Pan American Airways (Pan Am) Flight Memorabilia [Piloty]
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- Creators:
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Piloty, Elisabeth, b. 1924
- Dates:
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1951
- Size:
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0.02 Cubic feet (1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0041
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of memorabilia relating to Elisabeth Piloty's flight aboard a Pan American Airways (Pan Am) Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser from Frankfurt, Germany to New York in August 1951.
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- Dates:
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1977
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2016.0027
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of nine postal covers commemorating the 50th anniversary of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927 and the following good will tour.
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Coffyn, Frank, 1878-1960
- Dates:
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bulk 1910-1917
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0641
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a series of 68 "Field Reports" completed by Frank T. Coffyn logging flight activities of Wright (Brothers) aircraft, for the period from May 5, 1910, through February 24, 1911
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Jarecki, Franciszek, 1931-
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2002.0022
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one Polish Air Force pilot's certificate; one pilot grade certificate; one copy of LIFE Magazine, dated April 6, 1953, featuring an article by Jarecki on his flight; on copy of This Week Magazine for August 23, 1953, with Jarecki's flight as cover story; one photocopied article from the Erie Daily Times, September 30, 1985; one photograph of a meeting of businessmen in the White House's Oval Office that includes Jarecki; one photograph of Frank Jarecki, Francis S. Gabreski, and James H. Doolittle; and the front page of the New York Times, dated March 6, 1953, matted on cardboard.
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United States. Navy
- Dates:
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1961
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0024
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of twenty-one U.S. Navy photographs compiled for the press kit prepared for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission as well as a teletype news article about the recovery.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Langley Research Center
- Dates:
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1964-1972
- Size:
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5.85 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0104
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The supercritical wing concept was developed by Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Whitcomb's airfoil was designed to delay formation of shock waves at high speeds.
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- Dates:
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1990-1991
- Size:
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0.58 cu. ft. (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-155
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of laserdisc versions of films produced for the National Air and Space Museum. The laserdisc versions were created by Lumivision Corporation from existing IMAX Corporation films. "To Fly!" celebrates the fulfillment of man's ancient dream of flight, chronicling man's successful attempt to overcome time and distance ...
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Riva, Peter
- Dates:
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1986-1987
- Size:
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9.89 Cubic feet ((1 letter document box) (8 records center boxes) (2 shoeboxes) (1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0054
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the records kept by project manager Peter Riva and includes legal files, general office files, audio tapes, videotapes, newspaper and magazine accounts of the flight and transcripts of the account that would become the book, Voyager by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan with Phil Patton, published by Knopf in 1987.
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
Ford Motor Company.
Science Museum of London
- Dates:
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1928-1986
- Size:
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9.3 Cubic feet ((3 48"x36"x3" drawers))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0152
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of drawings of the 1903 Wright Flyer executed at various times during the life of the aircraft: Science Museum of London Drawings -- commissioned when the aircraft was on loan to the Museum; Ford Drawings -- sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which were supervised by Orville Wright and Charles Taylor; Christman Drawings --...
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Harper's Magazine
- Dates:
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bulk 1878
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0053
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The cover of Harper's Weekly in New York, on 13 July 1878, depicts Ritchel's airship in flight.
