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Young Aviators Take Flight: Inspiring the Next Generation at Vintage Flying Machines Fly-In

In recent years, the warbird community has made remarkable efforts to create opportunities for young people to get involved in vintage aviation. Across museums and flying organizations throughout the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Personal Flying Machines of the Future Won’t Look Much Like Jet Packs

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...
insider.si.edu

Flying machines : construction and operation : a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship / by W.J ...

NASM copy 39088008693905 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. NASM copy 39088016868143 has Smithsonian Institution Libraries bookplate: Gift of Leonard J. Raymond. Contents Ch. 1. Evolution of the ...
Hyperallergic

Wright Brothers' 1903 Flying Machine Patent, Lost for Decades, Will Go on Display

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...