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Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air (WWI Aviation)

November 13, 1991 - Permanent

Museum: Air and Space Museum

Location: Gallery 206, 2nd Floor, West Wing

This gallery features the emergence of air power in World War I and reexamines the reality and  the romantic image of this war.

Highlights include:

• Voisin VIII: early type of night bomber, 1915
• SPAD XIII: French fighter aircraft also used by Americans
• Fokker D.VII: considered the best German fighter aircraft of WWI
• Albatros D.Va: German fighter aircraft that flew on all fronts during WWI
• Pfalz D.XII: built to replace the outdated Albatros D.Va
• Sopwith Snipe: British aircraft considered one of the best all-around single-seat fighters, although it came quite late in the war
• German factory scene: WWI mass-production techniques, with original equipment
• A model of the Spruce Goose and several artifacts related to its construction (outside the gallery)

Small theater with video presentations

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