Meet at the nose of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.

About the Ask an Expert Series: On the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 12:30 pm at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum. For topics of upcoming Ask and Expert talks at the Udvar-Hazy Center, click here.

 The Fleet was a primary training aircraft at the Roosevelt Aviation School, one of the leading civilian aviation schools in the country in the 1930s. One of ten Fleets owned by Roosevelt Field, Inc., Long Island, New York, it was flown by hundreds of student pilots between 1929 and 1942. How to attend