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Month: March 2013

Seattle Museum of Flight to host Commercial Space Symposium

Seattle Museum of Flight to host Commercial Space Symposium

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

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Flying Heritage Collection’s Hellcat takes flight (video)

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Seattle Museum of Flight Joins World Celebration of “Yuri’s Night”

Yuri's Night parties and events are held around the world every April in commemoration of April 12, 1961, the day of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's first manned spaceflight, and April 12, 1981, the inaugural launch of NASA's space shuttle. For more information about Yuri's Night parties around the world: Yuri's Night World Space Party. Image: The Museum of Flight Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. Ted Huetter/The Museum of Flight, Seattle.

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

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Chocks away! Air museum is all ready for take-off

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

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$1,000,000 Challenge For Salina Air Museum

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

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Seattle Museum of Flight presents Aviation Artist Jim Dietz Lecture and Book Signing

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

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Memories plentiful as 100-year-old pilot tours aviation museum

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,

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Seattle Museum of Flight Celebrates NASA Climate Day April 4

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.

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Museum of Aviation dropping 32 aircraft

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

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Kermit Weeks acquires Curtiss Wright 19R

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.

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Smithsonian offers objects for transfer to Museums and Educational Organizations

Smithsonian offers objects for transfer to Museums and Educational Organizations

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

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Canada’s ‘Wooden Wonder’ making glorious comeback

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

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‘Doc’s Friends’ tackles restoration of vintage B-29

  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

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Amazon.com’s Bezos Expedition recovers Apollo F-1 rocket engines

  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

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Removing Items from the Collection at the National Air and Space Museum

  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.

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