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Topic: Walter Boyne, NASM director (1929-2020)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-10-2020 05:45 PM
   
Bomber pilot and aviation writer Walter Boyne, who from 1983 to 1986 served as director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, died on Thursday (Jan. 9, 2020). He was 90. From the National Aviation Hall of Fame, which inducted Boyne in 2007: Boyne was a nuclear test pilot with the 4925th Nuclear Test Group flying B-47's and B-52's at Kirtland Air Force Base.In 1983, Boyne was named Director of the National Air and Space Museum. Under his tenure he established the Air and Space magazine [and] negotiated an agreement to fly an IMAX camera aboard the Space Shuttle. Boyne co-founded "Wingspan – the Air & Space Channel." Boyne has written more than 1,000 articles, 44 non-fiction books and seven novels, all focused on aviation. |
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