by EAA | Apr 4, 2024 | Attic
In 1940, Smithsonian employee Paul Garber produced an exhibit highlighting the various Allied and Axis aircraft then fighting in World War II. His display caught the attention of the U.S. Navy, who commissioned Garber to produce training aids for aircraft recognition....
by EAA | Feb 8, 2024 | Attic
Printed in 1932, this postcard shows the proposed route that Oshkosh native Clyde Lee planned to take from the United States to Norway. Lee campaigned for his red 1928 Stinson to be painted with the OshKosh B’gosh logo, in hopes that the company from his hometown...
by EAA | Jan 12, 2024 | Attic, EAA Museum
When it entered service in 1934, the Martin B-10 was a revolution in bomber design. Faster than many fighters of the day, the B-10 featured an all-metal airframe, enclosed cockpits, an internal bomb bay, and rotating gun turrets, all features that would become...
by EAA | Nov 30, 2023 | Attic
Before the miniaturization and adoption of hard disk drives, magnetic tape reels like this were a primary data storage medium in early computers. This reel contained part of the flight test program for the approach and landing tests of the space shuttle Enterprise....
by EAA | Nov 2, 2023 | Attic
This throttle assembly was fitted to a Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, serial No. 56-0763. This particular aircraft spent much of its service life based at the USAF Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Read...
by EAA | Oct 6, 2023 | Attic, Youth & Young Eagles
For the 2005 EAA Youth Art Contest, contestants were asked to design a paint scheme for one of EAA’s two Young Eagles aircraft, a GlaStar 3 (N231YE). Read...
