By Stewart Bailey, Curator Speed is life. This has been the simple dictum of combat pilots since the early days of World War I, for speed makes it possible to control when and where an air combat would take place or allow a pilot to flee and fight another day. Thus, as the clouds of war were gathering over Europe in the 1930s, aircraft designers in both England and Nazi Germany began to look to a new type of power…
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A focus on Mars
By Amy Quick, Director of Membership The short nights of June offer a magnificent array of beautiful astronomical alignments. Mars slips past Regulus, the brightest star of Leo, early in the month, with Venus moving past the twin stars of Gemini soon after. A partial lunar eclipse on the 26th of the month completes one of the best sky watching months of the year. Mars, our next door neighbor named for the ancient Roman god of war, is the fourth…
Apr
7
A Special Visitor
By Kasey Richter, PR and Marketing Coordinator One thing I’ve learned during my time at the Museum is how all-encompassing a person’s passion for aviation can be. Having had limited interaction with aviators throughout my life, it was a humbling experience to come into contact with the particular breed of person who lives for the thrill and the knowledge of the sky. No matter the aviator’s age, his or her eyes will light up when they walk through the Museum’s…
By Philip Jaeger, Director of Operations This interview took place with James Neihouse, director of photography and astronaut trainer for Hubble 3D, on April 3, 2010. How did you get involved with IMAX? I was lucky enough to work on my first IMAX film right out of film school. It was the IMAX Dome film OCEAN that was being made for the Ruben Fleet Space Theater in San Diego, Calif. I was working for a small production company in Santa…
Mar
11
A Fledgling gets its wings
By Stewart Bailey, curator 1929 Curtiss Fledgling During the first week of March, visitors that came to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum had the rare opportunity to see an aircraft being built right before their eyes. The subject of this unusual activity was the Museum’s newest restoration project, the 1929 Curtiss Fledgling, which was donated last summer by Gladys Burrill and her family. The Fledgling was originally designed by Curtiss in 1927 to meet a U.S. Navy requirement for…
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