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Aviation Heritage

The stories behind the skill.

Primary-sourced histories of the aircraft, people, and moments that shaped how we fly — each one a short read that ties back to a skill you use today.

250 cards

Era
Category
Heritage
HistoryModern

"medium-altitude endurance"

The MQ-1 Predator: The Garage Genius Who Changed War Forever
Story in review
Heritage
HistoryModern

"August 20, 1998"

The Aerosonde Laima: A Robot Crosses the Atlantic
Story in review
Heritage
HistoryModern

"May 14, 2013"

The Northrop Grumman X-47B: The Navy's Robotic Tailless Wing
Story in review
Heritage
HistoryWWII

" Ground controllers began telling pilots to "

Squawk Codes: The Bird That Answers Back
Story in review
Heritage
HistoryModern

"300 feet"

The Checklist: Born in Flames
Story in review
Heritage
HistoryModern

"Resource Management on the Flightdeck,"

CRM: When the Cockpit Became a Crew
Story in review
Heritage
LoreModern

" a slow trainer was a "

Aviation Slang: The Language of the Hangar
Story in review
Heritage
LoreTimeless

"20 miles"

Words in the Wind: Four Voices from the Sky
Story in review
Heritage
LoreModern

"When the altimeter reads forty thousand and the flak is r..."

Superstitions: Charms Against the Void
Story in review
Heritage
LoreTimeless

"Upside-Down"

Barnstormers: The Flying Circus
Story in review
Heritage
LoreTimeless

"The first solo flight is an event "which forever remains ..."

The Shirttail Solo: A Rite of Passage
Story in review
Heritage
LoreModern

"Farnborough, by contrast, was a postwar child"

The Heritage of Airshows — From Paris to Farnborough
Story in review
Heritage
LoreJet Age

"By the late 1950s, the convention had outgrown Milwaukee ..."

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh — The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceSpace Age

"On 31 October 2000, from the same launch pad at Baikonur ..."

A Home in the Void — Expedition 1, October 2000–March 2001
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceSpace Age

"117 seconds"

Apollo 17: The Last Man on the Moon
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"5 feet"

Opening the Eye on the Cosmos — Hubble Deployment, STS-31, 24 April 1990
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"563 miles"

Return to the Deep — Artemis I, 16 November 2022
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"35 hours"

Surgeons in Space — Hubble Servicing Mission 1, STS-61, 2 December 1993
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"The morning of 28 January 1986 was bitterly cold at Kenne..."

The Challenger Tragedy — STS-51-L, 28 January 1986
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"The year 2003 had been anticipated as a centennial celebr..."

The Columbia Loss — STS-107, 1 February 2003
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"64 days"

The Dragon Returns — SpaceX Demo-2, 30 May 2020
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"307 days"

The Final Bow — STS-135, Atlantis, 8–21 July 2011
Story in review
Heritage
SpaceModern

"The largest international construction project in history..."

The First Links — Zarya and Unity, November–December 1998
Story in review
Heritage
AircraftTimeless

"I hate to quit, the airplane is a delight to fly."

Boeing 737 — The Universal Jet
Story in review
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