 24, 1789. Creator: John Murphy
The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop

Key members of the XS 1 research team, USA, January 1948. Creator: Unknown
Key members of the XS 1 research team, USA, January 1948. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics Muroc Flight Test Unit XS-1 Team members and USAF pilots (L-R): Joseph Vensel

President Hoover presents the Collier Trophy, USA, April 10, 1929. Creator: Unknown
President Hoover presents the Collier Trophy, USA, April 10, 1929. President Herbert Hoover presents the The Robert J. Collier Trophy, an annual aviation award, to Joseph Ames

Aviation pioneers at a conference, Langley Field, Virginia, USA, May 23, 1934. Eight of the twelve members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

Dr. Max Munk, chief of aerodynamics, in his office at Langley, Virginia, USA, 1926. German aerospace engineer Max M. Munk (1890-1986) achieved lasting fame by conceiving, developing

Godfrey, Cooper and DeFrance on the Ramp, 1948. Creator: NASA
Godfrey, Cooper and DeFrance on the Ramp, California, USA, 1948. Radio and early television personality Arthur Godfrey, (left) has a discussion with NACA civilian pilot George Cooper

Scott Crossfield Mach 2 flight. Creator: Unknown
Scott Crossfield after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953. Naval officer and test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to Mach 2, or more than 1

Amelia Earhart visits NACA, Virginia, USA, Nov. 5, 1928. Creator: Unknown
Amelia Earhart visits NACA, Virginia, USA, Nov. 5, 1928. American pioneer aviator Earhart on the steps of the Langley Research Building, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Pilot Joe Walker and the X-1A, California, USA, 1955. Creator: NASA
Pilot Joe Walker and the X-1A, California, USA, 1955. Cowboy Joe (NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph Walker) and his steed (Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A)

SR-71 over snow-capped mountains, USA, 1995. Creator: NASA
SR-71 over snow-capped mountains, USA, 1995. Drydens SR-71B, NASA 831, slices across the snowy southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California after being refueled by an Air Force Flight Test Center

John Becker with the 11-inch Hypersonic Tunnel, Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA, 1950. American engineer John V. Becker helped lead some of Americas most important early research into

Scott Crossfield... after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953
Scott Crossfield in the cockpit of the D-558-2 after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953. Naval officer and test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to Mach 2

Final meeting of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, USA, August 21, 1958. Left to right: T. Keith Glennan, NASA Administrator; Mr. Preston R

Franklin D. Roosevelt at Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA, July 29, 1940. President Roosevelt in a car inside a hangar at NASA Langley, the wing of a plane is visible in the background

Fred E. Weick, Tom Hamilton and Charles Lindbergh, USA, June 1927. Creator: Unknown
Fred Weick, Tom Hamilton and Charles Lindbergh, USA, June 1927. American aviators visting the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Fred E

Slide Rule, William J. Powell, ca. 1930s. Creator: Keuffel & Esser Co
During the 1920s William J. Powell led a small group of black air enthusiasts in Los Angeles. He established the Bessie Coleman Flying Club in 1929

Model, Wind Tunnel, Convair Space Shuttle, 2007. Creator: General Dynamics Corporation
Model, Wind Tunnel, Convair Space Shuttle, 2007. This wind tunnel 0.006 scale model set dates from the early Space Shuttle design effort

Portrait of Albert Francis Zahm (1862-1954), 1914. Creator: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Portrait of Albert Francis Zahm (1862-1954), 1914. During Glenn Curtiss flight tests of modified Langley Aerodrome on Keuka Lake

Departure of Blanchard and Jeffries Balloon from Dover, January 7, 1785, January 1794

The Handley Page Hereford, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Handley Page Hereford, 1941. British bomber with Napier Dagger engines, used during the Second World War. It was known by aircrews as the Flying Suitcase because of its cramped crew conditions

The Handley Page Hampden, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Handley Page Hampden, 1941. The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a British bomber with twin Bristol Pegasus radial engines, used during the Second World War

The Air Balloon, 1783, (1920). Creator: Unknown
The Air Balloon, (1783). 1920. The Air Balloon launched in the Artillery ground Nov.25, 1783. Engraving. From " The Connoisseur Vol. LVI" [Otto Limited, London, 1920.]

First manned ascent of a hydrogen balloon, Paris, France, 1 December 1783, (1932). Designed by Jacques Charles, a French professor of physics, and constructed by the brothers Jean and Noel Robert

Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. US fighter pilot and astronaut Joe Engle (born 1937) looks at data in zero gravity on the second flight of the Space Shuttle

Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. US pilot, aeronautical engineer and astronaut Joe Engle (born 1932)

Astronaut Joe Engle, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Astronaut Joe Engle, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. US pilot, aeronautical engineer and astronaut Joe Engle (born 1932) was Commander on the second flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-2

Hot air balloon ascending over Surrey Zoological Gardens, Southwark, London, 1838. Spectators watch from the ground

Het Jaar 1804!!!, 1794
Het Jaar 1804!!!, published 1794 (hand-coloured engraving)

Louis Bleriot leaving Calais to cross the English Channel in 1909
Louis Ble riot (1872-1936) leaving Calais to cross the English Channel in 1909 (b/w photo)

Wilbur Wright and his sister, Katherine, 1909
Wilbur Wright, American aviator and his sister, Katherine, 1909. Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and his brother Orville (1871-1948), were American inventors of aircraft

Sky cycle below a balloon, early 1900s

The Wright Brothers testing an early plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, c1903. Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948)

American aviator Glenn Curtiss making the first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908
American aviator Glenn Curtiss making his first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908. On 4 July 1908 at Hammondsport, New York, Curtiss (1878-1930) won a $25

Professor Samuel P Langleys aeroplane, 1903. Samuel Pierpoint Langley (1834-1906) was an American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer

Louis Bleriot on his way to the Savoy Hotel, London, 25 July 1909. French aviator Bleriot (1872-1936) passes cheering crowds after making the first successful powered flight across the Engliah

Louis Bleriot on the pier at Dover after his flight across the English Channel, 25 July 1909. French aviator Bleriot (1872-1936)

Hubert Latham prepares to take off after Louis Bleriot, near Calais, France, 25 July 1909. Flying an Antoinette aircraft, French aviator Hubert Latham (1883-1912)

A woman working on a Lancaster bomber, Second World War, 1940s. Female mechanic working on George the autopilot

The Enterprizing Lunardis Grand Air Ballon, 1784
The Enterprizing Lunardis Grand Air Ballon. which took its flight from the Artillery Ground September 15th, 1784. Amidst the acclamations of 300, 000 spectators

Sir Frederick Handley Page, English industrialist, (c1924). Handley Page (1885-1962) pioneered the design and manufacture of aircraft

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping