The Gee Bee R-1 Super Sportster (also known as the GB Sportster), sometimes nicknamed The Flying Silo due to the short, fat fuselage resembling that sort of farm storage building, was a special purpose racing aircraft made by Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts. Gee Bee stands ...

The Gee Bee R-1 Super Sportster (also known as the GB Sportster), sometimes nicknamed The Flying Silo due to the short, fat fuselage resembling that sort of farm storage building, was a special purpose racing aircraft made by Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts. Gee Bee stands ...

The Lockheed L-10 Electra was a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2.

The Electra was Lockheed's first all-metal and twin-engine design.

Aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared in a highly-mod...

The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very long-ranged design. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic single handed in one, and ...

The Space Shuttle Orbiter is the orbital vehicle of the Space Shuttle. It is a reusable winged "spaceplane", a mixture of rocket, spacecraft, and aircraft. The orbiter launches crew and payload into Earth orbit, performing on-orbit operations, then re-enters the atmosphere and lands like a glider to...

The Space Shuttle Orbiter is the orbital vehicle of the Space Shuttle. It is a reusable winged "spaceplane", a mixture of rocket, spacecraft, and aircraft. The orbiter launches crew and payload into Earth orbit, performing on-orbit operations, then re-enters the atmosphere and lands like a glider to...

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbite...

Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before disintegrating 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission,...

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbite...

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbite...

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbite...