WHEN THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL Air and Space Museum set about renovating its downtown Washington facility-one of the most visited museums in the world-it was decided to reconsider the general aviation display to better encompass the sector's variety, impact and technological advances. And thus at the West Wing's reopening in October, its "We All Fly" exhibition appropriately included a prototype Learjet 23, the Cessna 180 that "Jerrie" Mock soloed around the globe in 1964, and Sean Tucker's unique, eight-aileron, twin-wing aerobat.
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