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PRESERVING THE MACHINES THAT ENABLED US TO FLY. FROM THE BEGINNING, MAN HAS DREAMED OF FLYING. RELIVE DRAMATIC MOMENTS IN AVIATION HISTORY AND VISIT THE LARGEST COMPLEX IN THE WORLD DEVOTED TO SAVING YESTERDAY'S AIRCRAFT AND TODAY'S SPACECRAFT, MEET THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO KEEP THE DAYS OF EARLY FLIGHT ALIVE. THIS
EXCITING PROGRAM TAKES VIEWERS ON A VISIT TO THE "SILVER HILL," WHERE HISTORIC AIR AND SPACECRAFT ARE RESTORED AND PRESERVED FOR CENTURIES TO COME, WHERE HANGAR AFTER HANGAR OF AVIATION TREASURES WAIT IN STORAGE. VISIT ITS "NO FRILLS" MUSEUM, WHERE THE SMITHSONIAN'S RESERVE COLLECTION OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT AIR AND SPACECRAFT IS DISPLAYED. LEARN HOW THE MACHINES THAT ENABLED US TO FLY EVOLVED OVER THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS. WATCH SKILLED CRAFTSMEN AS THEY PAINSTAKINGLY RESTORE SOME OF THE
MOST SIGNIFICANT PLANES IN AVIATION HISTORY:
THE WRIGHT FLYER, THE FIRST AIRCRAFT TO ACHIEVE POWERED, CONTROLLED FLIGHT: THE ENOLA GAY, THE B-29 THAT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB, BRINGING WWII TO AN END.
SEE A CURTISS JENNY, THE AMERICAN BARNSTORMER OF THE 1930s IN FLIGHT. OBSERVE A WWI AERIAL BATTLE, AND SEE A WWI TREASURE - A RARE SOPWITH SNIPE - ON ITS WAY TO "SILVER
HILL" FOR RESTORATION AND EXHIBITION ON THE MALL.

1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE FLYING MACHINES
3 THE SMITHSONIAN'S UNIQUE FACILITY
4 EARLY DREAMS OF FLIGHT
5 FROM THE WRIGHTS TO LINDBERGH
6 KEEPING OLD PLANES ALIVE
7 THE NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM COLLECTION - AIRCRAFT
THAT MADE HISTORY
8 HISTORICALLY ACCURATE RESTORATION
8 HISTORICALLY ACCURATE RESTORATION CONTINUED
9 FLYING OLD AIRPLANES
10 AIRCRAFT IN WAR & PEACE
11 JET AND ROCKET POWER
12 ARTIFACTS FROM SPACE
13 PAUL GARBER'S POEM TO FLIGHT
14 CREDITS