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Ryan employees send the Spirit off to St Louis Lindbergh in jodhpurs is third from right Donald Hall second

Donald Hall's 1927 rush job.
July 2011 | By Tom Leech

Jack Finney

Back in 1951, sci-fi author Jack Finney had a few questions for the Smithsonian, like: How exactly would someone break in?
March 24, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

May 2011 | By J.R. Dailey

During World War II, Navy Commander Paul Garber developed a target kite (bearing the silhouette of a Japanese aircraft) for U.S. Navy ship-to-air gunnery practice.

Paul Garber: Eyewitness to History
May 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Crew chief Dick Lofland, left, with pilot Bob Ferry before the record-setting flight.

May 2011 | By Don Porter

Media coverage of the Bay of Pigs fiasco was unbridled. Far right: the narrator, as a staff sergeant in the Alabama Air National Guard in the 1950s.

Mission: Cuba. Status: Top secret.
May 2011 | By James Storie

A Boeing 767-300 lands on Los Angeles International Airport’s runway 25L.

Think of it as a crash course in aeronautical trivia.
May 2011 | By The Editors

<i>Ciao!</i> Italy’s military precision jet team, Frecce Tricolori (“Tricolor Arrows”), makes its first visit to North America with performances on August 2 and 3 at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 34th Fly-in Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The

The year we were born.
May 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

<b>Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a</b> Its initials stand for Scout Experimental, but the S.E.5a was one of the most effective fighters of World War I. At about 135 mph, it was faster than most airplanes it came up against and was flown by four of the Unite

25 years later, it's a complicated relationship.
May 2011 | By The Editors

Just months after Lieutenant Paul Beck made an early airborne radio transmission, aviators test a receiving set - with the airplane

When radio communication took to the air.
March 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

A less-than-dignified descent and landing.

Adventures in Navy ballooning.
March 2011 | By Captain Marion Eppes, U.S. Navy (ret.)

Mary Groce

Emory Malick, the first African-American pilot, wasn't known to historians until recently.
March 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Left to right: Bill Malloska, the airplane’s owner; Augie Pedlar, pilot; Manley Lawling, navigator, later replaced by Vilas Knope; and Mildred Doran, in classic uniform.

A race across the Pacific.
March 2011 | By Richard A. Durose

John Bevins Moisant with his cat "Miss Paris" at the 1910 Gordon Bennett Race in New York.

The most celebrated American aviator of 1910 took up flying as an act of revenge.
December 30, 2010 | By Gavin Mortimer

A replica of Coanda

The story of a jet flight in 1910, just seven years after Kitty Hawk, may be too good to be true.
December 06, 2010 | By Frank H. Winter

John "Cat

John Cunningham's wartime nickname concealed a vital military secret—the invention of airborne radar.
November 19, 2010 | By Gavin Mortimer

Blended wing-body visionary James McDonnell sculpted the XP-67 in the early 1940s, promising a speed of more than 400 mph.

Man cannot zoom by blended wing alone; he must have an engine that, well, works.
January 2011 | By Stephan Wilkinson

CargoLifter built the world’s largest free-standing building, big enough to hold 14 Boeing 747s, for its prototype CL-75 airship.

The world's largest free-standing building gets a second lease on life.
January 2011 | By Roger A. Mola

In the Museum’s newly renovated Pioneers of Flight Gallery.

January 2011 | By Mary McKillop

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