Technical illustrations and cutaway drawings of civil aircraft and helicopters, spacecraft, aerospace and aviation subjects.
The Space Shuttle orbiter is the crewed spaceplane component of the Space Transportation System (STS). The other components were a large external fuel tank (ET) and two Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters (SRB) used for take-off and jettisoned before reaching orbit. Six orbiters were built for flight; Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Read more
De Havilland Comet The Comet was the first jet-engined passenger airliner and made its first test flight on 27 July 1949, the British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) having already committed itself to the purchase of 10 aircraft. A clean, low-drag design had swept wings, integral wing fuel tanks, a pressurised Read more