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Early Flight uses artifacts to explore how in one short decade people in America and around the world were turning the aircraft into a technology that would usher in the aerial age.

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Medal, Commemorative, Boston to Washington, D.C., July 1911

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Medal, Circuit de L'Est

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Medal, Aero Club of America Aviation Medal of Merit, Glenn Curtiss

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Medal, Louis Bleriot

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Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Glenn Curtiss

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Medal, Count von Zeppelin

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Medal, A. Santos Dumont Pioneer of the Air

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Medal, Chavez Flies the Alps, 1910

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Medal, Gordon Bennett Championship, Glenn Curtiss

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National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, DC

202-633-2214

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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