Family Day for Pioneers of Flight Exhibition November 20, 2010

To celebrate the re-opening of the newly updated Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery, the Museum is hosting a Family Day. Activities will focus on the 1920s and 1930s, formative decades in aviation when flight technology rapidly advanced; military and civilian aviation grew tremendously; record-setting and air racing captured public interest; African Americans began to breach the social barriers of flight; and modern rocketry was born. See actors portray famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and African American aviation pioneer William J. Powell, Jr. Meet Tuskegee Airmen; members of the women's aviator group the Ninety Nines; Sally Macready Wallace, daughter of Fokker T-2 pilot John A. Macready; and Museum curators who created the gallery. Watch presentations by the Northern Virginia Association of Rocketry (NOVAAR) and the Seattle World Cruiser Project. Listen to story time about hot air balloons and catch a puppet show. Enjoy plenty of interactive fun, including a chance to earn your "pilot's wings" by completing a variety of hands-on activities. Learn about issues in conservation from the Washington Conservation Guild.