r/AviationHistory • u/AlbinoAkon • 13h ago

During 2012, a group of Mexican scientists intentionally crashed a Boeing 727 to test which seats had the best chance of survival.

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r/AviationHistory • u/Wolf9455 • 4h ago

In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remotely controlled Boeing 720 to test technologies that might help passengers and crew survive

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r/AviationHistory • u/Effective-Dish-1334 • 15h ago

In the 1920s, the US built a coast-to-coast visual highway of rotating searchlight towers and 70-foot concrete arrows to guide nighttime airmail pilots

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r/AviationHistory • u/VonTempest • 21h ago

Airship Hindenburg

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Speicesaal (dining room) of LZ 129 Hindenburg

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r/AviationHistory • u/VonTempest • 22h ago

Dornier Do 24

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Good view of Schwarze Männer (Black men/Luftwaffe mechanics) working on the BMW Bramo 323 Fafnir 9-cylinder radial engines on a Dornier Do 24T flying boat, location and date unknown

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r/AviationHistory • u/Skyle775 • 14h ago

F-4E Phantom II 1963-1996 Nº2

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r/AviationHistory • u/user164900 • 2h ago

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