Heritage"243 feet"
First Practical Controllable HelicopterAviation Heritage
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.
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Heritage"243 feet"
First Practical Controllable Helicopter
Heritage"000 feet"
First Transatlantic Balloon Flight
Heritage"16 feet"
First Circumnavigation by Balloon
Heritage"117 hours"
First Solar-Powered Round-the-World Flight
Heritage"1,074 women. 77 types of aircraft. And then they were told to go home."
WASP — The Women Who Flew Everything the Army Had
Heritage"She learned to fly in a Cessna 185 on floats. Then she became untouchable."
Patty Wagstaff — Three Times the Best in America
Heritage"They passed the same tests as Glenn. NASA said no anyway."
Mercury 13 — The Right Stuff, the Wrong Era
Heritage"She went to space with a Stanford PhD and a five-person crew."
Sally Ride — The Physicist Who Changed the Crew Quarters
Heritage"She called herself Chaika. The world called her history."
Valentina Tereshkova — The First Woman to Orbit Earth
Heritage"She flew from Dover to France in fog. The Titanic sank the next day."
Harriet Quimby — The Channel Crossing Nobody Saw
Heritage"On 16 January 1930, a 22-year-old Royal Air Force cadet n..."
The Jet Age Dawns: Whittle, Heinkel, and Junkers
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Transponders: The Electronic Beacon
Heritage"TCAS II, the fully capable version, issues two kinds of a..."
TCAS: The Guardian in the Cockpit
Heritage"On 18 June 1914, the banks of the Seine River near Paris ..."
The Autopilot: Lawrence Sperry and the Gyroscope's Promise
Heritage"Whitcomb's 1976 NASA Technical Note (TN D-8260) establish..."
Winglets and Laminar Flow: Taming the Wingtip Vortex
Heritage"In the summer of 1975, the Defense Advanced Research Proj..."
Stealth: The Geometry of Invisibility
Heritage"Easter Parade"
Operation Vittles: The Berlin Airlift
Heritage"gleam of hope"
D-Day Air Operations: The Sunday Punch in Normandy
Heritage"**THE FLIGHT** On 17 September 1944, three airborne div..."
Operation Market Garden: The Airborne Highway
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Heritage"the Wolf Pack"
Operation Bolo: The Wolf Pack's Deception
Heritage"000 miles"
Linebacker II: The B-52s Go to Hanoi
Heritage"**THE FLIGHT** On 17 January 1991, more than 1,100 USAF..."
Operation Desert Storm: The Air Campaign
Heritage"**THE FLIGHT** Beginning on the evening of 24 March 199..."
Operation Allied Force: NATO's Air War for Kosovo