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National Air and Space Museum  Search this

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2017-10-18T20:51:24.000Z

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554

Video Title:

A Revolutionary Naval Aircraft - Ask an Expert Live

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Every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. we go live on Facebook with an Ask an Expert talk. In this talk from February 22, 2017, aeronautics curator Laurence Burke discussed the Curtiss N-9H, and the U.S. Navy's adoption of the plane as its first modern, tractor airplane. Primarily trainers, planes of this type were the first to make flights out of sight of land.

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19 min 36 sec

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Education  Search this

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Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this

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