Aviation Educational Posters- the Science, Art & History of Flight, pg 2/2

Page 2 selection of educational Aviation and Aeronatics posters and charts on the science, art and history of flight as teaching resources for the classroom and home schoolers. Images include aircraft from World War I and II, jets, and civil aircraft.

WWI Aircraft

Aircraft in the form of balloons and Zeppelin were used early in World War I for reconnaissance, and then as bombers, but their stationary positions made them targets and ineffectual. Then the new innovations of novelty sports type planes developed in the ten years since the Wright Brothers first powered flight were pressed into service. Serious aerial combat evolved when the pilots started shooting at one another with hand guns.

• more WW II posters

Jet Fighters, Vietnam / LIFE Cover: February 25, 1966
Larry Burrows

• Vietnam Era posters

Women and Flight - Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots

• more Women posters

The Tuskegee Airmen

Poster Text: In March of 1942, five African American men earned the siver wings of military pilots at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. These men were the firs "Tuskegee Airmen," a group of black pilots who served with great distinction during World War II. The Red-Tail Angels also compiled an outstanding combat record. They participated in the D-Day operation, downing many German fighter planes in the days following the June 6, 1944, invasion of France. On June 25, 1944, two Tuskegee Airmen sank a German warship with machine gun fire. This was the first time a fighter aircraft had accomplished such a feat. During the war, the Tuskegee Airmen destroyed many enemy aircraft and damaged and destroyed a great number of enemy railroad cars, barges, boats, oil and ammunitions dumps, buildings, and factories. They earned 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Legion of Merit, 744 Air Medals, eight Purple Hearts, two Soldier's Medals, and fourteen Bronze Stars. Sisty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in aerial combat and 32 more were shot down and captured as prisoners of war. After World War II, the black squadrons were deactivated. By 1947, the Army Air Corps had become the United States Air Force and had begun integrating its units. Some historians believe that the performance records of the Tuskegee Airmen helped bring an end to segregation in the military....

• Black Military History posters
• Tuskegee Airmen at Amazon.com

Yankee Clipper and China Clipper, Pearl Harbor 1939

Helicopter Fine Art Print

Helicopter

The helicopter, an aircraft lifted and propelled by horizontal rotors was not commercially available until 1942 when Igor Sikorsky's design went into full production.

Leonardo da Vinci Sketch for Helical Air Screw

The word helicopter is from the Greek helix=spiral and pteron=wing.

• more Da Vinci posters

Daedalus and Icarus, 15th Century Woodcut, Giclee Print

Daedalus and Icarus

• Greece & Greek posters
• History of Posters, Printmaking

Bird in Motion Art Print Eadward Muybridge

Bird in Motion, time lapse photography by
Eadward Muybridge

• more bird posters
• more Eadward Muybridge posters

Amelia Earhart, National Archives

Amelia Earhart,
National Archives
b. 7-24-1898; Atchison, KS
missing since 7-2-1937, western Pacific Ocean

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Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927 Fine-Art Photo (Transatlantic Flight May 21, 1927)

Charles Lindbergh
b. 2-4-1902; Detroit, MI
d. 8-26-1974; Hawaii

• more Charles Lindbergh, Man of the Year / TIME - January 2, 1928
• Charles Lindbergh with Will Rogers

Chuck Yeager /TIME April 18, 1949

Chuck Yeager
b. 2-13-1923; WV

Chuck Yeager was the first test pilot to travel faster than sound in level flights and ascent, 1947.

Astronaut Wall Poster

Astronaut

U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984.

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