Aerospace Industry Collection (#6)

Aviation Meeting
22nd November 1912: G Sabelli just beating LWF Turner at an aviation meeting at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Military Aviation At Hendon
Monoplanes at a naval and military aviation review at Hendon Aerodrome, North London, 28th September 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aviation Ground
13th September 1911: General view of the aviation ground at Bristol. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Codys No 14
August 1910: The aircraft flown by American aviator Commander Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Biplane
1911: The biplane Coanda at an aviation meeting at Reims. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sea-plane at dock
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Sea-plane at dock. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Early Zeppelin
A passenger carrying Zeppelin operated by the German Delag, the first scheduled airline company, in France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

RAF Supermarine Spitfire

Woman Testing A Microcomputer
Los Angeles, California: September, 1975 A woman testing a microcomputer with 16 two-bit bipolar Schottky LSI circuits at the Hughes Aircraft Company

Diagram of the soviet space probe venera 1 which was launched towards venus on february 12, 1961

The descent capsule of the soviet space probe venera 5 or 6 being lowered into an installation for testing heat resistance, 1968, this is a still from the film the storming of venus, produced by e

Soviet space probe venera 5 or 6 being tested in a pressure chamber, 1968, this is a still from the film the storming of venus, produced by e

Parachute for soviet space probe venera 5 or 6 being tested in a wind tunnel, this is a still from the film the storming of venus, produced by e

A rocket bearing the soviet space probe venera 5 or 6 prior to its launch in january 1969, this is a still from the film the storming of venus, produced by e

Descent capsule of soviet space probe venera 4 in the last stages of preparation before its flight, still from a film entitled hello venus!

Soviet space probe venera 1 (venus one), back view, launched 2 / 12 / 61, ussr
Soviet space probe venera 1 (venus one), back view, launched 2/12/61, ussr

Soviet satellite sputnik 3 at the space exchange, 1966

Antenna arrays for tracking the soviet space probes venera 5 and 6, 1969, this is a still from the film the storming of venus, produced by e

Soviet moon rover lunokhod 2 at the time of testing

Soviet space probe, venera 4 (venus 4), with landing package attached, the probe soft landed on venus on october 18th, 1967

The rd-1 liquid propellant rocket engine

SpaceX CRS-2 launch, March 2013 C016 / 9706
SpaceX CRS-2 launch. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA

SpaceX CRS-2 launch, March 2013 C016 / 9704
SpaceX CRS-2 launch. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA

SpaceX CRS-2 launch, March 2013 C016 / 9708
SpaceX CRS-2 launch. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA

SpaceX Dragon capsule preparations C016 / 9711
SpaceX Dragon capsule preparations. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft, with solar array fairings attached

SpaceX CRS-2 launch, March 2013 C016 / 9705
SpaceX CRS-2 launch. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA

Airbus A350 XWB wing manufacturing. Engineers working on a component that forms part of the trailing edge of a wing on the new Airbus A350 XWB

Apollo 15 moon landing mission control. View of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC) at NASAs Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Robert Bigelow, US Aerospace entrepreneur
Robert Bigelow (born 1945). Portrait of the US aerospace and hotels entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow talking at the Bigelow Aerospace facilities, Las Vegas, USA

Avionics, conceptual image C013 / 5594
Avionics, conceptual image. Computer artwork representing the electronic systems used on aircraft and spacecraft

SpaceX Dragon capsule at the ISS C016 / 4215
SpaceX Dragon capsule at the ISS. View from the International Space Station (ISS) of the Dragon cargo capsule from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies)

Proton-M rocket before launch C013 / 9296
Proton-M rocket before launch. Russian Proton-M rocket before its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to put the Dutch NSS-14 (SES-4) telecommunications satellite into orbit

Antimatter spaceship. Artwork of the antimatter spaceship concept developed for the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts by Hbar Technologies, LLC

Space construction technique. Artwork of the tailored force fields space construction concept developed for the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts by researchers at the Georgia Institute of

Mach 2. 5 wind tunnel
Mach 2.5 wind tunnel. Observation window showing the inside of a high-speed wind tunnel. This is the Mach 2.5 wind tunnel

Delta wing aerodynamics. Vortices (right) seen streaming off a delta wing (left) during a water tunnel test. Air bubbles were used to visualise the flow pattern

Delta wing in a wind tunnel, 1964
Delta wing being inspected by a researcher in a wind tunnel. A delta wing is a triangular wing used on high-speed aircraft

Aerodynamics experiment. Researcher adjusting aeronautical equipment being used in a physics experiment. Photographed in the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

Wind tunnel nozzle, 1953
Wind tunnel nozzle. This is an adjustable nozzle for a supersonic wind tunnel. The nozzle width can be changed to alter the speed of the wind flowing through the tunnel

SpaceShipOne re-entry
SpaceShipOne private spacecraft. Image 3 of 3. Computer artwork of SpaceShipOne re-entering the Earths atmosphere. The design allows the wings to pivot, forming the correct alignment

SpaceShipOne above Earth
SpaceShipOne private spacecraft. Image 2 of 3. Computer artwork of SpaceShipOne above Earth. The Milky Way is seen across top

SpaceShipOne firing rocket
SpaceShipOne private spacecraft. Image 1 of 3. Computer artwork of SpaceShipOne firing its rocket engine. The Moon is at upper left

Alexei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer
Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (1925-2001), Soviet aircraft designer, holding a model of a Soviet supersonic aircraft. Tupolev, the son of the famous aircraft pioneer Andrei Tupolev

Sergei Vernov, Soviet physicist
Sergei Nikolaevich Vernov (1910-1982), Soviet physicist. Vernov pioneered cosmic rays experiments in the stratosphere using radio balloons carrying specially designed equipment

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