Photo: A group of men inspect a "hovercraft" in a BU lab in 1969
February 27, 2026
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Flashback Friday: Aerodynamics Lab, 1969-Style

BU College of Engineering students and their professor constructing a “hovercraft” in an Aerodynamics Lab, November 10, 1969. On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon, a feat that could only have been imagined a few years earlier. Photo by Boston University Photography