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Bob Hoover Gives an Air Show Performance

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Twin-engined Douglas DC-3 aircraft hanging in museum

Douglas DC-3

Bell AH-1F Cobra helicopter with machine gun in front

Bell AH-1F Cobra

Two circlular indentations on side of rounded nose of black titanium North American x-15 aircraft

Flow Direction Sensor from the North American x-15

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Bees and Aviation: STEM in 30 Mission Debrief

January 23, 2020
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Buzz the Tower: How Bees Influence Aviation

January 16, 2020
View of the Retro-reflector array.

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector Array

View of an engine with an American flag logo on an airplane.

Boeing 247 American Flag

View of the Retro-reflector array attached to the base of the unit.

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector Array

Red and blue painted plane. From this angle, you can see the propellers, landing gear, and fuselage of the plane.

Sukhoi Su-26m

Corner-cube mirrors connected to base of a Laser Ranging Retroreflector

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector

Surface view of a ranger Retro-Reflector.

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector

View of an open nose of an airplane.

Boeing 247 Nose

Side view of a white pallet with raised 100 lens laser reflector, training unit, Apollo 11.

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector

Close up image of an Air Express logo.

Boeing 247 Air Express logo

Lift gears of a Retro-Reflector.

Apollo Laser Ranger Retro-Reflector Gears

View of an engine of an airplane.

Boeing 247 Engine

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National Air and Space Museum

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

202-633-2214

Free Timed-Entry Passes Required

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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