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Remembering the Death of Lt. Joe Kennedy Jr. and America’s First Combat Drones

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. A drone B-17, seen a year after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, when it was being evaluated for use in sampling atomic clouds ...
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Communications Satellite, Mechanical Test Model, MicroSat

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Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830-92 Radial Engine

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Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1 Production Prototype Turbofan Engine

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft began development of its first production turbofan, the JT3D, in the late 1950s, by taking advantage of the service-proven JT3 (J57) gas generator, and adding a two-stage ...
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Rolls-Royce Avon Mk 28-49 Turbojet Engine

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V-2 Rocket Engine Combustion Chamber cutaway

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Bell XP-59A Airacomet

The XP-59A is the first American jet aircraft. It did not see combat but it did give the U. S. Army Air Forces (AAF) and the U. S. Navy valuable experience with jet aircraft technology and helped pave ...
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Boeing P-26A Peashooter

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McDonnell FH-1 Phantom I

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Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1a

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Douglas A4D-2N/A-4C Skyhawk

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Collection and Transfer Assembly, Urine, Apollo 11

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