Airplane, airport, and aviation followers around the globe 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 International Airport (SJC) is internet hosting its second annual SJC National Aviation Week celebration and QR Scavenger Hunt by means of September 4, 2023.

SJC passengers can seek for clues on QR codes all through SJC’s terminals for an opportunity to win one in all 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 tips on how to enter as a contestant. You may submit one entry per particular person per clue, so when you scan all 10 clues, you could have 10 probabilities to win.

Aviation Museums Price a Go to

Choose a museum…

From the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC to the fabulous Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, there are lots of of museums across the nation devoted totally to aviation or which have an aviation part.

Listed here are a couple of aviation museums which were in contact with the Caught on the Airport museum crew lately.

Kansas Aviation Museum

The larger Wichita, Kansas area lays claims to being the Air Capital of the World, with pioneering plane producers and all method of aviation-related improvements.

Find out about that historical past on the Kansas Aviation Museum, which is housed within the historic Wichita Municipal Airport terminal. Indoor exhibits function quite a lot 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 means of Earhart’s life and accomplishment, the museum is house to Muriel – the world’s final remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E.

The restored aircraft is equivalent to the aircraft Earhart flew on her last flight. Muriel is known as after Amelia’s youthful sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Nationwide WWI Museum and Memorial

The National WW1 Museum and Memorial in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri obtained in contact to remind us that in WW1 scorching air balloons and dirigibles have been important in spying on enemies and distributing propaganda throughout enemy traces.

The museum’s web site has a terrific part on the history of air balloons and the American Balloon Section 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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