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...Caroline is only one of 40,000 items of aircraft memorabilia, from whole | planes to burp bags, collected at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility workshop of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. For most Americans, a big chunk of their history is concentrated in the metal sheds on those 25 acres, where 22 technicians slowly, meticulously regenerate the epic of flight...
...City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side of the cockpit as Turner cut the switch and saluted. In a back room at the Garber Facility, Gilmore, long ago a grown lion, proudly presides, beautifully stuffed and stored...
...Garber Facility is named for a diminutive 90-year-old man who still goes to work every day as historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and has done more than any other person to preserve the record of the nation's great venture into flight. Paul E. Garber was born just as the Wright brothers began to inquire about flying machines. When Garber was five, his uncle gave him a kite, and his fascination with the sky was fixed for a long lifetime...
...nine, Garber read in the evening Star about an airplane demonstration. He mooched 50 cents from his father and hopped the Washington trolley to Arlington National Cemetery. When he stepped down, he heard a strange sound, looked up and saw Orville Wright steer his Military Flyer above him with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane...
...freshman sensation crusied to a 6-1 triumph in the first set over Garber. The second set was a little tighter, but Minkus captured a 6-4 decision to clinch the fifth victory...