Air Museum Network – Connecting You with Aviation History
SEATTLE, March 29, 2013–The Museum of Flight is hosting the Northwest’s first “SpaceUp” symposium April 13-14, with a weekend devoted to assessing, plotting and pondering the future of commercial space exploration. SpaceUp “unconferences” are open-ended meetings held in major cities
SEATTLE, March 29, 2013—Yuri’s Night is an annual, global celebration of humanity’s past, present and future in space. The Museum of Flight will add to the mix Friday night, April 12, with a party in a place like no other — next
Cornwall, United Kingdom — A free flight of fancy back to aviation’s heyday will be on offer this weekend as Cornwall’s newest visitor attraction opens its doors to the public for the first time. The Classic Air Force Museum, based
The Peggy and Steve Fossett Foundation has issued a $1,000,000 challenge grant to the Salina Airport Authority to help raise funds for the Wings Over Salina Museum and Aviation Experience project. Salina Regional Airport is the site of two of
SEATTLE, March 27, 2013–On April 6 at 2 p.m., world-renowned military and aviation artist Jim Dietz will talk about his paintings depicting World War I air combat. Dietz will share his painting techniques, inspiration and artistic philosophy during this illustrated
Two guests stood out among a crowd of families enjoying spring break at the Alberta Aviation Museum Tuesday afternoon. As 100-year-old Ralph Arrison, a former Royal Canadian Air Force pilot and flight instructor, and former RCAF pilot Bill Hind, 85,
SEATTLE, March 27, 2013—During the April 4 Free First Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m., the Museum will celebrate NASA Climate Day with family activities and presentations exploring the science of climate change and what we can do about it.
WARNER ROBINS. GA USA — For the first time in its 29-year history, the Museum of Aviation is downsizing. The museum is getting rid of 29 planes and three missiles, which is about a third of its total collection. Museum
Aircraft descrition from wikipedia.com: Originally conceived as the Curtiss-Robertson CR-2 Coupe shortly before the Curtiss-Wright merger and the dropping of the Curtiss-Robertson brand, it was an all-metal, low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional configuration with fixed tailwheel undercarriage and side-by-side seating for two.
As part of established practices and policies related to the effective stewardship of our collections, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has identified a list of candidate objects which are being made available for transfer to qualified museums and
When the world’s last airworthy Mosquito fighter-bomber crashed at a British air show in 1996, the tragic deaths of the two men on board the Second World War-era plane were compounded by the heartbreaking loss to global aviation heritage. “It’s
A project to restore “Doc,” a vintage B-29 Superfortress, to flying condition has been resurrected by a group of Wichitans called “Doc’s Friends.” The project to restore the bomber, built by Boeing Wichita, has been on hold for several
Source: bezosexpeditions.com What an incredible adventure. We are right now onboard the Seabed Worker headed back to Cape Canaveral after finishing three weeks at sea, working almost 3 miles below the surface. We found so much. We’ve seen an
Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum don’t often get to see the work that goes on behind the scenes. This is especially true in terms of the labor that goes into collecting and caring for their artifacts.