The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum welcomed the Boeing S-307 Stratoliner to its new home, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Originally built in the late 1930s, the four-engine Stratoliner was the world’s first pressurized passenger airplane, allowing it to fly at altitudes of 20,000 feet, which was unprecedented for that era. The sole survivor […]
The Boeing 707 that served as an Air Force One aircraft for 28 years is on its way to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The airplane was disassembled at San Bernardino International Airport (California) and transported to Simi Valley, where it will be reassembled, restored and put on public display beginning […]
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There are now 19 airplanes hanging in the soon-to-be-completed National Air & Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport. The first, the Loudenslager Stevens Akro Laser 200, was lifted by crane and hung by a cable from one of the aviation hangar’s 10-story-high-arched trusses. Other aircraft include Al Williams’ Grumman Gulfhawk […]
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