Airplane, airport, and aviation followers all over the world are marking Nationwide Aviation Week (August 19 – 25) with all kinds of actions and nods to notable developments within the historical past of aviation.
San Jose Mineta Worldwide Airport (SJC) is internet hosting its second annual SJC Nationwide Aviation Week celebration and QR Scavenger Hunt by September 4, 2023.
SJC passengers can seek for clues on QR codes all through SJC’s terminals for an opportunity to win one among three airport-themed prizes valued at $100 to $500.
10 clues could be discovered on QR codes pre and post-security on the airport and on the SJC scavenger hunt web page, together with instructions on the right way to enter as a contestant. You possibly can submit one entry per particular person per clue, so for those who scan all 10 clues, you could have 10 possibilities to win.
Aviation Museums Value a Go to
Decide a museum…
From the Smithsonian Nationwide Air & Area Museum in Washington, DC to the fabulous Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, there are lots of of museums across the nation devoted solely to aviation or which have an aviation part.
Listed here are a couple of aviation museums which have been in contact with the Caught on the Airport museum group lately.
Kansas Aviation Museum
The better Wichita, Kansas area lays claims to being the Air Capital of the World, with pioneering plane producers and all method of aviation-related improvements.
Study that historical past on the Kansas Aviation Museum, which is housed within the historic Wichita Municipal Airport terminal. Indoor reveals characteristic a wide range of plane, a management tower, reveals on Cessna Beechcraft exhibit, Ryan Worldwide Airways, and extra.
Outside you’ll discover plane starting from a Learjet and a Cessna Quotation to a Boeing 727.
In Atchison, Kanas
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Earhart’s hometown of Atchison, Kansas opened this previous April and sits adjoining to the Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport.
Along with greater than a dozen interactive reveals that take guests by Earhart’s life and accomplishment, the museum is residence to Muriel – the world’s final remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E.
The restored airplane is equivalent to the airplane Earhart flew on her ultimate flight. Muriel is known as after Amelia’s youthful sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.
Nationwide WWI Museum and Memorial
The Nationwide WW1 Museum and Memorial in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri received in contact to remind us that in WW1 scorching air balloons and dirigibles have been vital in spying on enemies and distributing propaganda throughout enemy traces.
The museum’s web site has an amazing part on the historical past of air balloons and the American Balloon Part of the American Expeditionary Forces. And the museum’s assortment consists of all kinds of photos, historic paperwork, and artifacts, together with some uncommon fragments from Zeppelin L49, which was pressured down in France.
From the museum web site:
On the morning of Oct. 19, 1917, 13 Zeppelins, together with L49, have been ordered to “assault center England. Industrial area of Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and so forth.”
L49 was pressured down in France close to Bourbonne-les-Bains by French fighter planes. All crew members survived and have been taken prisoners.
The American soldier who introduced this fragment again as a memento wrote on it that it was acquired in Paris, France, Nov. 13, 1918, two days after the Armistice which halted the combating on the Western Entrance. The French had dismantled the L49 to review its development.
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