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Complete tour for Wings of Adventure (15 stops)
Listen or download the entire audio tour for this exhibition (19:54)
 
1. Welcome
Allison Perkins, executive director of Reynolda House (:43)
 
2. The spine-tingling exploits of barnstorming pilots
Exhibition curator Allison Slaby (1:21)
 
3. Delivering the U.S. Mail
Dick Reynolds's attorney Stratton Coyner (1:31)
 
4. Smith's acquisition of a pilot's license at such a young age
Nancy Susan Reynolds, Smith's older sister (1:38)
 
5. Recollections of Smith piloting a plane while a friend "rode the axle"
Henry Miller (1:49)
 
6. Daredevil antics at Reynolda House in 1928
Barbara Millhouse, founding president of the Museum and niece of Smith Reynolds (1:11)
 
7. The loneliness and strain of Smith's Journey
Barbara Millhouse, founding president of the Museum and niece of Smith Reynolds (1:24)
 
8. Smith Reynolds describes the beauty of North Africa
Read by Todd Crumley (:50)
 
9. The search for Reynolda's Savoia Marchetti
Archivist Richard Murdoch (1:17)
 
10. Smith Reynolds describes his encounter with a Maharajah who is "nuts about aviation"
Read by Todd Crumley (:47)
 
11. "Streamlined modern" design
Exhibition curator Allison Slaby (1:29)
 
12. "Come, Josephine in my Flying Machine"
Blanche Ring's 1910 recording (2:35)
 
13. French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who disappeared mid-flight in 1944, describes a transcendent experience after a forced landing.
Read by Ray Collins. (1:22)
 
14. Beryl Markham, the only professional female pilot in Africa during the early 1930s and author of the memoir "West with the Night," describes a solo flight over Africa at night.
Read by Kirtan Coan. (:59)
 
15. Women's early forays into aviation
Exhibition curator Allison Slaby (:54)
 

 

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