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The National Air and Space Museum,Hap Arnold’s charisma had persuaded Congress to authorize a National Air Museum. His dowry of aircraft provided by the United States Air Force had also made this the best-endowed museum of aviation in the world. For the Smithsonian he had created a quagmire of problems.CARE 发表于 2025-3-27 03:49:25
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Searching for a Home to Display the ,,While we at the museum were searching for a site best suited to displaying the ., there were plenty of others who were willing to find such a site for us—usually with the aim of wresting ownership of the aircraft from the Smithsonian. Most of the veterans who were so inclined favored Offutt Air Force Base, at Omaha, Nebraska.平项山 发表于 2025-3-27 13:11:19
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An Enthusiastic Advocate,I can’t pinpoint the day in the summer of 1988 on which Luc Smith first strolled into my office with Bob Faron. For the next two years we would be dealing extensively with both men.HEED 发表于 2025-3-27 17:51:30
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Only Five Old Men,Over the years, a handful of men persistently wrote to anyone they thought would listen and might act. In one of his letters, a member of this group referred to himself and his comrades as “only five old men.” But those five were to prove remarkably influential on the fate of the exhibition.恶臭 发表于 2025-3-28 02:18:58
The Script,In late July 1993, the museum had reached tentative agreement on how the . should be exhibited. The planning document tried to spell that out in sixteen double-spaced pages. But those pages conjured up different expectations in each of us—Bob Adams, Monroe Hatch, the curators, and myself, to say nothing of the Japanese.cumulative 发表于 2025-3-28 09:55:30
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A Battle for the Museum Extension,nd Storage Facility were unheated, with leaky roofs and nesting birds and insects. The pursuit of the extension, however, was difficult. A fierce competition for ownership ensued and seriously delayed our plans for mounting the exhibition on the .