San Diego Museum Featuring Movie Plane

The San Diego Air & Space Museum has many exciting new additions!

Recently, the Museum acquired the Lockheed Vega 5B used in the movie Amelia, starring Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank. The plane was created as a prop for the film Amelia and was donated to the Museum by Avalon Pictures.

Amelia Earhart flew a Lockheed Vega 5B on many historic occasions including the 1929 first Women’s Cross-Country Air Race (also known as the Powder Puff Derby), first female solo flight across the Atlantic, first female solo flight across the United States, and also set several women’s speed and distance records.

In its heyday the Vega 5B was known as a racing and record-setting aircraft and established a standard for many other transport aircraft.

Also, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) and Northrop Grumman Corporation teamed up to build a Horten 229 flying wing replica for the documentary Hitler’s Stealth Fighter. The top-secret Nazi stealth fighter was reconstructed to determine if Hitler’s military had stealth capabilities three decades before the United States.

The flying wing is now on display in the Museum’s World War II Gallery.

The Museum’s new traveling exhibition, “The Science of... Aliens,” blends our fascination with life on other planets with the work of leading scientists who used the latest discoveries and scientific principles to imagine alien worlds and creatures, exploring the very real possibilities for alien life.

Cutting edge hands-on displays give visitors the chance to actually interact with these scientifically based creatures.

The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please visit  www.sandiegoairandspace.org or call 619.234.8291 for more information.

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