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Article: How air travel took off.(FAMILY TIMES)(FIELD TRIPS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2007
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Byline: Karen Goldberg Goff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Think air travel is a hassle? Try this route: a night train from New York to Columbus, Ohio; then a bumpy plane ride from Ohio to Oklahoma; another night train to Clovis, N.M.; followed by a flight to Los Angeles.
This is how coast-to-coast air travel began in 1929. It has come a long way - despite lost luggage, security hassles and flight delays.
The evolution of air travel is chronicled in "America by Air," a new permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on the Mall. The exhibit shows how air travel went from something exotic and expensive (that patched-together New ...