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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation installing a 30-caliber machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy five and a half years. At the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, he sees that flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Making final adjustments on an "automatic pilot" which will be mounted in a war plane at the North American Aviation Inglewood, California, plant. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Making final adjustments on...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun of an American bomber speaks its piece. The air crew officer at the gun is equipped for any emergency of flight or combat

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. A couple of groundhogs get a liberal education from a Navy pilot as Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) escorts welder George Woolslayer and Sergeant French L. Vineyard (right) through his navy post. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned how the war can be won only by the united efforts of soldier, sailor and worker, during their introductions to one another's spheres of activity. Allegheny- Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. A couple of groundhogs get a liberal education...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Trainee ready for flight

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Pilots receive weather information by radio to insure safety in flight

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Ohio River banks as seen from the pilot window of the towboat Ernest T. Weir going down the Ohio River to Cincinnati

Ohio River banks as seen from the pilot window of the towboat Ernest T...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquartes of coastal patrol no. 20. The pilot and an observer, clad in all-rubber, watertight crash suits, ready for flight

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquartes of coastal patrol...

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Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield of Belleville, Ohio and Lieutenant R.F. Sargent, of Youngstown, Ohio, prepare to pilot a British Spitfire. Under the Reciprocal Aid Program, Britain is furnishing American air forces important equipment and supplies

Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield...

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Washington, D.C. The "flying nun" from Ironwood, Michigan, walking down the field at the Washington National Airport after taking her class through the hangars. Sister Aquinas holds a student pilot's license and has many flying hours to her credit

Washington, D.C. The "flying nun" from Ironwood, Michigan, walking dow...

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Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, filling out his pilot's log book after a solo flight at the Stevens Airport

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson H...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Eric "Dutch" Lammert, a pilot in a rubber waterproof crash suit, works throughout the winter months

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Prisant Properties, Pilot House, King's Point Rd. and Tredway Rd., Great Neck, Long Island. Entrance detail

Prisant Properties, Pilot House, King's Point Rd. and Tredway Rd., Gre...

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[Women getting into a car, probably the family of Willard G. Palm, a RB-47 reconnaissance airplane pilot who was shot down by the Russians, at Palm's burial at Arlington National Cemetery] / MST.

[Women getting into a car, probably the family of Willard G. Palm, a R...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Funeral for RB-47 Pilot, MST 8-4-60." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 4721, frame no. 5.

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Com..re M.C. Perry--Going out to the relief of the American steamer Hunter a French bark [her prize] and an American pilot boat wrecked on Green Island reef near Vera Cruize March 21st, 1847 / lith. of Sarony & Major ; executed by H. Walke Lt. U.S.N.

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Com..re M.C. Perry--Going out to t...

Naval Portfolio No. 1. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut. U.S. Navy. Copyright by Sarony & Major.

North Fork Butter Creek Bridge, Spanning North Fork Butter Creek Bridge at Milepost 76.63 on Heppner Highway (Oregon Route 74), Pilot Rock, Umatilla County, OR

North Fork Butter Creek Bridge, Spanning North Fork Butter Creek Bridg...

Significance: The North Fork Butter Creek Bridge #1189, which is located in the community of Vinson on Heppner Highway in Umatilla County, was constructed in 1926. The Butter Creek Bridge is a 2-span reinforced... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot Plant, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, as part of the Date Street Complex, was a component of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Bould... More

Views of the southwest pass of the Mississippi River [Composite of 3 views: 1. southwest pass with pilot town in backgrd.; 2. lighthouse and west view of the pass; 3. pilot town]

Views of the southwest pass of the Mississippi River [Composite of 3 v...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 5 (1861 December 7), p. 774. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pilot Boathouse, South end of Jarvis Street on West tip of Kuahua Peninsula, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pilot Boathouse, South end of Jarvis St...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Construction and completion of the canal in 1904 introduced irrigation to Central Oregon and contributed to the settlement, growth and creation of Bend. Although several other private irrigation c... More

