The quest to go higher, faster, and farther during the first halfcentury of aviation. Hi, im jeremy kinney. Were going to go through a tour of some artifacts that really stand out in terms of this story of higher, faster, and farther in the history of aviation. But first i want to talk about the air and space museum overall. The air and space museum has over 8 million visitors a year between the National Mall building and the stephen f. Udvarhazy center. Were looking at over 500 aircraft and helicopters. Of those aircraft, about 67 are on display on the National Mall building. So, what supports these artifacts is up to 60,000 individual small and medium artifacts. But what were going to talk about today is the story of higher, faster, and farther, which is scene sooen as a cliche in many ways throughout the history of aviation but actually has a real meaning to it, in which we look at the people who made this quest of flying in the third dimension a reality. And so, the idea of flying
Drizmal. It works. Grab an umbrella, your raincoat, you will need it. Tom kierein looking at when the showers will be over in your neighborhood. Another word that comes to mind is unimaginable on this sunday morning. We have patchy fog around and a little bit of scattered drizzle and always light rain. There is there is the capitol under the gray sky. Getting a few sprinkles of light rain along the blue ridge and near the pennsylvania border. All this tracking southeast. Right now patches of green are just little scattered areas of drizzle across northern virginia, suburbs of maryland and eastern shore. Its a low to mid50s and well stay this way throughout the day. We have a Traffic Alert to tell you about this morning. You will run into road closures as 8,000 cyclists hit the streets for the inaugural d. C. Bike ride. Take a look at the route. The 17 mile ride will take riders past the washington monday uhe chlt, the washington, over the 14th street bridge, as well. Closures start in
Kevin, and you can see the moving truck crashed near Georgia Avenue and connecticut area. Fire and rescue is urging drivers to slow down and avoid distractions and of course windshield wiper and headlights on. And a tree fell on tennessee avenue in alexandria. Laegs poli the tree fell on a line and cut power to about a dozen homes. A Traffic Alert to tell you about. You will want to avoid most of downtown d. C. Because of road closures. Derrick ward is live in northwest with more on the first ever its kind event happening in the district. Good morning. Well take a look, is this bike d. C. Or d. C. Bike ride. You can go around. Thats fine. So were talking to those not actually participating, but trying to wind their way through the city. Take a look at what the bike backup looks like. There is actually about 1500 they say 8,000 bicyclists taking part. It started over by the 3rd street, pennsylvania avenue, and thats where it will he saiend. Its winding its way through 17 miles. And they
Recounts the competition between the right brothers and Glenn Curtiss to be the man in flight. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you all to the rogers memorial library. My name is penny right im the director of adult programs and we are very delighted to have our discussion tonight by an esteemed acclaimed author. We would like to thank cspan book tv for being here with us this evening and when we progress to the question and answer segment, we will have a handheld microphone for you all to use to ask your questions. We are also grateful to our local independent bookstore for being here this evening as well. We are most happy and grateful however to our visitor and guest laurents goldstone lawrence goldstone. Hes the coauthor of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. Six written with his wife, nancy, and has written extensively on both american and european history. Larry has been widely interviewed on radio an
Investigating, all ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Well, good morning to you, it is another bad morning, sorry to say for bart commuters, live pictures you are looking at, that is that disabled train still sitting on the tracks in arinda in the east bay, damaged in a fire yesterday. It may take hours for the crews to get it out to remove it. Ktvus Christien Kafton is there. He will bring the latest on this in just a couple of minutes. Good morning, welcome to thursday, october 24th, i am dave clark. I am Claudine Wong in for pam cook this morning, lets start you off with a quick look at your weather and traffic and steve, i know i said i liked it cool but dont cool it down too much. Always demand demand yeah bigger fog bank today, bigger yes, in that it is lifting a little bit so even inland areas will come down on the temperatures today because there is a little low approaching, actually a pre