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A Lot of Wright During the Unprecedented 2020Aviation Hall of Fame – Sumpter Smith ANG Base • Blue Skies & Tailwinds – William Barnes • A New Look for the Aero L-39C • The Bushby Mustang • Before the Memphis Belle
Veterans Day PerspectivesThe Father of Veterans Day • Armistice Day and Raymond Weeks • The CIA Shadow Gallery Make-Over • CIA Officer with a Paintbrush
November 1, 2020
AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE EXHIBITS & ARTIFACTS AT THE MUSEUMNew Diorama For Early Aviation Hangar • Bellanca’s & Lindbergh • Aerial Reconnaissance Article • The Museum’s Reconnaissance Inventory
January 1, 2021
February 1, 2022
On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native andgraduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with abachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entranceexams for the U. […]
January 1, 2022
n January 5, 1967, a sister-ship of our museum’sLockheed A-12 (Article 131) was returning from atraining flight to the now well-known CIA’s advancedaviation research facility base […]
December 1, 2021
Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flight of the Wright Flyer I, heavier-thanair powered aircraft built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. It took place on […]
After several unsuccessful attempts, on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Orville Wright completed the first powered flight of a heavierthan-air aircraft known as the Wright Flyer. The flight lasted just 12 seconds, traveled 120 feet, and reached a top speed of 6.8 miles per hour.
