WASHINGTON DC — The Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum explores aviation trailblazers of the 1920s and 1930s who broke records and pushed technological boundaries. The display examines how these pioneers of aviation and rocketry fostered a new culture of "airmindedness" that captured public imagination during aviation's transformative early decades. The National Air and Space Museum, established in 1976, houses the world's largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution and attracts

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