Our curators talk about their favorite artifacts. The SR-71’s undeniable wow factor.
minutes, 32 seconds; Kansas City to Washington, D.C., in 25 minutes, 59 seconds; Los
plane to the first of its records, now inscribed on the side of its fuselage: ‘Los
Conroy and Clay Lacy, flying with five observers, covered 5,005 statute miles from Los
On June 2,1933, Hawks set a west-east nonstop record in his Gamma, flying from Los
He then sold it to Fairchild Aerial Surveys (FAS) of Los Angeles.
Later, it flew on the transcontinental route between Cleveland and Los Angeles.
This includes information on the other two helicopter carriers, Los Angeles Airways
It is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
(presented to Los Angeles Council of Engineers and Scientists [LACES], 3 Apr 1975
This past September, the National Championship Air Races took a final lap in the Reno, Nevada venue.
When he got back to Los Angeles, he discovered that his friend, airplane dealer
