Multimedia Gallery
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Elder's note to "Mother" Tusch echoes the appeal of female aviators from the era to be treated just as the "boys."
Ruth Elder’s airplane was paid for by investors from Wheeling, West Virginia who saw great financial opportunity in the prospects for cashing in on the fame of a female Lindbergh. The plane was certainly capable of an Atlantic crossing and compared favorably with Lindbergh’s Ryan NYP. Elder and Haldeman’s flight was plagued by severe icing that required the jettisoning of fuel and, ultimately, an oil leak that lead to the ditching of the “American Girl” hundreds of miles from the Azores.
The Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, flown by Charles Lindbergh on his 1927 Atlantic crossing, is one of the Museum’s most treasured artifacts.
From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, the Italian-built twin-hulled S.55 was one of the most common crossers of the Atlantic.
Electronics Technician 1st Class David Schlessinger on board the USS Alabama.
The Dornier DoJ Wal Argos used by Beires for his transatlantic flight.
The GPS Operations Center at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs controls the GPS satellites.
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Darwin Serkland measures the wavelength of a tiny laser for chip-scale atomic clocks.