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In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 ('aitch-oh-two-two-nine') promised spectacular performance and the German air force (Luftwaffe) chief, Hermann Göring, allocated half-a-million ...

The National Air and Space Museum's F6F-3 Hellcat, BuNo. 41834, was built at Grumman's Bethpage, New York, factory in February 1944 under contract NOA- (S)846. It was delivered to the Navy on February ...

By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, Corsair pilots had amassed an 11:1 kill ratio against enemy aircraft. The aircraft's distinctive inverted gull-wing design allowed ground clearance for the huge, ...

This small exhibit featured historic Transformers toys, aviation and Jetfire-related characters, and props used in the major motion picture Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a portion of which was ...

Physical Description Davis recoilless gun consisting of rifled steel tube barrel with hand grip and tiggers for firing both main round and Lewis gun, shoulder rest, and U-shaped support for post mount ...

A selection of well-known and world-renowned air and space artifacts currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. You can also view a full list of objects on display.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the Cockburn-Lange hoax. The material includes the photos used in the book, as well as correspondence and journal articles detailing Grosz and Schneide's ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The ...

Explore the stories of innovative individuals who contributed to early flight at the National Air and Space Museum.

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Alan Shepard became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile), 15-minute suborbital flight.