PRESS RELEASE
The Museum of Flight celebrates Nov. 11 Veterans Day with special programs and free Museum admission for veterans. The featured event is a screening at noon of the short film, The Metal Detector, followed by a discussion with the film’s director and others in the film. The award-winning documentary is about empathy and resilience uniting families in Austria and America with a shared experience involving a B-17 bomber crew from World War II.
The Veterans Day ceremonies also include a live concert by Northwest Swing, and two live presentations of the history of the American flag, 27 Flags. There will also be representatives from several veteran resource organizations onsite all day.
SCHEDULE
- 10:00 am – 5 pm: Veteran Resource Organizations Onsite
- 11:00 am – 11:45 am: 27 Flags
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: The Metal Detector screening, followed by discussion with the film’s director, Brendon Hughes, others involved in the film, plus an audience Q&A.
- 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Concert by Northwest Swing
- 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: 27 Flags
About The Metal Detector
Georg Reutter is an Austrian retiree whose mother witnessed the crash of an Allied B-17 near their home during World War II. When he takes up metal detecting to find the wreckage, a growing fascination leads him to embark on a heartfelt mission, not only to research the backgrounds of the American crew members who parachuted off the plane into enemy territory, but to locate their descendants, to bring them to his Austrian town on the 75th anniversary of the crash, to introduce them to the townspeople who helped their fathers, and to unite his town in remembrance. It’s a story of empathy, resilience, and the enduring power of human connection. Additionally, Brenden P. Hughes, The Metal Detector Producer/Director is an award-winning and critically acclaimed director of numerous plays, operas, podcasts, short films and feature films. You can visit his works at www.brendanhughes.com.
Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, annually serving over 600,000 visitors. The Museum’s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today’s 787 Dreamliner. Attractions at the 23-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer, Air Force One, Concorde, Lockheed Blackbird and Apollo Moon rockets. In addition to the Seattle campus adjacent to King County International Airport, the Museum also has its 3-acre Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field in Everett (not currently open to the public).
With a foundation of aviation history, the Museum is also a hub of news and dialogue with leaders in the emerging field of private spaceflight ventures. The Museum’s aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast. More than 150,000 individuals are served annually by the Museum’s onsite and outreach educational programs. The Museum of Flight is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Angela Decker, from McPherson, Kansas, discovered her passion for aviation after earning a Master’s in Military History from Norwich University in 2011. Since 2012, she has volunteered with vintage aviation groups, excelling as a social media content creator and coordinator. Angela has coordinated aviation and WWII events, appeared as Rosie the Riveter, and is restoring a Stearman aircraft. She is the Operations Logistics Coordinator at CAF Airbase Georgia and an accountant with a degree in Economics from the University of Georgia. Her son, Caden, shares her love for aviation and history and is studying Digital Media Arts.
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