Steam pilot boat "New York" - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Steam pilot boat "New York" - Public domain image of a steam ship or b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portable trailer in use in blind landings. Washington D.C. This portable trailer where all the equipment is enclosed can be easily transported to any position on the Airdrome so that the pilot can approach the field into the wind for his landing. All the beam control is dispatched from this trailer to the instrument in the cockpit of the plane while at the same time the pilot is in contact with the airport control tower. Photo shows the plane in a test taking off over the trailer in a test at the Airdrome

Portable trailer in use in blind landings. Washington D.C. This portab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lagagneux - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lagagneux - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lt. Col. H.E. Hartney - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lt. Col. H.E. Hartney - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lt. Lester J. Maitland - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lt. Lester J. Maitland - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George S. Russell - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

George S. Russell - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lt. W. H. Brookley - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lt. W. H. Brookley - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bolling Field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Bolling Field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Str. City of Detroit III, pilot house and bridge

Str. City of Detroit III, pilot house and bridge

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

CULVER, CLARENCE C. COL., U.S.A. IN CHARGE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO IN AIRPLANES. CURTISS PLANE

CULVER, CLARENCE C. COL., U.S.A. IN CHARGE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO IN AIR...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Pilot standing in front of U.S. Army airplane during World War I]

[Pilot standing in front of U.S. Army airplane during World War I]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General Menoher, Pilot, Capt. Ocker

General Menoher, Pilot, Capt. Ocker

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aniwegi Boudinot - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Aniwegi Boudinot - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Will Rogers & General Mitchell at Bowling Field [i.e., Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.], 4/24/25

Will Rogers & General Mitchell at Bowling Field [i.e., Bolling Field, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aviation leaders plan uniform laws. Leaders in the field of aviation from all over the country met in Washington today for the National Conference on Uniform Aeronautic Regulatory Laws. Maj. Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation, acted as chairman of the sessions. In the photograph, left to right, seated: Capt. Frank M. Hawks, noted speed flyer and glider pilot; Maj. Young; Alfred J. Williams, former Navy speed ace, and Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, famous pilot and vice-president of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Standing: W.S.Mayo, chief aeronautical engineer of the Ford Company, and State Senator J. Griswold Webb, chairman of the New York State Aviation Commission. 12/16/30

Aviation leaders plan uniform laws. Leaders in the field of aviation f...

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man working on a car. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man working on a car. Great Depression FF...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Airplane instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Airplane instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marine lieutenant with the power towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine lieutenant with the power towing plane for the gliders at Page ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on an engine of one of the airliners. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Working on an engine of one of the airliners. Washington, D.C. municip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air raid protection--what to do in your home. When an alarm sounds, turn off the gas! This includes heater, refrigerator, light and stove gas. Be sure the pilot light on your gas stove is turned off. Don't leave something cooking and plan to come back and look at it later. A bomb blast might blow out the flame and permit an explosive mixture of gas to accumulate

Air raid protection--what to do in your home. When an alarm sounds, tu...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Delegates from New Zealand: left, pilot officer Carlysle Blackie; right, pilot officer Russell Garlick

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Delegates from New Ze...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. From bottom to top, America's bombers are being produced with all the workers of the nation. This Negro worker is speeding the final assembly of the floor in the pilot's compartment of a medium bomber in one of America's largest bomber plants. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. From bottom to top, America's bo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of on...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mitchell Field. Eagle ready for battle. An American pursuit pilot in combat gear is all set to climb into his plane. His flying equipment includes a combined oxygen mask and throat-type microphone, headphones, parachute and Mae West life jacket

Mitchell Field. Eagle ready for battle. An American pursuit pilot in c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Sets of three-bladed propellers for Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships are prepared for installation at a large Western aircraft plant. After the propellers have been installed, the ships will be put through exacting inspection and trial flights. If these prove satisfactory, the new fighter planes will be delivered to the Army

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Sets of three-bladed propell...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army Air Force test pilots prepare to make a routine test flight in a North American B-25 bomber prior to acceptance by the Army

