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Our newest gallery in the Aviation Museum and Library is open! (And doesn’t it look great?). Its inaugural exhibition, “Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s,” presents two groundbreaking engines and two related propellers, along with historical documentation of two exceptional endurance aircraft and the resolute aviators who flew them to breakthrough achievements in aviation. “Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” is on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library and online at: https://bit.ly/EnduranceEngines The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security in the International Terminal Side A and is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. This image was posted on June 10, 2022.

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