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Science News // 1 decade ago

NASA to debut 50th anniversary art book

The U.S space agency says it will celebrate its 50th anniversary next month by releasing "NASA/ART -- 50 years of Exploration."

Science News // 1 decade ago

Supersonic flight pioneer to be honored

U.S. aeronautics engineer Richard Whitcomb, whose research made supersonic flight possible, is to be inducted into the First Flight Shrine.

Top News // 2 decades ago

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Science News // 2 decades ago

Flight Century: The brothers from Dayton

One hundred years ago, human transportation changed forever, the change borne on wings crafted by two brothers from Dayton, Ohio.

Science News // 2 decades ago

2002 Yearend: Toward a century of flight

Nearly a century ago, two brothers took turns piloting their propeller-driven Wright Flyer into the air down a windswept North Carolina hill, achieving what researchers have concluded was the first controlled flight of a powered aircraft in human history.

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Dick Whitcomb's intellectual fingerprints are on virtually every commercial aircraft flying today
Supersonic flight pioneer to be honored Dec 12, 2007

They started with the experts in flight -- the birds
Flight Century: The brothers from Dayton Feb 15, 2003

Before Orville and Wilbur, people were saying, 'If God had intended us to fly, he would have given us wings,
2002 Yearend: Toward a century of flight Dec 17, 2002

He had watched his high school friends go off and get married, go to college, and I think it's pretty clear from his letters that he was looking for a challenge and a way to prove himself to himself and others
2002 Yearend: Toward a century of flight Dec 17, 2002

In the fall and winter of 1901, they not only measured wind foils, they measured the shape of the wing itself
2002 Yearend: Toward a century of flight Dec 17, 2002