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Wiley Post @ Getty Images Amelia Earhart @ Getty Images Howard Hughes @ Bettmann/CORBIS Hughes at the controls in the 'Spruce Goose' @ Bettmann/CORBIS La Guerre Infernale @ Leonard de Selva/CORBIS Japanese fire balloon. US army photo A3718 °C The Coriolis effect @ Ruth Murray The jet streams @ Ruth Murray Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand @ News (UK) Ltd/Rex Features Interior of an Avro Lancastrian. @ Science Museum/Science and Society Interior of first class compartment of commercial passenger plane © Getty Images Pan Am Boeing 377 @ Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS Juan Trippe © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Dining passengers @ CORBIS Pan American Airways System © Smithsonian Institution/Corbis London Airport (Croydon) in 1925 (sepia photo) by English Photographer, (20th century)/Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library Freddie Laker @ Getty Images Remembrance stamp — Berlin Airlift @ Getty Images Berlin Airlift © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Royal Flying Doctor Service @ Getty Images Coanda's missile-aeroplane © aviation-images.com Frank Whittle with turbojet engine @ Bettmann/CORBIS Fracture in a Comet's fuselage © aviation-images.com Mitsubishi Zero @ Roger Viollet/Getty Images X-15 in a supersonic tunnel © NASA Avro Vulcan © Popperfoto/Getty Images Concorde prototype @ Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS TU-144LL @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC) Ramjet model @ NASA/GRC SkyIon cutaway @ Reaction Engines Goddard and rocket at Roswell @ Bettmann/CORBIS V-2 missile @ Science Museum/SSPL Piccard and Kipfer's wicker-basket helmets @ Bettmann/CORBIS Kittinger @ Time & Life Pictures Goblin @ aviation-images.com Chuck Yeager/Glamorous Glennis © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images X-15 drops from B-52 @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC) Joe Walker @ Bettmann/CORBIS Pterodactyl Ascender@ aviation-images.com Leo Valentin @ Getty Images Daedalus @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC) Paresev @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC) Cierva C-30 @ Getty Images Burt Rutan with model @ Burt Rutan variEZE plane @ Courtesy of Burt Rutan Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer @ Thierry Boccon-Gibod Rotary Rocket @ Getty Images Plaque placed on the moon @ Mary Evans Picture Library/INTERFOTO AGENTUR @ Ruth Murray, based on a drawing by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WhiteKnightOne and SpaceShipOne © Jim Koepnick Transhab module @ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images — 186 —
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