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Italian Caproni bomber of World War I

B-29 bomber, 1945

Four U.S. Army P-51 Mustang fighter planes flying in close formation above the Italian countryside during World War II.

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The Martin P6M SeaMaster, a large jet-powered flying boat with swept wings and twin tail, marked with U.S. Navy insignia, flies above a patchwork of fields.

Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc

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Leroy Randle Grumman

American engineer

Dornier, Claudius

Claudius Dornier

German engineer

Sir Frederick Handley Page

Sir Frederick Handley Page

British aircraft designer

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Glenn L. Martin

American inventor

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Eugen Sänger

Austrian engineer

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Aleksey Andreyevich Tupolev

Russian aircraft designer

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.

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