THE OPENING OF the Smithsonian's National Air Space Museum in October marked a particularly auspicious occasion for general aviation-as curator Dorothy Cochrane and the team took the opportunity to create an entire gallery devoted to GA. Cochrane walked FLYING through the new gallery, Thomas W. Haas 'We All Fly.' There are five different sections. The first section is sport aviation, then private pilot flying, private aircraft manufacturing-and that's the Cessnas, the Beeches, the Pipers-and then we have business aviation, and then we have humanitarian flight, and then utility flight. The entrance is all about trying to explain to the general public what general aviation is. As you explain it to them, you engage them, there are all kinds of ways that they can participate-or are already in it as part of their everyday life, and they just don't realize it. And most of it is a modern gallery-timely-in the last 20, 30,40 years.
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