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Lyden H. Rien Boeing Flying Fortress School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-01-31
Content Description
The Lyden H. Rien Boeing Flying Fortress School Collection consists of materials related to Rien's military service during World War II as a B-17 mechanic. The bulk of the collection consists of U.S. Army Air Corps Technical School training materials from the Boeing Flying Fortress School, part of the Boeing School of Aeronautics, from when Rien trained as a B-17 mechanic in 1942. The materials include a two-volume training manual that is interspersed with handwritten notes and...
Dates:
1941-1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Susan "Kelly" Riley United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-03-06
Contents of the Collection
The Susan "Kelly" A. Riley United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual materials and photographs related to Riley's career as a stewardess during the 1960s. There are two (2) United Airlines (UAL) Mainliner Stewardess diplomas (1961, 1963) for Riley; including the cases they were housed in. With each diploma is also a black-and-white group portrait of newly graduated UAL stewardesses. Both portraits are 8x10" and neither include identifying information,...
Dates:
1961-1963
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Margie Ripley Constellation Model Photograph
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2025-08-19
Content Description
The Margie Ripley Constellation Model Photograph is a single-item collection consisting of one photograph of Ripley and her mother posing with a model of a Constellation built by her father, Leonard Schmitz, circa 1950s. The black-and-white photograph measures about 3.25x4.5 inches.
Dates:
circa 1950s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rockwell International Space Shuttle Advertisements
Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 21, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2019-09-09
Content Description
The Rockwell International Space Shuttle Advertisements is a small collection consisting of three advertisements placed in the Wall Street Journal honoring NASA space shuttles from 1979-1981. Two advertisements from July 20, 1979 and April 15, 1981 honor the space shuttle Columbia. Both are double-page spreads. One full-page advertisement honors the space shuttle Enterprise and was printed August 15, 1977. All three advertisements feature a pen-and-ink...
Dates:
1977-1981
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Polly (Peppard) Rohrback Northwest Airlines Flight Attendant photographs
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011-02-23-A
Contents of the Collection
The Polly (Peppard) Rohrback Northwest Airlines Flight Attendant photographs is small collection consisting of six color photographs that depict Polly (Peppard) Rohrback during her time as a flight attendant for Northwest Airlines (NWA), circa 1968-1978. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10". One is a graduation group portrait of NWA stewards and stewardesses, most of the rest are more casual group shots. Two images have captions which provide contextual information;...
Dates:
1968-1978
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Gary Rosenfield Model Rocket Motor Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2012-12-21-A
Contents of the Collection
The Gary Rosenfield Model Rocket Motor Collection holds primarily textual materials related to model rocket motors, circa 1960s-2010. Materials include business cards, technical data sheets, motor instructions, photocopies of technical drawings, a flight plan roll, and related correspondence. Materials are from a variety of companies, although the bulk of items are from AeroTech, Composite Dynamics, and Enerjet. Additionally, there is a small amount of correspondence from the National...
Dates:
circa 1960s-2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
C. E. Roy U.S. Naval Aviation Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2009-02-19
Abstract
Carlyle Emerson Roy (b. 1890) served as a photographer at Key West Naval Air Station, Florida, during World War I. The collection contains an album of photographs and ephemera depicting U.S. Naval activities at the station.
Dates:
1890-1950; Majority of material found within 1917-1918
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Henry C. Runkel Apollo Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1987-09-23
Content Description
The Henry C. Runkel Apollo Collection is a small collection with visual and textual materials documenting the development of the Saturn launch vehicles used in NASA's Apollo program in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection consists of items gathered by Runkel who was Boeing's Chief Engineer for the S-1C stage of the Saturn V rocket at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of most interest is a bound document titled "Apollo Saturn V S-1C Booster...
Dates:
circa 1966-1977
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
James P. Rush World War II Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2018-00-00-66
Contents of the Collection
This small collection contains World War II-era pilot training materials, possibly used by James P. Rush, who likely served as a pilot. It includes 2 copies of "Weather for Pilot Trainees Elementary Student's Workbook;" several pages of training exercises, such as quizzes; and other textual materials related to weather and air navigation, including a navigation logbook for Stuttgart Army Air Field (Arkansas) and a weather map symbol chart. Additional documents cover aircraft...
Dates:
1939 to 1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Russian Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-4
Abstract
The Russian Aviation Collection documents 20th century Soviet and Russian aviators and aviation accomplishments, including the Soviet Transpolar Flight of 1937 as well as the Douglas World Cruisers of 1924, with photographs, clippings, articles, and photographic reproductions of various textual materials.
Dates:
1924-1983
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives