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AEA June BugAmerican aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss flying the AEA June Bug at Hammondsport, N.Y., on July 4, 1908, a feat that won the Scientific American Trophy for the first public flight of at least 1 km (0.6 mile) with an American airplane.
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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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Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
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