"I need a soft shoulder to cry on" (Private Dick Hackney McTrite by Walker Jackson).  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

It's been said that "The parent is the background context."  Photo courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"Have ball, will orbit": The Vanguard TV-4 Missile, 1958, via the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"They watch with loving and gracious eyes as you flail about, because they, too, have fallen, flailed, and found new life on the other side" (Jenny Simmons, The Road to Becoming).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"All set to go places and do things!"  From 1938.

"For when the frost comes, all will be safe till Spring" (R. H. Budd, The Complete Practical Farmer, 1835).  Photo courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"I am who I am, but there are always two sides to every face.  For me, one is a myth, the other a legend" (Clair McIntyre, Shadowy Stillness).  Photo as scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.

Three members of the 72nd Squadron in Hawaii, 1928, courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Photo courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archive.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the artist creating this WWII feline bombardier.

"The sky is an umbrella to the earth" (Sri Venkateswara University's Oriental Journal, 1981).  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

That's some aura around the light ship Brenton.  Photograph by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

"The newest thing in freak photgography: sitters posing for their portraits in sphinxes and a mummy-case, in Egypt.  Our illustration shows visitors to Egypt being photographed in model sphinxes and a mummy-case, in a desire to possess curious—if somewhat gruesome souvenirs of their wanderings by the Nile.  The mummy-case and the sphinxes are of cardboard, and, as may be seen, a hole is left for the face of the sitter."  From The Sketch, 1908.

It's been said that there are many ways to fly.  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Okay, Charles Lindbergh, we get it.  It's that long.  Guess you won't need to ask for another endowment.  (Photo c. 1927, courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.)

"The jumper plunges into this vortex" (Tobi Tobias, "Three Times Lucky," New York Magazine, 1984).  Photograph by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.