After a year of dormancy, Fantasy of Flight, Kermit Weeks’ vintage aviation attraction in Polk City, Florida, has reopened to the public in a limited fashion. “We have opened a small scale museum housed in our former maintenance hangar,” explains Kandice Stephens, operations and events manager for Fantasy of Flight. “We will have 11 to […]
Museums
Goodyear donates blimp gondola to museum
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company will donate the gondola from the Spirit of Goodyear blimp to the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum of the Western Reserve Historical Society. “Adding this gondola to our Setting the World in Motion display will allow us to continue telling a complete story of the innovators and […]
Air Force museum expands Tuskegee Airmen exhibit
DAYTON, Ohio – The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is expanding the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit. Located in the museum’s World War II Gallery, the exhibit honors the black military pilots, navigators, bombardiers, armorers, maintainers, trainers, administrators and support personnel who fought during World War II. The U.S. military remained racially segregated during the […]
Seattle museum’s Super Jet gets new moniker for Super Bowl
SEATTLE — As the Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots Sunday in the Super Bowl, the Museum of Flight will temporarily rename one of its iconic fighter jet aircraft for that day —and that day only — from Skyhawk to Seahawk. Curator Dan Hagedorn said, “We wouldn’t normally engage in such activities but, given the circumstances, we have […]
Museum’s moving day
SEATTLE — The Museum of Flight Airpark is getting a new home, and moving day is Jan. 31. Three aircraft — the Concorde, Air Force One and Lockheed Constellation — will be towed across the street to join the Boeing 787 Dreamliner already parked next to the museum. Beginning Feb. 14 the airpark will be adjacent to the museum’s […]
National Air and Space Museum lowers ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ to ground level
For the first time in more than 20 years, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has lowered Charles Lindbergh’s Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” to the floor. The famous aircraft will remain on the floor at eye level for visitors to see for approximately five months while it undergoes preservation work before being […]
Museum to host play about ‘Flying Daredevil’
WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. – The New England Air Museum will hold an original play by Alison Moncrief Bromage featuring the Connecticut aviation pioneer and daredevil, Charles Hamilton. The play will be performed on the following dates at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm: Sunday, January 18, 2015 Sunday, February 15, 2015 Sunday, March 15, 2015 Sunday, June […]
Explore ‘movie star’ C-17 and more on Air Force museum app
DAYTON, Ohio — As you take a 360° tour inside the cargo area of the C-17 on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, you’ll notice typical items you’d see in many aircraft – cargo seats, a pallet, even a bumper sticker that says “I love flying.” But look closer and you’ll […]
Aviation in the movies
Aviation in the movies will be the focus of the Living History Flying Day Saturday, Jan. 3, at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif. Beginning at 10 a.m., The Living History Day will feature the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Featured speakers are Mark Carlson, author of “Flying On Film: A Century of Aviaiton in […]