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The unit operates two IMAX theaters and one Infiniti Digital Dome Planetarium, each presenting shows relevant to the museum in which it is located. The Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater is the flagship facility of Smithsonian Theaters and is located on the first floor of the National Air and Space Museum at the National Mall Campus in Washington, D.C.
An expansion of the Udvar-Hazy Center is dedicated to the behind-the-scenes care of the Smithsonian's collection of aircraft, spacecraft, related artifacts and archival materials. On December 2, 2008, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center received a gift of $6 million for phase two from Airbus Americas Inc. — the largest corporate gift to the ...
Phantom 65 IMAX 3D [68] Transformers: Age of Extinction: 27 June 2014: 3D: Phantom 65 IMAX 3D [69] Gone with the Bullets: 18 December 2014: 3D: Phantom 65 IMAX 3D [70] Captain America: Civil War: 6 May 2016: ARRI Alexa IMAX. Converted to 3D. [71] Sully: 9 September 2016: ARRI Alexa IMAX [72] Transformers: The Last Knight: 21 June 2017: 3D: ARRI ...
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center opened on December 15, 2003, funded by a private donation. The museum received COSTAR, the corrective optics instrument installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during its first servicing mission , when it was removed and returned to Earth after Space Shuttle mission STS-125. The museum also holds the backup ...
Some shots filmed in 35mm and converted to 3D. First mainstream feature to be partially shot with digital IMAX 3D cameras with 95 minutes of IMAX 3D footage. Aspect ratio alternates between 2.39:1, 2.00:1, and 1.90:1. The longest IMAX 3D movie ever filmed. [243] [244] Hercules: 25 July 2014 ** In 3D (conversion). Limited engagement. [245] Lucy ...
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The museum still stores aircraft and other artifacts at the Paul E. Garber Facility, but most storage and restoration functions have relocated to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is not open to the public. It opened to the public for tours in January 1977. [1]
Steven Ferencz Udvar-Házy ([ˈudvɒrhaːzi]; born 1946), also known as István or Steve Hazy, [2] is a Hungarian-American billionaire businessman and the executive chairman of Air Lease Corporation. He is the former chairman and CEO of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), one of the two largest aircraft lessors in the world (the ...