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1927 "Elinor Smith, 16, who will use the Waco plane beside which she is standing in an attempt to set a new altitude record for women. She will also act as co-pilot for George A. Weis, who will take up a Stinson-Detroiter in a new flight endurance attempt." Smith was nicknamed "The Flying Flapper of Freeport."

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c. 1930 Hélène Boucher Boucher (1908-1934), French aviator. Boucher held a number of women's speed records before her death in a crash.

 

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c. 1930 Maryse Hilsz (1901-1946), French aviator. Hilsz gained a reputation for flights of endurance. Together with Amelia Earhart, in 1933 she was awarded joint "Woman of the Year" by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. During WWII she was a member of the French Resistance.

 

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c. 1930 Maryse Bastiè (1898-1952) and Gilda de Bankford. Bastié's fascination with flight began when she married a WWI pilot. Her husband died in a plane crash in 1926. She supported herself through aerial acrobatics, later buying her own plane. She rose to the rank of Captain in the French Air Force, and was herself killed in an air crash.

 

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c. 1935 English aviatrix Amy Johnson (1903-1941) shown at a landing in Berlin. She was the first woman to make a solo flight from London to Australia in 1930.

 

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July 4, 1933 "Amelia Earhart, first lady of aviation, is shown immediately after she landed her Lockheed Vega plane at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport, July 2, after completing a transcontinental flight from the East. Miss Earhart failed to qualify, due to delays encountered on her flight. She said it was the most hazardous trip she had ever made. The crowd gave her a tremendous ovation as she brought her ship to the ground, during the second day's events of the National Air Races."

 

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[BGCOLOR=pink]Tenía una foto de una de las mejores aviadoras de todos los tiempos, la grecoargentina Vicky Xipolitakis, pero por respeto y por pudor no la subí...!!! "Pilota" de jets...!!![/BGCOLOR] bbufon

 

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1932: Official Opening of Portsmouth Airport

 

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1956-1961: The Ryan Vertiplane (seven pictures:

 

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1959: Model of a Project Mercury capsule in a spin tunnel

 

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Lo insólito de esta publicidad de cigarrillos es el motivo de le edición especial...!!!

 

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1932: "avión con cabina desmontable : de la fuerza aérea de los EE. UU"

 

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1941 - 1945: 90th Bomb Group “The Jolly Rogers”

 

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P-40 Warhawks 80th fighter group.

 

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Mar. 6, 1969 Apollo 9 Command/Service Modules (CSM), nicknamed "Gumdrop," and Lunar Module (LM), nicknamed "Spider," are shown docked together as Command Module Pilot David R. Scott stands in the open hatch. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, took this photograph of Scott during his EVA as he stood on the porch outside the Lunar Module. Apollo 9 was an Earth orbital mission designed to test docking procedures between the CSM and LM, as well as test fly the Lunar Module in the relative safe confines of Earth orbit.

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Sep. 16, 1995

The pale blue Earth serves as backdrop for astronaut Michael Gernhardt during his Extravehicular Activity (EVA). He is standing on a Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR) attached to the Remote Manipulator System (RMS). He is positioned over the Payload Bay, and Endeavour's forward section is reflected in his visor. A thermal cube is attached to the RMS and records temperatures during spacesuit evaluations. Unlike earlier spacewalking astronauts, Gernhardt was able to use an electronic cuff checklist, a prototype developed for the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS).

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Dec. 3, 1997 Mission Specialist Winston Scott, as seen from inside orbiter Columbia, conducts the second Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on mission STS-87.

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Sept. 16, 1994 Astronauts Carl J. Meade and Mark C. Lee (red stripe on suit) test the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system some 130 nautical miles from Earth. The pair were actually performing an in-space rehearsal or demonstration of a contingency rescue using the never- before-flown hardware. Meade, who here wears the small backpack unit with its complementary chest-mounted control unit, and Lee, anchored to Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robot arm, took turns using the SAFER hardware during their shared space walk.

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Dec. 3, 1997 Mission Specialist Takao Doi conducts the second Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on mission STS-87. He waves at crew members inside Columbia from the aft Payload Bay windows.

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Nov. 14, 1984 Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign referring to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6, that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft.

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