Photograph of a test dummy seated in a C-2 ejection seat, March 10, 1967.
Caption: "67-312-A. Run 4E-F1. 10 Mar 67. UNCL. Land-Air."
Inscription on verso: “C-2 seat program D-7."
Photograph of a test dummy following a C-2 ejection seat test, March 10, 1967. The dummy's parachute is tangled around a pole.
Caption: "67-312-F. Run 4E-F1. 10 Mar 67. UNCL. Land-Air."
Inscription on verso: "C-2 seat program D-7."
Photograph of a test dummy following a C-2 ejection seat test, March 10, 1967. The dummy's parachute is tangled around a pole.
Caption: "67-312-C. Run 4E-F1. 10 Mar 67. UNCL. Land-Air."
Inscription on verso: “C-2 seat program D-7."
Photograph of two men with a drogue parachute after an F-104 ejection seat test, California, October 16, 1968.
Typed on verso: "Official United States Photography - Cleared for publication - U.S. Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility - El Centro,…
Photograph of three men with a drogue parachute after an F-104 ejection seat test, California, October 16, 1968.
Typed on verso: "Official United States Photography - Cleared for publication - U.S. Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility - El Centro,…
Photograph of two unidentified men examining a parachute scrap from an ejection seat test, circa 1974. The text on the parachute reads: "Northrop YF-17/Proj 34E. Test #8. Thur 17 Jan 74."
Photograph of supplies being airdropped to troops, China-Burma-India Theater, circa 1940s.
Typed on verso: "Aerial supply to fighting units in isolated regions of Burma and China was an important task of the Troop Carrier planes. Food, ammunition and…
Photograph of a burning observation balloon and parachutes descending to the ground, circa 1914-1918. The parachutes have been circled in white.Inscription on album page: "Burning baloon [sic] and paraschutes [sic]."Part of Album One from the Nancy…
Special Orders No. 7 (extract), Headquarter Air Service, Army Group, American Expeditionary Forces, November 4, 1918. Orders Wilbur D. Kennedy to Paris to participate in board of officers conducting parachute experiments. One typed page, two copies.
Memorandum from First Lieutenant Wilbur D. Kennedy to Chief, Technical Section, November 14, 1918. Reports on a number of parachute demonstrations and makes suggestions for parachute types to implement. Three typed pages.