
The museum welcomes
you to it's newest hall: The Aviation Wing. Look around to find
the men and machines behind the story of flight. Were these pioneers
heroic or foolhardy?
Those Fabulous
and Foolhardy Flyers (Part 1)- Flight from Icarus
to Orville and Part 2 - Flight
From Wilber to War. Part 3 -
The Warbirds of W.W. 1.
The Mystery
of the Hindenburg Disaster - It was the biggest thing that
ever flew. Was its fiery end the result of an accident or sabotage?
Strange
Aircraft From the Early Years of Flight - Many early builders
took a trial and error approach to their designs. Check out some
of the results.
Gustave
Whitehead - Did
he Beat the Wright Brothers into the Sky?
Real Flying
Saucers - Disc shaped aircraft through the ages.
Crossing the Atlantic
By Air - On July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot stunned the
world by using an airplane to cross the English Channel. Only
ten years later the first men to fly the Atlantic would tackle
a distance of over one-hundred times greater than that of the
Channel flight and incalculably more dangerous.
Amelia
Earhart's Last Flight - The record breaking
American aviator disappears in the Pacific without a trace.
The
Mystery Airship of 1896 - What was the strange
light seen crusing through the 19th Century American skies?
What
Happened to the Rocket Belt?- It's been around
for more than forty years. Why can't I fly one?
Rocket Racing
- Will this new, dangerous sport catch on?
Copyright Lee
Krystek 2005. All Rights Reserved.