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Legends of the Sky to Premiere at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's Lockheed Martin IMAX® Theater in March 2009
- 2008-07-28
The Stephen Low Film Emphasizes Aviation History, Milestone Designs, Advanced Production Techniques and Unprecedented Flying Sequences - As the Planes of the Past Set the Stage for the Debut of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A-380 EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Building upon the success of more than 150...
Iraqi Bird Study to Help Reduce Aircraft Mishaps
- 2008-05-19
One of the U.S. Air Force's greatest airpower adversaries doesn't wear the uniform of another country; it wears feathers. Both deadly and expensive, aircraft accidents and mishaps caused by collisions with birds have cost the service approximately $35 million each year since 1985, according to USAF...
Fighter prepares to land at Combat Air Museum
- 2007-11-07
By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A Russian-made fighter aircraft won't be displaying its speed Thursday when it cruises into the Combat Air Museum at Forbes Field. In fact, it won't be moving forward at all. Sporting the name "Ivanka" as nose art,...
Pathfinder-Plus Solar Aircraft Lands in Smithsonian
- 2007-02-26
To: SCIENCE EDITORSContact: Alan Brown of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, +1-661- 276-2665, alan.brown@dfrc.nasa.gov; Steven Gitlin of AeroVironment, +1-626-357-9983, gitlin@avinc.com; or Peter Golkin of National Air and Space Museum, +1-202-633-2374, Golkinp@si.edu WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pathfinder-Plus, the pioneering solar-electric flying wing that set several altitude records for propeller-driven aircraft...
Feathers, beaks, feet and … "snarge?"
- 2006-10-01
OK, before we get started, I need to warn you that this may get just a little bit graphic. We're going to discuss mangling birds and other wildlife with our aircraft or other means, then we're going to talk about picking up the little bloody pieces of meat, feathers and...
Conquering "snarge": an update from the Feather Lab
- 2004-09-01
In 2003, the Feather Identification Laboratory at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History received a record number of bird strike cases for accurate species identification (2042 Air Force cases and 286 cases for civil aviation). Although most of these identifications were completed using whole feathers or feather parts,...
Up in the air
- 2004-01-11
CHANTILLY, Va. -- The Enola Gay and a supersonic Concorde. A Blackbird spy plane and the space shuttle Enterprise. All these and many other flying machines can be found in the dazzling exhibits of history and technology at the Smithsonian Institution's new National Air and Space Museum. Dozens...
Bird strike DNA
- 2003-09-01
The Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution has discovered DNA. Well ... we're going to be using it in our BASH efforts anyway! The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is joining the U.S. Air Force's feather identification program at the Smithsonian Institution to identify species of birds that collide...
Restored Enola Gay unveiled
- 2003-08-19
DULLES, Va. -- The Smithsonian Institution unveiled a restored Enola Gay on Monday, making the B-29 bomber that helped end World War II the centerpiece of the new annex to the Air and Space Museum. The restoration, the result of 300,000 hours of work over nearly 20 years,...
French Concorde given to museum
- 2003-06-13
CHANTILLY, Va. -- Air France turned the oldest of its Concordes over to the Smithsonian Institution Thursday for display near Washington's Dulles International Airport. The 27-year-old aircraft, once seen as the future of passenger air travel, made the last of its 6,967 trips when it flew from Paris...
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