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Woman Computer with Microscope and Calculator

  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ March 24, 2021
  • Lea Vasquez said:
    What an amazing contribution to NASA, I had no idea. I love this!

Sunset silhouette of flying fortress, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)

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  • bi711247 said:
    Stunning
  • John Ellis said:
    For aircraft fans, the images just cannot get any better than this!
  • Steve Crane said:
    Beautiful.
  • perfgeek said:
    Looks like an early one, from before they augmented the tail assembly.
  • last crate said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mal's Best of the Best, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Flanagan's Langley Memorial (LOC)

  • Harry Angstrom said:
    text is legible on the monument and it refers to Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Langley was a pioneer in aviation. Here is article about him from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Langley May 7, 1913] Langley Memorial Unveiled at Smithsonian Institution. SCIENTISTS EULOGIZE HIM AG Bell Presents Medals to Glenn Curtiss and Gustave Eiffel." French Ambassador Receives Gift in Be- half of Absent Countryman -- Struggles of "Father of Modern Aviation," Said to Have Died of Broken Heart. ... From HONOR AIR PIONEER - Washington Post ($$)
  • Wystan said:
    Langley's airplanes didn't work, and after repeated failures he was upstaged in December, 1903, by the Wright Brothers. But because of its allegiance to Secretary Langley, the Smithsonian Institution refused for years to recognize the Wright Brothers' primacy over Langley, who had desperately wanted to go down in history as the first to make a powered flight. Orville Wright donated his original biplane to a British museum, and the Smithsonian didn't get it until after WWII, when they apologized to Wright for the snub. John Flanagan (1865-1952), the designer of this plaque and numerous others, also came up with the design of the 1932 George Washington memorial (bicentennial) quarter.