Stories of daring, stories of technological feats, stories of prevailing against the odds ... these are the stories we tell at the National Air and Space Museum. Dive in to the stories below to discover, learn, and be inspired. 

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September 21, 2022 40 Years Building a Dream Story | Air & Space Quarterly

Al Casby is not only working to restore a Vought F7U Cutlass, but its reputation as well.

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September 21, 2022 Remote (Controlled) Story | Air & Space Quarterly

Antarctica’s environment is the most extreme on our planet. Now, an aerial revolution has begun with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying in this challenging environment. 

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September 21, 2022 Captain Midnight to the Rescue! Story | Air & Space Quarterly

In the 1930s and '40s aviation-themed radio programs attracted huge audiences.

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September 21, 2022 Drones at Dead Heart Story | Air & Space Quarterly

Linear dunes—desert formations stretching miles in length, which account for 40 percent of the dunes on Earth. UAVs are revolutionizing scientists ability to conduct fieldwork. They can collect high-resolution, high-fidelity data to analyze the nature of a variety of features. 

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September 09, 2022 The Roar of the Crowd Story

The first air races, meets, and flight exhibitions kicked off a wave of public enthusiasm for aviation that circled the globe.

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August 23, 2022 By Air or Rail? Why Not Both! Story

In 1929, Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) started passenger service between New York and Los Angeles using a combination of trains and planes.

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August 11, 2022 AirSpace Season 6, Ep. 7: Look at the Sky Story | AirSpace Podcast

Skywriting is something you might witness at the beach, or a sporting event, or an outdoor concert. A popular form of aerial advertising and even the occasional marriage proposal, skywritten messages can have a BIG impact (and with letters approximately 1500 feet tall… we mean that quite literally).  But maybe you didn’t know that it originated with the military and dates wayyy back to the early days of aviation in 1910. This episode will be your exhaustive look into everything you’d want to know about skywriting – how it works, who does it, the most popular examples, and even its code of conduct. And to learn all about it, we speak to a skywriting pilot whose family has been in the business since nearly the beginning.

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August 04, 2022 Northrop P-61 Black Widow: First American Airplane Designed and Built to Fight at Night, Part I Story

Getting all the components of a complex aircraft to fit and function satisfactorily required more than a year of careful design work, however on January 30, 1942, the Army Air Corps awarded Northrop a contract to build two XP-61 prototypes. Rediscover the Black Widow on the 80th anniversary year of its first flight.

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July 26, 2022 Operation Migration Story

Canadians Bill Lishman and Joe Duff founded Operation Migration in 1994 to teach captive-reared birds to migrate by following the Cosmos Phase II ultralight aircraft.

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July 25, 2022 The Age of the Bizjet Story

Corporations around the world depend on airplanes.

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