Army Air Force test pilots prepare to make a routine test flight in a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lake Muroc, California. One of the Flying Sergeants seated in his plane just before taking off

Lake Muroc, California. One of the Flying Sergeants seated in his plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces. After he has completed his training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he'll know a lot of new ways to put the heat on the Axis

Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. The pilot and an observer ready to take off

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Topeka, Kansas. William Massey, steel car repairer and rivet bucker, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. William Massey, steel car repairer and rivet bucker, a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. Two gentlemen from Ohio who pilot Spitfire planes in Britain. Lieutenant E.S. Schofield of Belleville, wearing a British flying kit, and R.F. Sargent of Youngstown, wearing a British Irvin jacket, give evidence of the cooperation between British and American air forces. Important equipment and supplies including airdromes, barracks and ammunition, are provided American fighting forces under the British Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Two gentlemen from Ohio who pilot Spitfire planes in B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, at the Stevens Airport

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson H...

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Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, at the Stevens Airport

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. A patrol plane

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fighter pilot interviewed after escape. Left to right: Jack Jarrel, INS correspondent; Captain Jesse Carney, 14th Air Force fighter pilot, Hoylwan, Oklahoma; Riley O'Sullivan, Associated Press war correspondent interviewing Captain Carney after successful escape from Japanese-occupied Burma. Carney is holding a pistol given him by the Chinese

Fighter pilot interviewed after escape. Left to right: Jack Jarrel, IN...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Scene in a pilot house during a mackeral school chase. Gloucester, Massachusetts

Scene in a pilot house during a mackeral school chase. Gloucester, Mas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. A Royal Air Force pilot awaits the mechanic's final check before taking off in his lend-lease Mohawk fighter

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. A Royal Air Force...

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Private First Class Willie J. Wicker, of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. A truck driver in civilian life, he is serving as a truck driver with the United States Army overseas

Private First Class Willie J. Wicker, of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. A tru...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Corpus Christi, Texas. Lieutenant Bill Horne, a Civil Air Patrol pilot, with a "Mae West" (life jacket). Lieutenant Horne is from Lubbock, Texas

Corpus Christi, Texas. Lieutenant Bill Horne, a Civil Air Patrol pilot...

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Prisant Properties, Pilot House, King's Point Rd. and Tredway Rd., Great Neck, Long Island. Television room

Prisant Properties, Pilot House, King's Point Rd. and Tredway Rd., Gre...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In the Mississippi Delta at head of passes north from Pilot's Tower to Cubit's Gap, La.

In the Mississippi Delta at head of passes north from Pilot's Tower to...

No. 16757. Copyright by the Keystone View Co. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, China Lake Pilot Plant, Fire Station & Marine Barracks, D Street, at corner of 4th Street, China Lake, Kern County, CA

Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, China Lake Pilot Plant, Fire Sta...

Significance: The Fire Station was built in 1944, as part of the original group of public works buildings within the administrative area of the China Lake Pilot Plant facility. It is a key contributing element... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot Plant, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, as part of the Date Street Complex, was a component of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Bould... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot Plant, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, as part of the Date Street Complex, was a component of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Bould... More

Nodaway River Bridge, Pilot Grove County Park (moved from Nodaway River), Grant, Montgomery County, IA

Nodaway River Bridge, Pilot Grove County Park (moved from Nodaway Rive...

Significance: The Nodaway River bridge is an example of what was once a common bridge form: the bowstring arch-truss. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used extensively because of their great ... More

Mambrino Pilot, Daisy Burns, and Rosamond: trotting for a purse, $100 mile heats, best 3 in 5 in harness

Mambrino Pilot, Daisy Burns, and Rosamond: trotting for a purse, $100 ...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4285

Thomas Maull House, 542 Pilot Town Road, Lewes, Sussex County, DE

Thomas Maull House, 542 Pilot Town Road, Lewes, Sussex County, DE

Significance: This gambrel roofed, one-and-a-half story, frame house, built ca. 1750, has a regionally typical plan characterized by a "great room" with a winding, closed stair beside a large fireplace. Survey... More

