CSPAN3 American Artifacts November 26, 2016
Robert powell welcome to the Virginia Beach aviation museum. I am boom powell. I will explain a few things we have. The museum has a complete collection, and it is about 60 airplanes here. We have restorations coming and going and others he maintained as time goes on. I am standing in front of one of the oldest airplanes here at the museum. This is a 1911 Wright Brothers flyer, the right model b. T is not the same as the kitty hawk airplane. There is an act elevator. The engine is offset. There is a chain drive changing to propellers. The Wright Brothers were geniuses with coming up with the s...