Frontiers of Flight Museum
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Frontiers of Flight Museum is a museum in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 144 m. Mount Donwell stands 218 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Polk Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 1.5 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Frontiers of Flight Museum is an aerospace museum located in Dallas, Texas, founded in November 1988 by William E. Cooper, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Jan Collmer. Originally located within a terminal at Dallas Love Field, the museum now occupies a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) building at the southeast corner of Love Field on Lemmon Avenue. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program. Aviation historian George E. Haddaway promoted the founding of the museum subsequent to donation of his extensive personal collection of aviation history books, journals, photographs, as well as archives to the University of Texas at Dallas as the nucleus of the History of Aviation Collection. The museum features an extensive collection of aviation history artifacts and vehicles, and focuses on the history of aviation and space exploration with an emphasis on the role of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Exhibits include the Apollo 7 Command Module; a World War I Sopwith Pup biplane replica; artifacts from the German airship Hindenburg and other airships; and over 200 World War II aircraft models.
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Dates from 1988.
Wikidata Q5506066, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 144 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Polk Park: 0.2 mi
- Field Frazier Park: 0.7 mi
- Midway Manor Park: 0.8 mi
- Bluff View Park: 1.0 mi
- Weichsel Park: 1.1 mi
- Oath of Office of President Johnson: 0.6 mi
- Love Field: 0.6 mi
- Texas' First Airmail and Passenger Service: 0.6 mi
- Cochran Chapel Cemetery: 1.4 mi
- Cochran Chapel Methodist Church: 1.4 mi
- Contrails, Stainless Steel, 2017: 0.6 mi
- Undulating X: 1.7 mi
- Forest of Light: 1.9 mi
- Sabras: 2.0 mi
- Life Rings: 2.0 mi
- Frank H. Caven Memorial Garden: 2.8 mi
- Legacy of Love Monument: 2.8 mi
- Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament: 3.0 mi
- concrete hamburger: 3.2 mi
- Katy Trail Caboose: 3.3 mi
- Nasher Sculpture Garden: 4.2 mi
- East Dallas Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Live Oak Community Garden: 4.5 mi
- Liberty Street Garden: 4.7 mi
- Meditation Foundation Maze: 5.0 mi
- Meadows Museum: 3.0 mi
- The Samurai Collection: 3.9 mi
- Economy in Action: 4.1 mi
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science: 4.2 mi
- Nasher Sculpture Center: 4.3 mi
- UT Southwestern Medical Center Rookery: 2.0 mi
- Big Spring Preserve: 10.2 mi
- Joppa Preserve: 11.5 mi
- Trinity River Audubon Center: 12.2 mi
- McCommas Bluff Preserve: 12.6 mi
- Chalk Hill: 7.4 mi
- Flower Mound: 18.0 mi
- Mount Donwell: 20.5 mi
- Mayor's Hill: 21.6 mi
- Grayhawk Hill: 23.9 mi
- Point Nancy Carolyn at Bachman Lake: 1.8 mi
- Picnic Outpost: 7.1 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 18.6 mi
- Parkside Food Truck Park: 21.9 mi
- The Corral: 22.5 mi
- La Reunion: 5.9 mi
- Sowers: 9.1 mi
- Camey Spur: 16.8 mi
- Lawson: 18.5 mi
- Nickelville: 21.5 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Shayhan Point: 24.0 mi
- Lynn Creek Park Beach: 18.6 mi
- Little Elm Beach: 22.8 mi
- SoPac Trail Rest Area: 5.6 mi
- McKamy Spring: 9.0 mi
- Muddy Creek: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Frontiers of Flight Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Donwell | WNW 285° | 218 m | 20.5 mi |
| Town Common | WNW 295° | 216.71 m | 24.0 mi |
| Chalk Hill | SSW 205° | 202 m | 7.4 mi |
| Flower Mound | NW 312° | 202 m | 18.0 mi |
| Mayor's Hill | WNW 296° | 180 m | 21.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:03 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:53 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:48 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Oct–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 52 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 83 | 87 | 87 | 80 | 69 | 58 | 50 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dallas FAA AP, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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