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A group of white males representing the U.S. Army Air Service stand next to the nose of a biplane.

Crew of 1923 U.S. Army Air Service Successful Transcontinental Flight

Artur de Sacadura Cabral (on the left) and Gago Coutinho (on the right), both of whom are Portuguese male naval aviators, inside the cockpit of an aircraft.

Artur de Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho

Black and white photo of several people eating ice cream.

Eating Ice Cream at the Aeromarine Airways

Jack Knight, a white male air mail pilot, stands informally in pilot gear.

Jack Knight, Air Mail Pilot

Telegram message written to the Post Office Department by pilot Jack Knight describing his experiences on a new flight path.

Jack Knight Telegram

Neta Snook, a female flight instructor, stands with her at-the-time female pilot student, Amelia Earhart, in front of a biplane with one engine.

Flight Instructor Neta Snook with Amelia Earhart

Front view of a biplane during an expedition flight. A person is trying to climb from an automobile below the biplane onto the biplane.

Curtiss Jenny in Exhibition Flight

A satirical cartoon suggesting that "radicals" should be shot to the Moon by a rocket. The cartoon features a large group of people in a rocket soaring away from Earth in the bottom corner.

1919 Satirical Rocket Cartoon

Front view of a biplane partially covered with materials as it stands on snowy ground in a snowstorm.

Curtiss R-4 in Snow

A silver engine

King-Bugatti U-16 Engine

Military biplane in nosed over position. Caption written below photo is incorrect. It is an earlier plane model, the Cauldron G-3 is the model instead of the Cauldron G-4 mentioned.

Caudron G.3 in France

Paper page showing a flight log for a plane used during World War I. Entries are written in black ink.

Page of WWI Flight Log

An airship with one end on the ground and the other end still floating above it.

Zeppelin LZ 96 (Navy L 49)

William J. Powell, a black man, sits while wearing his Army uniform.

William J. Powell in 1917

A white man stands while holding a large rounded tube.

Goddard with the Vacuum-Tube Apparatus

A black and white newspaper advertisement for a pilot demonstration featuring pilot Harry Bingham Brown and parachutist Frederick Rodman Law.

Advertisement for Frederick Rodman Law and Harry Bingham Brown