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Stranger Than Fiction The Incredible Science of Aerospace Medicine

New Museum Exhibit Opening at The Museum of Flight in Seattle

May 19, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

On July 3, The Museum of Flight opens Stranger Than Fiction: The Incredible Science of Aerospace Medicine, a new exhibition about a lofty subject wrapped in a retro SciFi comic book motif. It’s the story […]

Museum of Flight Receives NEH Grant to Work on Lear Collection

April 20, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington has just received a significant grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities which will allow the museum to process, and make more readily available, the massive collection […]

The Museum of Flight is Now in Your Home

March 27, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Given that almost every aviation museum around the globe is currently shuttered due to the pandemic, some of them have been looking for ‘virtual’ ways to remain open online. The Museum of Flight in Seattle, […]

Museum of Flight Presents the Untold Stories of World War II

February 8, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, and throughout the year the Museum is presenting uncommon perspectives of the era with Untold Stories: World War II at 75. Beginning Feb. 29, […]

Museum of Flight Adds CH-47D Chinook

February 3, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

A recently retired, veteran U.S. Army Boeing CH-47D Chinook helicopter will make a new home at the Museum on Feb. 8. Nicknamed My Old Lady, it was the oldest flyable Chinook in the world-wide Army […]

Museum of Flight – New Online Access to Rocketry Archives

November 6, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

In our youth, many among us surely experimented with model rockets, building and launching them, and staring up in wonder as they shot up into the sky, and (hopefully) came back down to earth safely […]

M D 21 Blackbird on view at The Museum of Flight

SR-71 Blackbird Forum at The Museum of Flight

August 28, 2019 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington is holding a special event on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird over the weekend of September 14th/15th featuring more than two dozen personnel involved in flying and maintaining them. […]

The Museum of Flight’s July Programs Celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

July 3, 2019 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Complementing the Museum’s exhibition done in partnership with the Smithsonian, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, showing now through Sept. 2, the To the Moon! program series presents the stories behind the artifacts, […]

Destination Moon Exhibit Opening April 13th at Museum of Flight

March 21, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

As most readers will be aware, July 16th – 24th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first landing of human beings on the lunar surface. As such, many aviation museums […]

Museum of Flight’s Plans for Apollo 11 Space Capsule Columbia

December 13, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

As many of our readers will know, the historic crew capsule which topped the Apollo 11 rocket for Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins’ epic July 1969 journey to the moon has been on […]

Museum of Flight – Seattle