The Tricolor with a French flag themed balloon ascension in Paris, June 6th 1874. Original from Library of Congress.… Free Image from public domain license 
Electric Helical Aerostat Driven in the Air by Albert and Gaston Tissandier. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally… Free Image from public domain license 
C-141 (NASA-714) Kuipter Airborne Observatory in flight, telescope hatch open. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by… Free Image from public domain license 
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An ER-2 high-altitude Earth science aircraft banks away during a flight over the southern Sierra Nevada. Original from NASA .… Free Image from public domain license 
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The F-16XL #1 (NASA 849) takes off for the first flight of the Digital Flight Control System (DFCS) on December 16, 1997.… Free Image from public domain license 
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Le Premier Parachute de Jacques Garnerin, Essaye par lui-Meme au Parc de Mousseaux, le 22 Octobre 1797 by an unknown artist.… Free Image from public domain license 
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Descent of the balloon Neptune in the cliffs of Cap Gris-Nez baloon trip in Calais by Albert Tissandier. Original from… Free Image from public domain license 
Mr. Henri Giffard’s Steam Captive Balloon by the artist Albert Tissandier (1839-1906). Original from Library of… Free Image from public domain license 
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Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying career… Free Image from public domain license 
Poyang Lake, which was once China's largest freshwater lake. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Free Image from public domain license 
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X-3, and clockwise from left: X-1A, D-558-I, XF-92A, X-5, D-558-II, and X-4. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by… Free Image from public domain license 
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NACA X-Planes on South Base ramp. Northrop X-4, Bell X-1, Bell X-5, Douglas D-558-1, Douglas D-558-2. Back row Convair XF… Free Image from public domain license 
Early NACA research aircraft on the lakebed at the High Speed Research Station in 1955. Original from NASA. Digitally… Free Image from public domain license 
Le Ballon by Imprimeur E. Pichot. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Free Image from public domain license 
NASA Ames Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS); T-Cab Civil Tilt Rotor Project (CTR) OTW (out the window) composite views.… Free Image from public domain license 
Wing chord extension on D-558-2. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Free Image from public domain license 
Mourvaison printed in 1910, by Jules Troncy (1855-1915), a vintage lithograph of fresh cluster of grapes. Digitally enhanced… Free Image from public domain license 
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The Navy's Vought XF8U-3 Supersonic Fighter, Navy aircraft number 6340, on runway. June-August 1959. Original from NASA.… Free Image from public domain license 
Auguste Lanteigne proposes a system of airship navigation utilizing a series of 16 balloons on a single keel. Original from… Free Image from public domain license 
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Directions of Balloons (Addison system), design by Annibal Ardisson (?-1886), a proposal of a system to navigate the… Free Image from public domain license 
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Lockheed ER-2 #809 cockpit. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Free Image from public domain license 
NASA's Ikhana unmanned science demonstration aircraft over the U.S. Borax mine, Boron, California. Original from NASA .… Free Image from public domain license 
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Cuban Macaw, Ara tricolor from Natural History of Parrots (1801—1805) by Francois Levaillant. Original from the… Free Image from public domain license 
Illusion (L'Estampe Moderne) (1897) by Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery–Desfontaines. Original from The MET Museum.… Free Image from public domain license 
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Small Frigate Bird (Attagen Ariel) illustrated by Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841) for John Gould’s (1804-1881) Birds… Free Image from public domain license 
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