• Wright Airplanes

The Wright Brothers

The original Wright Brothers 1903 flyer	Biplane
World War II Messerschmitt	Stealth
Space Shuttle
International Space Station	Space Station Mir

The Future?
E.T.
Space Station (from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)	Enterprise Starship(from Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Aviation

• Aviation Education (Federal Aviation Administration)
• Charting the Next Century of Flight

• Learning to Fly: The Wright Brothers Adventure
  Activity Book
• NASA Celebrates A Century of Powered Flight
• Re-Living the Wright Way
• Wright Brothers (National Aeronautcis and Space Administration)

Richard E. Byrd, Jr., Rear Admiral First to fly over the North Pole, 1926 First to fly over the South POle, 1929

Charles Lindbergh First Non-Stop Solo Flight From New York To Paris, 1927

Amelia Earhart First Woman To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic, 1932 First Pilot To Fly Solo Hawaii To California, 1935

Yuri Gagarin First Man in Space, 1961

Lawrence Sperry Inventor of the Autopilot Turn and Bank Indicator and Parachute Pack

Aeronautical Pioneers

• Time Magazine, July 25, 1969 cover of Neil Armstrong

• History of Parachutes

• Alone on the Ice (from PBS' The American Experience )
• Byrd Polar Research Center (Ohio State University)
• Gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery
• North Pole Expedition, 1926
• Papers of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd (Ohio State University)
• Time Magazine, August 20, 1928 cover of Richard Byrd

• Curtiss-Wright Corporation
  • History
  • Further Reading
• Glenn H. Curtiss: Founder of the American Aviation Industry
• Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
• Time Magazine, October 13, 1924 cover of Glenn H. Curtiss

• American Memory Collection (from the Library of Congress)
  • Keyword Search (type "earhart" and get 71 hits)
• Amelia Earhart(from the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum )
• Birthplace Museum
• Earhart Information Pertaining to Her Last Flight (from the Navy's Naval Historical Center)
• FOIA: Amelia Earhart (from the Federal Bureau of Investigations)
• Timeline (from The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots )

• Yuri Gagarin: His Life in Pictures (from Russian Archives Online)
• Obituary (from New York Times)
• Time Magazine, April 21, 1961 cover of Yuri Gagarin
• Timeline (from Astronautix.com)

Sputnik First Artificial Satellite

Apollo 11 Crew Commander Neil A. Armstrong (First Man to Walk on the Moon) Command Module pilot Michael Collins Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr

Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot First to Fly Faster than the Speed of Sound

• American Memory Collection (from the Library of Congress)
  • Keyword Search (type "lindbergh" and get 118 hits)
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Charles Lindbergh -- Associated Objects
• Flyer, The (from Time Magazine's Time 100 Heroes & Icons )
• Lindbergh (from PBS' The American Experience )
• Lindbergh Foundation
• Time Magazine Covers of Charles Lindbergh

• Exhibitions
• Golden Age of Flight
• Pioneers of Flight
• Women in Aviation and Space History
• Wright Brothers: The Invention of the Aerial Age, The

• Biography
• Harriet Quimby (from PBS' The American Experience's

• Biography

• 1991 Interview ( Academy of Achivement )
• Obituary

• Helicopter and Igor Sikorsky, The (via About.com)
• Igor Sikorsky Historical Archives
• Time Magazine, November 16, 1953 cover

• North Carolina General Assembly's Senate Resolution Honoring Charles Edward Taylor

• Militirazation of the WASPs

• Brigadier General Chuck Yeager's Biography
• Photo Gallery (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
• Time Magazine, April 18, 1949 cover of Chuck Yeager
• World War II Ace and Test Pilot

• Apollo XI 35th Anniversary, 1969 - 2004
• Challenger Disaster 15th Anniversary
• Space Shuttle Columbia Accident February 1, 2003