# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/r4o1P9oaIl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11738476-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/9105d8638b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2014-08-19T15:31:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

National Aviation Day is today! We're remembering 'first flights.' Share yours on social media with stories and images using #myfirstflight.

In honor of the Wright brother's first flight, President Franklin Roosevelt declared in 1939 that Aug. 19, Orville Wright's birthday, would be National Aviation Day - an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of aviation. 
In this photo, research pilot Denis Steele sets up a camera in the cockpit of an ER-2 aircraft at 65,000 feet over the Alaskan mountains.

Image Credit: NASA / Denis Steele

#nasa #nationalaviationday #nasaaero #aeronautics

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## Tags

myfirstflight, nasa, nasaaero, aeronautics, nationalaviationday

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