Became the highlight of the century. We will be looking at this story of the higher, and faster and farther of aviation, but first i want to talk about the Aerospace Museum overall. It has over 8 million visitors a year between the National Mall building, and so looking at the story of the atmosphere that i am working in, we are looking at 500 aircraft and helicopters. Of those aircraft. 67 are on display in the National Mall building and what is supporting the artifacts is 67,000 small and medium artifacts, but what we will talk about today is the story of higher, faster and farther which is seen as a cliche throughout the history of aviation, but it has a real meaning to it. And in which we look at the people who made the quest of flying in the third dimension a reality. And so, the idea of flying the highest altitude and the fastest speed and the longest distances tells us a lot about the Technical Development of the airplane, and also the invention of the Wright Brothers and what t
The army and we are at the womens memorial in arlington cemetery. Its the only major memorial thats dedicated to women who served their country. We have over 3 million women who have worn the uniform of the United States. This memorial was dedicated in 1997. Over 40,000 people lined memorial avenue from the bridge to the memorial. Women from world war i through the current times in 1997. The memorial is on 4. 2 acres of park service land. Behind me, though, you can see the head stones of Arlington National cemetery and that surrounds the park service land. The memorial is composed of the Education Center, a court of valor, terrorists that has glass tablets with quotations about women and by women. Theres a pool where we have ceremonies on especially memorial day for women who have fallen. There is a line going from the Lincoln Memorial. You can see it as it comes up Memorial Drive with stones. As it goes through our memorial up to our fountain and through the memorial, there are black
So if you are running to go to this particular area, be advised, there is a traffic delay in effect and highway 101. President ial hopefuls are hitting the campaign trail in california today. Democratic antedates Michael Bloomberg are here in the play area. K tvs has more from walnut creek. Reporter were down the street from the event center were Democratic Candidates will address a room full of voters. We are told he will get a short speech. 200 to 500 people are expected to crowd the venue to hear from the bay area a billionaire. Era groups organized the event. They invited all candidates for town hall events and hosted over the summer. The president of the crystal to address Climate Change in healthcare reform along with other topics. We are looking forward to december debate. And so we think that we will get a preview of that. We have very engaged political activists in this club. In throughout. This is an executive and first. Reporter it is for Michael Bloomberg. Prospectus mornin
To the invention of supersonic aircrafts the push for whats possible, revolutionized travel. What was once novel yes even dangerous has become commonplace bordering on monday. And is year over year the safest way to travel the world, in 2018 along the, u. S. And Foreign Airlines kara come by one billion passengers, roughly one ace of the entire global population. Right now i can fly from d. C. Texas in last than 100 dollars. We have democratized transportation in the way the right brothers, could never imagined. This evolution has not without challenges, from deadly often preventable crashes to, simply setting up a system that managed to traffic, we have had ingenious safer machines, crashing, inland new system to meet our really neat. In short, we have to adapt as the landscape changes. Which brings us to the topic of today, improving and modernize air Traffic Control for the American People i. Want to make clear from the start that i am sure the air Traffic Control, efforts from prev
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