Peter L. Jakab

Chairman, Division of Aeronautics

National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560-0312

Research Interests

History of aviation, history of aeronautical engineering, early flight, Wright brothers, World War I aviation, Vietnam War.

Current or Projected Exhibits

The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age, a 2003 centennial exhibition on the Wright brothers invention of the airplane and its culture impact in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Recent Publications

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age, National Geographic Society, 2003; The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.