• Flight suit, scarf, helmet, and goggles displayed next to Tuskegee Airmen graphic
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    Chauncey Spencer’s flight jacket and gear were essential for flying in open-cockpit airplanes. In 1939 Spencer completed a celebrated flight from Chicago to New York to Washington D.C., to promote racial equality in civil and military aviation.

    Located in the "Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery."

  • Flight suit, scarf, helmet, and goggles displayed next to Tuskegee Airmen graphic

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November 09, 2010

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Eric Long

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NASM2011-00690

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