Details about the closed exhibition, as well as the original exhibition description, can be found below.
The people who pushed the technological or social limits of flight during the 1920s and 30s.
This gallery contained an impressive, eclectic assortment of aircraft and exhibits. A common theme united them: all have to do with people who pushed the existing technological—or social—limits of flight. Each aircraft or exhibit represented an unprecedented feat, a barrier overcome, a pioneering step.
Things to see here included the Fokker T-2, the airplane that made the first nonstop, coast-to-coast flight across the United States; the Douglas World Cruiser Chicago, which completed the first round-the-world flight; a Lockheed Sirius flown by Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and a Lockheed Vega flown by Amelia Earhart; the Explorer II high-altitude balloon gondola; and "Black Wings," an exhibit on African Americans and aviation.
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