100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Years of Flight
An Air & Space/Smithsonian guide to a centennial's worth of fun and flying.
- By Roger A. Mola
- Air & Space magazine, March 2003
(Page 6 of 7)
NASA space flight history
www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/
First 100 human space flights
www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/hundred.htm
Milestones and great pilots of airmail history
www.airmailpioneers.org/history/milestone.html
Milestones as documented by PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/timeline/
Milestones in space exploration from Marshall Space Flight Center
history.msfc.nasa.gov/milestones/
The AIAA history of flight, as told in select images.
Categories include: Boeing Company, GE Aircraft Engines, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrop/Grumman, People, Raytheon, Rockets, Rockwell Collins, and Snecma.
gallery.flight100.org/
The history of Snecma aerospace engines since 1890
www.snecma.com/en/group/history/index.php
Online video gallery of select milestones in flight
www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/gallery3.htm
History of flight in images
www.flight-history.com/gal/
Russian aeronautical milestones since 1754
aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/Milestones.html
Chronology of Russian space technologies since 1901
www.russianspaceweb.com/chronology.html
Brief history and breakthroughs in rotorcraft
rwebs.net/avhistory/notsofam/rotorcra.htm
A more scholarly look at milestones in rotorcraft
www.enae.umd.edu/AGRC/Aero/history.html
PBS programming on the history of the balloon
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/history.html
History of the windtunnel, beginning with whirling arm machines of the 1700s
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/WindTunnel/history.html
Naval Aviation since World War One
www.history.navy.mil/branches/ww1av.htm
Military aircraft designs that failed
rwebs.net/avhistory/notsofam/failures.htm
History/milestones of airfoil development
www.desktopaero.com
Significant air crashes
web.mit.edu
The ten deadliest air crashes
www.news-record.com/ae/firstflight/10wright22.htm
One Century of Aviation with Air France, and other titles
www.aeroplanebooks.com/airline_pg1.htm
One selection of the 50 greatest aircraft
www.whom.co.uk/squelch/bb_aviate.htm
Air records as reported by CNN
fyi.cnn.com/2002/US/07/01/air.records/
Curtiss-Wright story of first airplane engines and propellers
www.curtisswright.com/history/1901-1920.asp
Milestones in Alaskan flight
www.75th.com/
Black pioneers in aviation, and photo gallery
www.babpa.com/history.html
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