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Orlando: You could say a giant movie star of sorts has arrived at the renowned Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
A full-size - but fictional - X-wing Starfighter with a 11-metre wingspan will hang in a museum that already displays famous historical aircraft from space travel to the Wright Brothersâ first powered flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
âThe museum has long had an interest in the themes of inspiration and imagination,â Margaret Weitekamp, a Smithsonian curator, said.
A Star Wars X-wing fighter is being constructed and conserved next to a World War II-era air plane in the Smithsonianâs restoration hangar.
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Orlando: You could say a giant movie star of sorts has arrived at the renowned Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
A full-size - but fictional - X-wing Starfighter with a 11-metre wingspan will hang in a museum that already displays famous historical aircraft from space travel to the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
“The museum has long had an interest in the themes of inspiration and imagination,” Margaret Weitekamp, a Smithsonian curator, said.
A Star Wars X-wing fighter is being constructed and conserved next to a World War II-era air plane in the Smithsonian’s restoration hangar.
Smithsonian curator in heaven over arrival of ‘Star Wars’ X-wing: It’s ‘one of the moments where my kids think I’m cool’
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
This X-wing Starfighter appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and is on long-term loan from Lucasfilm. It is pictured here in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA on May 3, 2021. It will go on display, fully assembled, in 2022 in the museum s flagship building on the National Mall. (Smithsonian photo by Jim Preston/Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum/TNS)TNS
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