Aviation History

The Apollo 11 astronauts see their wives for the first time after returning from the Moon, 1969.

Merry Christmas.

An Emirates A380 on a test flight over Germany, December 2017

Santa's North Pole Village Approach, RNAV, RW18

A recent Santa sighting.

Apollo 12 crew: Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean, 1969.

The 2019 Santa NOTAM had been issued advising of Santa's reckless and haphazard use of Aussie airspace.

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-56 mission, April 1993.

Very first issue of Time Person of the Year was published in 1927, featuring Charles Lindbergh. Back when it meant something.

On April 12, 1975 the U.S. government ran Operation Babylift, transporting hundreds of babies who had lost their Vietnamese parents during the war. The children were transferred to adoption centers in the U.S, Australia, France and Canada.

Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty, 1909.

At age 17, Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her seat and survived. She then had to endure a 9-day walk through the Amazon jungle before being rescued by loggers. She was the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 that killed 93 people in December 1971.⁠ ⁠.. #history #aviationhistory #stack [twitter: At age 17, Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an LANSA flight 508 after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her seat and survived, December 1971]

French aviator Charles Godefroy flies through Arc de Triomphe. Paris, 1919.

Park Avenue, New York, 1964.

A young cowboy and his pony walk along as a Concorde Supersonic Jet takes off at DFW-International Airport, 1973.

Douglas DC-4E aircraft flying over Manhattan, 1939.

Melbourne's Essendon Airport, c1928. Photographer: W. Raymond Garrett.