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Video shows Harrison Ford’s Ryan PT-22 moments before crash

Video shows Harrison Ford’s Ryan PT-22 moments before crash

True to the heroes he plays on the big screen, a calm and collected Harrison Ford glided his airplane into a crash landing on a Venice, California golf course Thursday afternoon. Moments before the crash, in audio of his conversation

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Strategic Air & Space Museum’s largest restoration project to date

EC-135C Looking Glass

Ashland, NE — The Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland is anxious to start their largest restoration project to date and kick off their first permanent indoor walk-through exhibit. Marketing and PR Director Deb Hermann says they will restore

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American Air Museum at Duxford’s Imperial War Museum to close for a year

American Air Museum, IWM Duxford

Duxford, UK — The American Air Museum at Duxford has closed for a year to undergo a major redevelopment. The section of The Imperial War Museum (IWM) will be closed until spring 2016 while exhibitions and displays within the building

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Frontiers of Flight Museum museum launches Virtual Tour

Dallas, TX — The Frontiers of Flight Museum museum has launched its Virtual Tour.  Through Google Cultural Institute, the Frontiers of Flight Museum is accessible to anyone, anywhere. The site allows visitors to “walk” though the museum and see 30 aircraft,

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U.S. Air Force resurrects Boneyard B-52 aircraft for the first time

Boneyard

Pima, AZ — For the first time, the U.S. Air Force has resurrected a B-52 bomber that had been in long-term storage at the Boneyard, the portion of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, where the military sends aircraft

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Museum volunteer shares story of service

Museum volunteer shares story of service

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFNS) — It was January 1945, and 21-year-old Lt. Donald Clark found himself piloting a C-47A Skytrain over the Western Front as the Battle of the Bulge was coming to an end. The aircraft was

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Archives Gallery opens at PAF Museum

Archives Gallery opens at PAF Museum

Karachi. Pakistan — Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force inaugurated Archives Gallery at PAF Museum, PAF Base Faisal. Air Vice Marshal Azhar Hassan Rizvi, Air Officer Commanding Southern Air Command, and retired officers

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National Model Aviation Museum Places Rare 1914 Model Airplane on Display

1914 Bing Autoplan Compressed-Air Powered Model Airplane

The National Model Aviation Museum, located at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, IN, is thrilled to announce that the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) has completed the restoration of the Bing Autoplan. This exceptional aircraft is now on display at

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Goodyear Donates Blimp Gondola to Crawford Auto Aviation Museum

Goodyear_blimp_2012

Cleveland, OH — The gondola from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s retired “Spirit of Goodyear” blimp is being donated to the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. “It has been wonderful collaborating with

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American Airpower Museum invites couples to recreate famous kiss

American Airpower Museum invites couples to recreate famous kiss

Farmingdale, NY  – The American Airpower Museum is open this Valentine’s Day and along with two-for-one admission for couples, is inviting couples to recreated the the famous V-J Day Times Square kiss.  The famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays

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Volunteer works to restore B-29 cockpit at aviation museum

B-29 Cockpit

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Museum of Aviation visitors can now get a close-up view of what crew members of the Enola Gay were looking at when they changed history. The Enola Gay was a B-29 Superfortress that dropped an atomic bomb

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Selfie sticks banned by museums

selfie stick

Washington D.C. — Several local museums – including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art – have banned the use of the sticks that help visitors shoot self portraits in the galleries. Others may follow.

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Neil Armstrong’s secret moon memorabilia revealed

Neil Armstrong’s secret moon memorabilia revealed

The Smithsonian recently disclosed that as Neil Armstrong was boarding the Apollo 11 command capsule headed back to Earth, he grabbed a bag of moon memorabilia. It was gear NASA was throwing away, but to historians, what was junk back

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Take-off at last for Concorde museum

Concorde

Bristol, UK — A museum, visitor centre and home for the last Concorde to fly is expected to open in two and half years after the project was awarded a grant of £4.7 million by the National Lottery. The funding

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Peterson Air Force Base Museum aims to expand, needs donors, volunteers

Peterson Air Force Base Museum

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.  —  Right in the middle of Peterson Air Force Base lies a nearly mystical place where the military, civilian community and history intersect, demonstrating how they are intertwined. The Peterson Air and Space Museum captures

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