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Rewind #5 · Thursday, October 29, 2026

Planes, a street jammed with trucks and a rocket on the pad

The Thursday, October 29, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1900 to 2026.

  1. A twin-engine propeller plane in flight, seen past the wing of another aircraft, above a checkerboard of farmland.
  2. A huge four-engine transport plane on an airfield apron, with a crowd of uniformed men watching a truck unload beneath its fuselage.
  3. A busy city street seen from above, jammed with box delivery trucks, shop signs and crowds of pedestrians pushing hand trucks.
  4. Color view of tall downtown towers rising behind a railroad yard with boxcars, with a big railroad company sign on the right.
  5. A black and white photo of a tall rocket with two thick boosters standing on its pad beside a dark service tower and a sign.

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  1. Test body mounted on an RF-61C airplane in flight, photographed from another aircraft1949

    NACA mounted test bodies on an airplane and flew them to study high-speed airflow in real flight.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

  2. A C-74 Globemaster being unloaded at Gatow airfield during the Berlin Airlift1948

    Heavy equipment flown in by transports like this helped build and repair Berlin's airfields while the airlift kept the city supplied by air.

    Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Public domain (US government) Source

  3. Delivery trucks jamming West 37th Street at Seventh Avenue, New York City1945

    Manhattan's Garment District was the hub of American clothing manufacturing, with finished garments pushed between lofts on wheeled racks.

    Photo: Al Aumuller, World-Telegram, LoC · Public domain (no known restrictions) Source

  4. Freight yard in front of the downtown skyline, Chicago, Illinois1943

    The white clock-tower building in the middle is the Wrigley Building, finished in 1924 and clad in glazed terra-cotta tiles.

    Photo: Jack Delano, FSA/OWI, Library of Congress · Public domain (US government) Source

  5. Titan III-C on its pad before launching ATS-F1974

    This rocket launched a satellite that later beamed educational television to villages in India.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

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