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Flight School restarts its engines at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The second of four live and interactive electronic field trips, Higher, Faster, Farther! examines how the knowledge of the forces of flight inspired engineers and aviators to go higher, faster, and farther than ever before.

From propellers to jet engines, from subsonic to supersonic speeds, explore revolutionary innovations in flight speed, distance, and aviation technology as well as showcase many of the pioneering women and men of yesterday and today who made it all possible.

Just 44 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk, Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier with the Bell X-1. A few years later, the Boeing 707 ushered in the age of mass commercial air service—air travel as we know it today. Join us for a look at the visionaries and record breakers who continue the growth of aviation.

Time: 45 minutes