Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Significant Voyages
Launch of Pioneer 4 on a Juno II rocket on March 3, 1959.
Lt. Lester Maitland and Lt. Hegenberger with the Fokker C-2 Bird of Paradise.
Amelia Earhart was busy in May 1937 repairing her crash-damaged Lockeed Electra 10E.
Weems had just trained famed British aviator Amy Johnson in celestial navigation.
Trained by P. V. H Weems in air navigation
Charles Lindbergh in front of his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.
Lizards, South America (Teius teguixin, Brachylophus fasciatus, Hoplodactylus pomarii)
The 10E was an excellent aircraft, but it lacked sufficient range to make a South Pacific crossing safe and practical.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow made a series of transoceanic airline survey flights in this Lockheed Sirius.
This act authorized prizes—up to £20,000—for solving the longitude problem.
