The Pilotorium

Sometimes I fly planes, and sometimes I'm the secretary of state.

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Fairey Gannet, Oshkosh 2014

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Launch of STS-30 (Archive: NASA, Marshall, 4/4/89) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.

Tramite Flickr: On May 4, 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-30) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. The crew consisted of pilot Ronald J. Grabe, commander David M. Walker, and mission specialists Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave, and Mark C. Lee. The primary payload for the mission was the Magellan/Venus Radar mapper spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS). The Magellan spacecraft, which arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990, collected radar images of 98 percent of the planet’s surface, with resolution 10 times better than that of the earlier Soviet Venera 15 and 16 missions. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. held overall responsibility for the Space Shuttle’s external tanks, main engines, and solid rocket boosters. Image credit: NASA

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Jurassic Park, 1993 / Pacific Rim, 2013

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This is just the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

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Fairey Rotodyne

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P-38 Lighting by vipmig

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bangladesh airforce

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C-124

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by THPlanespotting

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RAF Tristars and Panavia Tornado F3s, gone but not forgotten. Photo James Thomas.

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25th Infantry Division men with Hueys in the background, 1966.

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crash by helveticaneue

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I imagine she’s the designer, pilot

and mechanic.

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Over 127,000 pounds of thrust on the world’s most powerful jet engine sends rocks flying in Victorville, Calif. at GE’s Flight Test Operations center. Here, next-generation jet engines are tested on planes that instead of seats hold powerful computers and miles of wires and fiber optic cables that connect to sensors in the engines. Read more at GE Reports.