DAYTON, Ohio — National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will be cleared for liftoff when the museum’s new Space Shuttle Exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 26. The exhibit, which features NASA’s first Crew Compartment Trainer, allows visitors to experience the size and shape of an actual space shuttle orbiter by entering […]
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Museum to host African American Pioneers in Aviation Day
On Saturday, Feb. 22, the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center will host “African American Pioneers in Aviation Day.” Visitors will have the chance to meet NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and watch a new puppet show produced for the museum about the Tuskegee Airmen.
Museum to hold Open Cockpit Day, feature Blimp Car
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — The New England Air Museum will hold Open Cockpit Day March 16. On that day visitors will be able to climb into the cockpits of up to nine vintage airplanes, including two supersonic jet fighters, the Vietnam era Huey helicopter, the World War II P-47 Thunderbolt, the Vintage DC-3 airliner, and […]
Space Shuttle exhibit to open Feb. 26 in Dayton
DAYTON, Ohio — National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will be cleared for liftoff when the museum’s new Space Shuttle Exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 26.
Chasing Reno Gold
An air racing symposium will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif. It will feature top winning race pilots, who will share some of the best air racing stories from the last five decades, museum officials promise. The event is based on the “Chasing Reno Gold” DVD that […]
Presentation to detail CAP’s efforts after Sandy
The Aviation Museum of New Hamphire’s ongoing Second Saturday series will present Col. William Moran, commander of the New Hampshire Civil Air Patrol, who will present a report on the photo-mapping missions carried out in the wake of Super Storm Sandy, on Feb. 8. After the storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was in […]
Air Force museum’s fourth building set to proceed
DAYTON, Ohio – After a brief delay, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s fourth building is set to proceed. In December 2013, Turner Construction Co. of Washington, D.C., was awarded a $35 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, to build a new 224,000-square-foot building — similar in size […]
Cosmosphere slates open house
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center will hold it second annual Open House, Sunday, Feb. 9, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. “There are people in Hutchinson, Wichita and the surrounding communities who have either never been to the Cosmosphere, or who haven’t been in many years,” said Richard Hollowell, Cosmosphere Chief […]
Pilot lectures on ‘Captain Phillips’ rescue
SEATTLE — With the Tom Hanks movie, “Captain Phillips,” now a nominee for the Motion Picture Academy’s Best Picture award, on Jan. 25 visitors to the Museum of Flight can get a behind-the-scenes look at the real story from someone who participated in the Navy rescue operation of Capt. Phillips depicted in the film. Museum […]