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The Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Houston, Texas, is an aerospace museum that displays more than 24 historically significant aircraft, [3] and many artifacts related to the history of flight. Located at Ellington Airport , the museum is housed on about 100,000 ft 2 (10,000 m 2 ) of property, including its own airport ramp.
Along with the B-36 Peacemaker Museum, [7] the Forward Air Controllers' Museum [8] tells the stories of Forward Air Control (FAC) used in Close Air Support (CAS), the history of the North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco, and the history of aviation in North Texas with an emphasis on Air Force Plant 4 (currently operated by Lockheed Martin). [9]
Experimented in aeronautics at age 13 with a Chinese top (1796); [28] first design of a fixed-wing aircraft (1799); [51] used a whirling arm to test aerofoils at varying angles (1804); [51] presented a paper outlining specific design parameters for building a glider (1810); [51] designed, constructed, and had flown (short hop) a tri-plane (1849 ...
Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, United States as well as commercial helicopters in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada.
The S-43 Sikorsky in Brazoria County Airport in Texas Brazoria County Airport Texas: The S-43 Sikorsky prototype. In the spring of 1943 Hughes spent nearly a month in Las Vegas, test-flying his Sikorsky S-43 amphibious aircraft, practicing touch-and-go landings on Lake Mead in preparation for flying the H-4 Hercules. The weather conditions at ...
The Texas Air Museum is an aviation museum run by volunteers in two locations—Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio [2] and City of Slaton/Larry T. Neal Memorial Airport near Lubbock, Texas. [3] Texas Air Museum was founded in 1985 by John Houston in Rio Hondo. [4] [5] The Slaton location opened in March 1993. [4]
Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer.He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs, most notably the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
The Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company (TEMCO), also known as Temco Aircraft Corporation, was a U.S.-based manufacturing company located in Dallas, Texas, USA. It is best known for eventually forming part of the conglomerate Ling-Temco-Vought .