For the Spring 2024 issue of Air and Space Quarterly, I was asked to write about one of my favorite artifacts in the National Air and Space Museum.
It was not a difficult choice.
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Check out the article online here, or in the print edition, for a rundown on the history of the Museum’s Blackbird.