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Learn about air racing.
During the Great Depression, enthusiasts took easily available technologies and built
Learn about air racing.
During the Great Depression, enthusiasts took easily available technologies and built
The Pioneers of Flight gallery preview.
airshows and barnstorming events, pastimes that drew enthusiastic crowds even amid the Depression
By 1937 the Depression was taking its toll on Monocoupe.
Dramatic landscapes of the Moon captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC).
Caption Young Lava Flows Smooth volcanic flows cover the floor of this shallow depression
With the deep Depression years of the 1930s and then World War II, further development
commercially disastrous as his new autogiro venture coincided with the advent of the Great Depression
PCA-2 would prove to be a popular aircraft in spite of the fact that the Great Depression
manufacturers of Autogiros, Pitcairn and Kellett, both embattled survivors of the Great Depression
Astronauts headed to Mars and beyond won’t be able to depend on Earth for a quick response in the event of a medical emergency.
drugs to treat space adaptation syndrome (vomiting is no fun for anyone involved), depression
This past September, the National Championship Air Races took a final lap in the Reno, Nevada venue.
Spitfire and Merlin of World War II, is a perfect example.� During the Great Depression