RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1918, Katherine Johnson was born. As a mathematician who calculated trajectories for some of NASA’s most important…
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RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1929, Louise Thaden—one of America's most captivating aeronautical record-setters—registered a women's solo endura…
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RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1933, Boeing delivered the first modern airliner, a 247 monoplane, to United Airlines. With its sleek, low-wing, all…
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RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1934, Laura Ingalls became the first US woman to fly over the Andes solo. Ingalls was a highly successful pilot, and…
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RT @airandspace: #TDIH in 1927: Charles Lindbergh took the pilot seat of the Spirit of St. Louis and flew the history-making aircraft for t…
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RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to take a solo hop into the air. The 40-foot hop…
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RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Harriet Quimby—the first American woman to earn a pilot's license—became the first woman to fly solo…
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RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Helene Dutrieu, also known as the "girl hawk" of aviation, became the first Belgian woman to receive…
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RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Matilde Moisant flew to a height of 1,200 feet in her Blériot XI type monoplane at Nassau Boulevard A…
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RT @airandspace: 125 Yrs Ago Today: Bessie Coleman, the first African American to receive a pilot's license, was born: https://t.co/4vGnzzZ…
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RT @airandspace: 17-year-old aviator Elinor Smith established a women's endurance record in late January 1929 with a 13-hour 16-minute flig…
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RT @airandspace: 35 year ago today, the Airbus A320 made its first flight. Featuring a glass cockpit with a unique side-stick controller to…
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RT @airandspace: 55 years ago today, Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock departed in Cessna 180 "Spirit of Columbus" on a flight that would make her th…
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RT @airandspace: 60 Years Ago Today: First flight of a production version of the Boeing 707. Prototype 367-80 "Dash" in our collection: htt…
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RT @airandspace: 60 years ago today, Jacqueline Cochran set a new speed record for women, flying the Museum's Northrop T-38 Talon. Learn mo…
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RT @airandspace: 90 Years Ago Today: City of Medford presented this silver trophy to Amelia Earhart in recognition of her trans-Atlantic fl…
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RT @airandspace: 95 Yrs Ago Today: 1st transcontinental airmail flight takes off from New York to San Francisco.
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RT @airandspace: 95 years ago today, Charles Lindbergh flew from San Diego to New York in 21 hours and 40 minutes. The feat set a new trans…
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RT @airandspace: Aerospace Power Couple: Willa Brown was the first African American woman to earn both a pilot's license and a commercial l…
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RT @airandspace: After silent film actress Lee Ya-Ching earned her pilot's license in the 1930s, she returned to China to promote civil avi…
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RT @airandspace: Alverna Babbs was the first American pilot with disabilities to earn a pilot’s license. Babbs lost both legs as a child an…
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RT @airandspace: Aviation was booming in Wichita, Kansas, in the early 1920s and Francis Dawson Bowhan (of Osage heritage) was at the heart…
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