The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is home to some of the titans of aviation history—think the Lockheed SR-71 and the Air France Concorde. Walking through the lighter-than ...

Most museums show old airplanes buffed and polished as if they ... work was done in the final months of the Third Reich, it is beautiful—what you’d expect to find on a desk, not a warplane.