Interior view of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia

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An aviation celebration

The airborne craft you're seeing aren't models—they're real airplanes hung in a hangar at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, a National Air and Space Museum branch located next to Dulles International Airport. These retired craft are suspended in the company of notable flying machines from every era, like a Blackbird stealth fighter, a Concorde jet, and the space shuttle Discovery.

We're paying a visit in honor of National Aviation History Month—because even though 2020's been a turbulent year for air travel, we know an industry that laughs in the face of gravity itself will take off once again. Until that Euro trip you planned is back on the tray table, why not pass the time with our complimentary in-flight quiz?