VA -- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center -- Conservation Hangar:
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- Description of Pictures: National Air and Space Museum Welcomes Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 | 12:30pm
Now on View in Restoration Hangar After Traveling From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will display an X-wing Starfighter in the newly renovated building on the National Mall starting late next year. The full-sized vehicle, with a wingspan of 37 feet, appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and is on long-term loan from Lucasfilm. It will undergo conservation in the Restoration Hangar at the museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, work that will be visible to the public when the center reopens May 5.
“Despite taking place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars introduced generations of fans here on Earth to outer space as a setting for adventure and exploration,” said Margaret Weitekamp, space history chair at the museum. “All air and space milestones begin with inspiration, and science fiction so often provides that spark—the iconic X-wing displayed amid our other spacecraft celebrates the journey from imagination to achievement.”
Designed for Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, X-wings take their name from the distinctive shape of their strike foils when in attack position. Artists at Industrial Light & Magic depicted X-wings and other vehicles using miniatures as well as full-size vehicles and cockpits, combined with visual effects. This will be the first Star Wars movie prop on long-term display at the museum since the Star Wars: Myth of Magic exhibit in 1997.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- AIRC_210518_092.JPG: Mary Baker Engen
Restoration Hangar
Restoration and preservation of our collection are conducted here. The facility is spacious enough to accommodate several aircraft and spacecraft at a time, giving our treatment specialists the room and equipment they need to reconstruct, repair, and preserve artifacts. The Restoration Hangar also houses painting, welding, and other support shops where Museum staff complete the highly specialized tasks necessary to care for the collection.
- AIRC_210518_095.JPG: On the right:
* X Wing Fighter from "Star Wars"
* Mignet M.14 "Flying Flea" 1930's design
* Evel Knievel motorcycle
- AIRC_210518_102.JPG: On the Right:
* WWII B26 bomber "Flak-Bait" flew most US missions
* Lincoln STD 1920's biplane trainer and barnstormer
- AIRC_210518_132.JPG: Straight Ahead:
* Loving WR-3 designed, built, and flown by double amputee Neal Loving
- AIRC_210518_155.JPG: Straight Ahead:
* MK-20 cluster bomb
* Challenger III aerobatic flown by Sean Tucker
* Airway beacon 1930's nav aid
- AIRC_210518_158.JPG: Ahead to left:
* Northrop Alpha 1930's airliner -- 6 passengers inside; pilot sits outside
* Douglas DC-7 forward fuselage 1950's airliner
- AIRC_210518_175.JPG: On the left:
* Explorer II high altitude balloon cabin -- set alt record in 1935 72000 feet
* Lunar recon sat orbiting moon since 2009
- AIRC_210518_187.JPG: On the left:
* Northrop T-38 jet trainer Jackie Cochran set many records in this T-38
- AIRC_210518_199.JPG: Far Left:
* Wright 1909 military flyer world's first military plane. Built and first flown by Wilbur & Orville Wright
- AIRC_210518_534.JPG: Removing the hook
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- Description of Subject Matter: Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar
Summer 2012 – Permanent
Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists reconstruct, repair, and preserve the historic aircraft, spacecraft, and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection. The Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar is spacious enough to accommodate several aircraft at a time. Items currently on view include the Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder "Flak-Bait," which flew 207 missions over Europe during World War II, more than any other American aircraft, and the Apollo Telescope Mount, a solar observatory from Skylab, America’s first space station. A Sikorsky JRS-1, the museum’s only aircraft stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is also visible.
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