Records Relating to Amelia Earhart
The Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center has placed the following records relating to Amelia Earhart on microfilm. […]
Air Capital Aviation Report: Special Edition for 5/11/08
Bombardier and Cessna news […]
Amelia Earhart Information
Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her flying career began in Los Angeles in 1921 when, at age 24, she took flying lessons from Neta Snook and bought her first airplane– a Kinner Airstar. […]
U.S. AIR FORCE TEST PILOT SCHOOL HISTORY
The fundamental key to success in aerospace flight test and evaluation is the individual member of the flight test team: the flight test pilot, of course, but nowadays the trained flight test engineer and navigator as well. […]
Otto Lilienthal – Aviation Education Pioneer Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8, 9-12 […]
WHAT IF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS HAD PRANGED ON DECEMBER 14, 1903?
It is fitting that the Wrights have at last received the recognition that they truly deserve in the many celebrations around the world on the 100th anniversary of their first flight. They were unquestioned geniuses in aviation whose true importance has only belatedly been recognized. […]
F/A-18 HORNET and F/A-18 SUPER HORNET
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet traces its direct ancestry to the Northrop Cobra, a twin engine multimission fighter design developed for the export market in the late 1960s. […]
U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet: AMELIA EARHART
Perhaps the most well-known of all female aviators, Amelia Earhart was introduced to aviation history in 1928 as a mere passenger aboard the Friendship, a Fokker tri-motor. […]
Glenn Curtiss – Aviation Education Pioneer Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8, 9-12 […]
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
It is impossible not to admire the early engineering and scientific achievements of the Wright Brothers. Yet, it is only fair to note that in the next seven years, the Wrights did almost as much to set aviation back as they had done to bring it forward. […]