By Lockheed Martin
Taken on: March 29, 2013
Location: Edwards Air Force Base, California
Tag Archives: Airplane
SunRise In The Office
By Karim Nafatni
Taken: Oct 9, 2012
Mikoyan MIG-29 Fulcrum
By Jim Lucas
Nation: Poland
Taken on: July 7, 2012
Fury
By Tyler
Taken on: June 16, 2012
Endeavour
The space shuttle Endeavour,fresh from the STS-126 mission and mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, flies over California’s Mojave Desert on a three-day trip back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008.
First Flight With The Wright Brothers
National Aviation Day, a holiday established by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939 to celebrate developments in aviation. The date selected was the birth date of aviation pioneer Orville Wright, who, along with his older brother Wilbur, is credited with inventing and building the world’s first practical fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained flight more than a hundred years ago.
1st Photo: Wilbur Wright pilots a full-size glider down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on October 10, 1902. This model was the third iteration of the Wright brothers’ early gliders, equipped with wings that would warp to steer, a rear vertical rudder, and a forward elevator. (Library of Congress)
To view the remaining 17 photo’s: The Atlantic
Luftwaffe ’46 (II)
A pair of annular-wing, ducted propeller interceptors patrol at 10.000 m searching for IR signals of incoming heavy bombers.
By Jose Garcia