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
Well talk to one row about that. Power lunch starts right now. And happy tax deadline day, by the way, today the last day to send your money to uncle sam, maybe that is impacting your stocks, too, stocks down for the fourth time in five days, keep in mind as michelle said, Goldman Sachs along with j j, taxing the dow, those two stocks responsible for most of the dows losses today. Well have much more on your money and impacting on stocks. We begin with facebook, and in san jose, california, where Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stage at any moment to deliver a keynote address to facebooks conference. Well discuss the Facebook Post of a man being murdered in cold blood. Well talk about the suspect who killed himself today during a police chase. Reporter that is right, brian, we expect Mark Zuckerberg to take the stage any moment right now. He will listen carefully to see what he says about plans to ramp up facebooks review process for offensive videos or changes policy. This aft
Our guide is curator jeremy kinney, who shows us some of the museums rare and oneofakind artifacts to tell the quest to go higher, faster, and further during the first half century of aviation. Jeremy kinney hello. Were going to go through a tour of some artifacts that really stand out in terms of the story of higher, faster, and farther. First, i want to talk about the museum overall. The museum has over 8 million visitors a year. Looking at the story of flight in the atmosphere, where i work in, we are looking at 500 aircraft and helicopters. Of those aircraft, about 67 are on display in the National Mall building. What supports these artifacts is up to 50,000 small and medium artifacts. Were going to talk about the story of higher, faster, and farther which is seen as a cliche in the history of aviation but has a real meaning. We look at the people who made this quest of flying in the third dimension a reality. The idea of flying to the highest altitudes, fastest speeds, and longest
Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. Youre on the air. Oh, awesome. Its very nice to meet you, general. My question for you is actually a twopart question. One, how many exhibits are actually on display . And what is your favorite exhibit . We have 22 galleries. And the, probably, im not going to give you a number but its, ill say its more than 160 actual artifacts. Im talking about large artifacts. If we count the metals and the patches and some of the other smaller things, it gets into the thousands, actually. So, and i mentioned
Ground troops. We are going to defeat isis without committing american Ground Troops. The candidates battle over the military. Under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our country. Democrats released correspondence between clinton and secretary of state colin we somebody who doesnt know much about technology scares me. Congress failed to pass a bill to fight zika. This is the fear for floridians right here. Remnants of Tropical Storm newton drenched the southwest after twice making landfall in mexico as a hurricane. Say byebye to your headphone jack. The reason to move on really comes down to courage. Where do they find the courage to charge people 160 for new headphones . Lochte will be suspended ten months. A little girl tries to stop an axwielding robber to protect her familys business. All that. A crosses the line between brave and foolish. Dos equis introduced th