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Remembering the Death of Lt. Joe Kennedy Jr. and America’s First Combat Drones

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. A drone B-17, seen a year after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, when it was being evaluated for use in sampling atomic clouds ...
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Boeing P-26A Peashooter

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Socks, Slipper, Space Shuttle

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Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher

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Collection and Transfer Assembly, Urine, Apollo 11

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Sopwith F.1 Camel

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North American F-86A Sabre

America's first swept-wing jet fighter, the F-86 Sabre joined the ranks of great fighter aircraft during combat operations high above the Yalu River in Korea. Even though they could not pursue the ...
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V-2 Rocket Engine Combustion Chamber cutaway

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Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1 Production Prototype Turbofan Engine

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft began development of its first production turbofan, the JT3D, in the late 1950s, by taking advantage of the service-proven JT3 (J57) gas generator, and adding a two-stage ...
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Award, Statue, MTV Video Music Awards, blank

This MTV "Moonman" statuette is the trophy given during the music television network's annual Video Music Awards. When Music Television (MTV) began in 1981, the new network about music, attitude, mood ...
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Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1a

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Kinner K-5, Radial 5 Engine

Kinner Motors, Inc. succeeded California’s Kinner Airplane and Motor Corporation, first experimenting with the three cylinder K-1 in 1921, and then producing the five-cylinder K-2 in 1927. In 1928, ...