Milestones in Flight

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:16AM
Greg Jones in Aviation, Aviation, HDR, HDR, Museum, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Spacecraft, Spacecraft, Travel, Washington DC, Washington DC

So much history in just one photo. From left to right are:

Charles Lindberg's "The Spirit of St. Louis" which was the first aircraft to fly solo from New York to Paris.

Scaled Composites "Space Ship One" which is a rocket powered aircraft that made the first privately funded space flight.

Bell Aircraft's X-1 rocket plane in which US Air Force pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager first exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.

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