The museum welcomes
you to its aviation wing. Look around to find the men and machines
behind the story of flight. Were these pioneers heroic or foolhardy?
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.
Rocket Racing
- Will this new, dangerous sport catch on?
Nazi Flying Saucers
- Hitler and the Third Reich led Europe into a decade of terror
that culminated in World War II. The Germans developed an amazing
array of secret weapons in a short time. Were flying discs part
of the Luftwaffe arsenal? And if so, was this secret looted and
used by the Allied victors after the war?
Area 51 - Did the
home of super secret military aircraft also hide flying saucers?