Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian’s Hollywood Moment

The makers of Night at the Museum took great pains to get it right.

Earhart poses in a Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro in 1931.

The 1903 Wright Flyer

Find out why the world's first controllable airplane was a bear to control.

The Original

How the 1903 Flyer got where it is today.

Amercan idol: Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

An American Obsession

When she vanished-70 years ago this July-she was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart?

Passenger Thomas Selfridge (left) and Orville Wright prepare to take off at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. They crashed soon after, and Selfridge became the first air fatality.

Under the Hood of a Wright Flyer

Aviation historians and restorers get a rare peek at a 98-year-old engine.

I Have Today Seen Wilbur Wright and his Great White Bird

The airplane debuted to rave reviews.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Lights! Camera! Smithsonian!

Visit the sites and artifacts that inspired the film, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Air & Space Videos

A Dash Through the Clouds, 1912

This Mack Sennett silent comedy includes rare footage of a Wright Model B piloted by Phil Parmelee.

Wright B Over Manhattan

In the winter of 1912, Frank Coffyn filmed the first silent motion pictures of New York ever taken from an airplane.

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Air & Space Panorama

Onboard the 1909 Wright Military Flyer

A panoramic view from the passenger's side.

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Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has been delighting aerospace enthusiasts with the best writing about their favorite subject since April 1986. As an adjunct of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Air & Space matches the grand scope of the Museum, encompassing every era of aviation and space exploration. With stories that range from the Wright Brothers to the design of NASA's next lunar lander, Air & Space emphasizes the human stories as well as the technology of aviation and spaceflight.