Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt entered the U.S. Air Force in 1992, earning her commission as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program. Leavitt was initially denied her request to fly the ...

D2.His.16.6-8. Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.

The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award has recognized the notable achievements in the field of aviation safety, to include civil or military, in method, design, invention, study or other improvement ...

This collection consists of 15 black and white negatives, photographs created by photographer Percy Trenchard Jones of Orville Wright testing the Wright (Brothers) 1911 Glider at Kitty Hawk, North ...

Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins wore this shirt on the STS-93 Space Shuttle mission in 1999, making history as the first woman to command a U.S. spaceflight mission. Except during launch, reentry, ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

One Chinese phrase book in addition to eight manuals issued to Civil Air Patrol Members in 1944 and 1945, believed to come from Base #19 in Portland, ME. Biographical / Historical The Civil Air Patrol ...

This collection consists of a photo album containing 23 photographs, probably taken during the rollout and initial taxiing and flight tests of the original Dornier Do X on July 12, 1929. Biographical ...

Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted by Joint Army/Navy Task Force One in the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This collection consists ...

This famous firm began manufacturing automobiles in 1898 at Billancourt, France, completing its first aircraft engine in 1908, a four cylinder water-cooled, in-line type. In 1917, Renault began ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

The aircraft from which this fabric was cut was reportedly a combat victory of Captain John W. Signer of the 88th Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service (USAAS). The combat occurred on 22 ...