Everybody's seen a million pictures of it, the purpose of putting it on display is so you can see it up close and personal, not gaze from afar. I'm sure the close quarters wouldn't seem confining to city people, they live with it.
The NYC museum started with the aircraft carrier, then expanded along a logical progression to include aircraft. Some carrier based, but also others including the Concorde and Shuttle.
The Udvar Hazy started with an airport... land. A short commodity in NYC.
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
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