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Group at airplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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The NACA Exceptional Service Medal presented at the NACA High Speed Flight Station. L-R: Hugh Dryden

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Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane pilots. Washington, D.C., Oct. 10. An instrument which gives airplane pilots their height above the ground over which the plane is flying was demonstrated today to members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority by officials of the Western Electric Co. and the United Airlines. Claimed to be the first successful altimeter showing terrain clearance, the new device operates by radio, using the shortest wave ever employed for aviation, officials of the companies stated. In the photograph, left to right: Col. Sumter Smith, Peter C. Sandrette, Supt. of the United Airline's communication laboratory who was in charge of the demonstration; and Thomas Hardin. Smith and Hardin are members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, 101038

Weather technician, SENIOR AIRMAN Wes B. Robinson, 21st Operation Support Weather Squadron, prepares a pre-flight weather briefing. Using the latest in weather tracking computer and related equipment he is able to more accurately forecast the type of weather that pilots may encounter during their flying missions. He is participating in the 21st Space Wing's Operational Readiness Inspection that was conducted at Cheyenne Mountain Air Station and Peterson AFB, Colo., 13 to 17 February 1996. The Inspector General's Team tested their ability to respond to battle conditions, power outages, mobility deployments, aircraft and automobile accidents, hostage situations, bomb threats, armed robbery,...

US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) Steven Dreyer, Commander 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), performs a preflight check on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter in Lungi, Sierra Leone (SLE). The 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), is currently in Lungi, Sierra Leone (SLE) to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST) in Liberia (LBR)

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) David Gardner, 30th Mission Support Squadron (MSS), prepares for a deployment of over 170 personnel during the 30th Space Wing's (SW) Expeditionary Readiness Inspection (ERI) at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California (CA). For eight days members from the 30th SW were tasked with various exercises and real world events, which culminated in the wing receiving an Excellent on the operational inspection and Satisfactory for the expeditionary inspection

Aviation Warfare Systems Operator CHIEF PETTY Officer (AWC) Paul Schenk (left) and Aviation Warfare Systems Operator Secound Class (AW2) Steve Ayers (right), Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter crew chiefs, go through their final checks before taking off on a familiarization flight for exercise ROVING SANDS '97. The mission will include a search for Scud missile sites in the Alamogordo Bombing Range. The airmen and the helicopter are from the Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron, North Island, California, are participating in exercise ROVING SANDS as part of the Red force. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a...

U.S. Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN James Kempfer (left), Flight Engineer, CAPT. Eric Hendrikson (center), Aircraft Commander, and CAPT. J. B. Marshal (right), Co-Pilot, 36th Rescue Flight, 336th Training Group, Air Education and Training Command, conduct an aircrew mission brief on Oct. 1, 2004, prior to flying their UH-1N Huey ("Iroquois") light-lift utility, search and rescue helicopter to support the U.S. Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF SGT. Laura K. Smith) (Released)

A US Air Force (USAF) Air Mobility Command (AMC) C-17A Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 62nd Air Wing (AW), lands on the newly repaired runway at McChord, Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA). This C-17A, one of many aircraft scheduled to land today to help celebrate the newly repaired 10,100-foot flight line. Over 1,100 McChord Active-duty and Reserve Airmen returned today from deployment due to the shut down flight line

STAFF Sergeant Smith, an Air Force aircrew life support technician from the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, Diego Garcia, checks the oxygen regulator and mask on a KC-10A Extender refueler prior to take off during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Aircrew life support members check the instruments before and after each flight to ensure they are functioning properly. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad

US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) J.B. Bobbitt, a pilot assigned to the 429th Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS), Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, performs a pre-flight inspection before making a final flight to the US, in one of two EF-111A Raven aircraft from Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane pilots. Washington, D.C., Oct. 10. An instrument which gives airplane pilots their height above the ground over which the plane is flying was demonstrated today to members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority by officials of the Western Electric Co. and the United Airlines. Claimed to be the first successful altimeter showing terrain clearance, the new device operates by radio, using the shortest wave ever employed for aviation, officials of the companies stated. In the photograph, left to right: Col. Sumter Smith, Peter C. Sandrette, Supt. of the United Airline's communication laboratory who was in charge of the demonstration; and Thomas Hardin. Smith and Hardin are members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, 10/10/38

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A black and white photo of three men in suits.

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Airplanes and blimps above National Mall, Washington Monument, Potomac river and around.

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1938
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Aviators and Airplanes in DC

National Capital: The good old days of aviation
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[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-19466-05] African American History Celebration, in Dean Acheson Auditorium, [featuring performance by Morgan State University Choir, and remarks by guest speakers including: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Bernard LaFayette, Jr., 1960's civil rights leader, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island; Dorothy Height, long-time civil rights and women's rights activist, President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women; and Romeo Crennel, head coach of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns... [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State] [59-CF-DS-19466-05_DSC_1809.JPG]

Informs President SEC ready to proceed with investigation of insurance companies. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving the White House today after reporting to President Roosevelt that the commission was ready to proceed with its investigation of insurance companies in connection with the present monopoly inquiry. He indicated the SEC would be concerned primarily with the investment and managerial phases of insurance company operation and said approximately $300,000 would be required to carry out the work in this calendar year, 1/24/38

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Information Photograph

Probably the smallest plane in the world. Built by Edw. F. Allen of Wash, D.C., who was formerly test pilot for Army Air Service during the world war. Plane is equipped with 9 horsepower motorcycle engine and weighs only 205 lbs. with wing spread of 27 ft. Mr. Allen, in cockpit, flies it often and recently attained height of 1800 ft. capable of making 63 mph

MASTER Sergeant Johnny Bartosh of the 317th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, chains down an MH-60G Pave Hawk on a ramp as Technical Sergeant Tony McGuire of the 305th Rescue Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, checks for clearance between the top of the helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster III aircraft

Flight crew performs preflight checks in the flight station of a P-8A Poseidon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft/ Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)

A black and white photo of a man in a straw hat, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

Beechcraft : 34 : Twin Quad, Space and Aviation museum SDASM

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-19466-05] African American History Celebration, in Dean Acheson Auditorium, [featuring performance by Morgan State University Choir, and remarks by guest speakers including: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Bernard LaFayette, Jr., 1960's civil rights leader, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island; Dorothy Height, long-time civil rights and women's rights activist, President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women; and Romeo Crennel, head coach of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns... [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State] [59-CF-DS-19466-05_DSC_1825.JPG]

Harshberger, Peter C - Age [Blank], Year: 1861 - Miscellaneous Card Abstracts of Records - West Virginia

A member of the air station's operations department stands by to direct a chartered airliner as it taxis after landing. Aboard the airliner are dependents who had been evacuated from the air station and the nearby Subic Bay naval station during the eruption of Mount Pinatubo

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