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Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-12-2003 10:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yesterday, I attended the opening of “The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age”, a two-year exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum featuring 170 artifacts, with its centerpiece the original 1903 Wright Flyer, displayed at eye level for the first time since it was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1948.

The exhibit is designed to give the visitor the feeling of stepping back in time to December 17, 1903. Facades of the Wright Brothers' Dayton, Ohio home and their bicycle shop serve as stages for actors performing vignettes which tell the story of the Wrights' adventures.

In addition to the pictures below, I was hoping to keep this thread at least partially space-related by photographing "wood and fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer carried to the moon in 1969 by Apollo 11" as described in the exhibit's press release as part of the gallery. Unfortunately, it was explained by a docent that the doubly-flown artifacts had yet to be installed, so I guess a second visit is in my future.

Larry McGlynn
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posted 10-12-2003 07:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Larry McGlynn   Click Here to Email Larry McGlynn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rob,

Are there any other pictures of the exhibit that show other srtifacts and replicas?

Larry

Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-13-2003 12:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The National Air and Space Museum has a website dedicated to the exhibit, including an artifact gallery:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/

lunarrv15
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posted 10-14-2003 09:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lunarrv15   Click Here to Email lunarrv15     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
what area of the building is the Wright brothers exhibit located?

I visited the Air and Space museum on the mall last month. didn't see block construction area

Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-14-2003 09:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The exhibit is on the second floor, just opposite the exit from the Lockheed Martin IMAX theater (and to the right of "Apollo To The Moon".

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