Videos from the SDASM Speaker series, a video presentation by Museum experts discussing their favorite artifacts or historical events.
The Air & Space Museum’s Special Guest Speaker, Cam Martin, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the rocket-powered Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis. Best known for making the first supersonic flight in level flight 76 years ago on October 14, 1947, piloted by Capt. Chuck Yeager. Cam’s presentation covers the origins of the Bell X-1 program and concludes with some popular and enduring myths associated with this iconic machine.
Video from the SDASM Speaker series, a presentation by Museum experts discussing their favorite artifacts or historical events. Retired Engineer, Scientist, and SDASM docent Maud Rao talks about aviation pioneers who contributed their dreams, ideas, work, and enthusiasm but did not finish first and have been mostly forgotten by history. Trailblazers such as Jacque Charles, Arthur Latham, and the La Societe Antoinetteo challenged the first hot air balloon and first to cross the English Channel, only to come in second. Then there were the nine aviators competing with Charles Lindbergh for the Orteig Prize.
SDASM Digital Archivist Alan Renga, talks about the History of Aviation in San Diego, from John Montgomery to the present day. Topics also include, Women in Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Ryan Aircraft, Pacific Southwest Airlines and the Atlas Missile.
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