• Inside a large aviation hangar with a polished concrete floor, three people work to attach the wing of an early airplane to the green-painted fabric and wood fuselage. A hydraulic lift holds with wing securely as it's lowered toward the fuselage.
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    The Museum has a Fokker D.VII, one of the combat airplanes most feared by Allied pilots during the Great War. Working in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, Museum staff reassembled the German monoplane by mating the wing to the fuselage.

  • Inside a large aviation hangar with a polished concrete floor, three people work to attach the wing of an early airplane to the green-painted fabric and wood fuselage. A hydraulic lift holds with wing securely as it's lowered toward the fuselage.

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February 01, 2023

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Mark Avino

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