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A Beautiful Biplane Represents a Future That Never Was
The U.S. Navy once dreamed of floating airships that could launch clusters of tiny fighter airplanes. Tom Paone curates three collections at the National Air and Space Museum, including more than 500 lighter-than-air artifacts. His research focuses on …