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Eight men in jackets and aviation goggles in front of aircraft
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Tuskegee Airmen

Orville and Wilbur Wright
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The Wright Brothers

Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief, and Piper Cub
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What is General Aviation?

The dark blue P-51D Man O War plane races through the sky alongside Pretty Polly, a P-63C plane with a grey fuselage and blue-striped wings.
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Air Racing

Specialists third class Nora Scott and Virginia Chenoweth
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Air Traffic Control

Painting
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World War I

Air Mail Envelope
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Air Mail

Amelia Earhart sits inside the cockpit of an aircraft. She is wearing an aviator hat and goggles.
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Amelia Earhart

Vanguard 1 Satellite Model
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Communications Satellites

A jet aircraft emerging from a cone shaped cloud of vapor in the air.
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Speed

Barrage Balloons at Normandy
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World War II

Black and white American Airlines travel brochure promoting the airline following World War II. The brochure features an image of two people and a pilot looking at a large globe.
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Commercial Aviation at Mid-Century

A view of the America by Air gallery. Several large airplanes are suspended from the ceiling with smaller airplanes on the ground.
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Early Commercial Aviation

Hawaiian Airlines Stewardesses
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Flight Attendants

A sepia tone photograph, in the foreground are fashionably dressed people from the early 1900s, in the background are hot air balloons.
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Flight Before the Airplane

Security
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Governing Flight

Air Mail Pilot's Knee Board and Map
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How Did Air Mail Pilots Find Their Way?

Wall Slide
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Innovative People in Early Flight