Flying a Flivver: Curtiss-Wright Junior
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Free, Parking $15
Presenter: Dorothy Cochrane
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Free, Parking $15
Presenter: Dorothy Cochrane
When learning to fly, you can't start with a Boeing 747 or an SR-71. You want a plane that is light, easy-to-fly, safe, and inexpensive. At the beginning of the "everyman" aircraft movement, planes meeting these criteria, called flivvers, were created to encourage more people to take up flying. Join curator Dorothy Cochrane as she discusses the Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior, and how it quickly became the most popular flivver-type airplane of the 1930s and an important milestone of early flight.
Meet at the nose of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.
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