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Construction and completion of the canal in 1904 introduced irrigation to Central Oregon and contributed to the settlement, growth and creation of Bend. Although several other private irrigation c... More

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Construction and completion of the canal in 1904 introduced irrigation to Central Oregon and contributed to the settlement, growth and creation of Bend. Although several other private irrigation c... More

Parmalee - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Parmalee - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gar. Wood - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gar. Wood - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harmon in aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Harmon in aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oldest pilot on the coast, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Oldest pilot on the coast, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pilot boat No. 8 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Pilot boat No. 8 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pilot Collins - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Pilot Collins - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of people boarding on a ship, ocean liner deck, port, steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capt. Felix of Army Aero. Corps.

Capt. Felix of Army Aero. Corps.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in a Nieuport airplane, the first aviators to fly into Jerusalem]

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in a Nieuport airplane, the first aviators to fly into Jerusalem]

[Arrival of French pilot Marc Bonnier and mechanic Joseph Barnier in a...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Porter H. Adams - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Porter H. Adams - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

AVIATION, ARMY. AIRPLANE RADIO DEVELOPMENT. COL. C.C. CULVER

AVIATION, ARMY. AIRPLANE RADIO DEVELOPMENT. COL. C.C. CULVER

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rep. P. P. Campbell & General Mitchell, 5/14/20

Rep. P. P. Campbell & General Mitchell, 5/14/20

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"The good old days of aviation." Commander H.C. Richardson, crack U.S. Navy flyer, at the controls of a 1915 model Curtiss seaplane which he took on its maiden flight today on the Potomac at Washington. The old plane was discovered in storage at the Washington Navy Yard where it has been for over 12 years. Commander Richardson is testing the old boat to compare its behavior to that of craft of modern construction

"The good old days of aviation." Commander H.C. Richardson, crack U.S....

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Government plane completely equipped for testing radio and lighting. Captain F.C. Hingsburg, Chief of the Airways Division of the United States Department of Commerce, and a Government airplane that has been completely oufitted as a flying laboratory for testing radio and lighting systems along the country's airways. The radio equipment, for example, includes a transmitting set and two receivers, the pilot or passenger can plug in for radio reception at several convenient points throughout the cabin of the plane

Government plane completely equipped for testing radio and lighting. C...

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A man in a trench coat holding a camera. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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[Hiram Bingham?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Hiram Bingham?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Soviet Flyers at White House. Washington D.C June 28. The three Soviet Flyer who conquered the North Pole route between the U.S.S.R. and the United States are shown leaving the White House today after being received by President Roosevelt. In the photograph, left to right: George Baiduckcv, co-pilot; Valeri Chkalov, Pilot; Alexander Beliakov, navigator. 6/28/37

Soviet Flyers at White House. Washington D.C June 28. The three Soviet...

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Trout flown to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 21. Erdorn W. Wood, 57 year old sportsman went to Mystery Pond, New Hampshire, swished 29 trout from its 75-foot dept and started to Washington and President Roosevelt with the catch. His newly constructed glass-bottomed boat drifted on the pond during a rain storm, while Wood, depending solely on fly-casting, hooked the Presidential meal. The trout measured from 9 to 16 inches. Left to right: Spencer Treherne, the pilot; Marvin McIntyre, Secretary to the President who received the fish for the President; and Erdorn Wood, the fisherman, 5/21/1937

Trout flown to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 21. Erdorn W...

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Preparing for take-off at the glider pilot training program, Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Preparing for take-off at the glider pilot training program, Page Fiel...

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[Civilian pilot training school], returning from practice flight, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

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Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris...

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Marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

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Last minute check-up. Just before taking off, a bomber crew reviews details of its mission, the target of which is a major German rail center in central Italy. Before "Operation Strangle" went into effect, German forces in Italy were well-supplied since the Italian rail system was one of the best in Europe. Thus, first objectives of Allied bombers were key rail lines.

Last minute check-up. Just before taking off, a bomber crew reviews de...

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Student flyer at Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland

Student flyer at Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland

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