Aviation History & the Air and Space Museum
Cuts · 2026-10-28 · 44 candidates
Every candidate the editor considered for this edition, by the stage it left at. Flag anything you would have run; the editor reads flags at the start of its next run.
Read, not kept 1
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Keeping an Icon Running: Roush Aviation Recruits Merlin Engine Builders read; a job listing for Merlin engine builders, with no news beyond the hire and an undated inventory purchase
Not shortlisted 21
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Looted by Nazis and Recently Restituted, a Kaleidoscopic Kandinsky Painting Just Sold for Nearly $42 Million Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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Specialists Removed Three Thrilling, Century-Old Murals From the Walls of a French Monastery. Beneath, They Made 'a Discovery for the History of Art' Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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Divers Recover a Mysterious Cauldron That Had Been Hiding at the Bottom of an English River for Hundreds of Years Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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Two Thousand Years Ago, a New Ice Age Began—but Human-Caused Climate Change Recently Reversed It, According to New Research Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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How Do Sea Creatures Survive the Intense Pressure of Living Deep in the Water? And More Questions From Our Readers Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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See the Sweeping Dune Walls and 125-Foot Bas-Relief Sculpture at the National Mall's Newest Memorial, Dedicated to Veterans of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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Bats Thrive in a Messy, Noisy World. These Four Discoveries Reveal How They Can Listen and Chatter Through the Din Smithsonian Magazine item outside air and space history and the museum
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Dozens of Former Airmen Are Running in the ’26 Midterms midterm-election feature on former airmen; outside the topic
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Air Force Unit Stops All Rope Training After TACP’s Rappelling Death current training accident; outside the topic
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Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Goodyear FG-1D Corsair BuNo 88382 2025 post from the year-earlier archive feed; a year-old warbird profile, not this week's heritage news
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A Wartime Rescue Remembered: How a Tuscan Farmer Saved Two World War II U.S. Pilots 2025 post from the year-earlier archive feed; not a this-day column and not current
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Castle Air Museum Begins Restoring Convair TF-102A Delta Dagger 2025 post from the year-earlier archive feed; restoration news a year old
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The Pennington P-51 ‘Lucy Gal’ Tuskegee Flight Memorial (Part 1) 2024 post from the two-years-earlier archive feed; not a this-day column and not current
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Impressive ‘Warbirds Downunder Airshow’ Came Back 2024 airshow report from the archive feed; not current
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An SR-71 Blackbird Fell 65,000 Feet in Under Two Minutes Toward the Barents Sea Off Russia in 1984 After Both Engines Quit at 83,000 Feet, and the Crew Relit Them at 18,000 Feet - 19FortyFive 19FortyFive retelling of a 1984 SR-71 engine flameout; recycled anecdote, ranked below four stronger heritage candidates
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Grounded Dreams: IST XL-15 Tagak – The Sidelined Light Utility Prototype Grounded Dreams profile of an obscure Philippine prototype; ranked below four stronger heritage candidates
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Grounded Dreams: SNCASO SO.9000 Trident – The Anhedral Wing Rocket Hybrid Discarded Grounded Dreams profile of the SO.9000 Trident; ranked fifth in heritage, four stronger candidates
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Grounded Dreams: Microjet 200 – The Micro Jet Trainer Left Behind Grounded Dreams profile of the Microjet 200; ranked below four stronger heritage candidates
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Today In Aviation History: First Flight of the Myasishchev M-50 anniversary is 27 October, the day before the edition date
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Today In Aviation History: First Flight of the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil anniversary is 26 October, two days before the edition date
Deprioritized 11
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This 11-Foot-Wide, Bowl-Shaped Object Was Found in a Minnesota Cornfield. Experts Suspect It's a Stray Rocket Part deprioritize: current spaceflight debris story without a museum or history angle
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The United Kingdom Is Launching Giant Claws Into Orbit to Clean Up Space Junk. You Can Help Name the First-of-Its-Kind Mission deprioritize: current spaceflight news without a museum or history angle
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F-16 Jets to Add Startup Castelion’s Hypersonic ‘Blackbeard’ Missile deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Pentagon to Give Startup Stoke Space $150M Loan for New Launch Pad deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Air Force Launches ARRW, Its First Hypersonic Weapon, into Production deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Boeing Bullish on Defense Sector After Fighter Wins, Shunning Fixed-Price Deals deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Space Force Wants Cislunar Kit Ready to Launch by 2029 deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Air Force Plans $1 Billion Campus for Testing F-47 at Nellis deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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AFRL Targets New Hypersonic Engine Tech Prototypes Within 4 Years deprioritize: current military operations, budgets or procurement without a heritage or museum angle
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Combat Veteran 1945 TBM-3E Avenger for Sale deprioritize: aircraft sale listing, and a year old
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Events from Across the Smithsonian's Museums and Zoo - Smithsonian deprioritize: general Smithsonian events listing across all museums and the zoo
Repeats 1
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Yorkshire Air Museum Welcomes Descendants of WWII RAF 77 Squadron Veterans repeat of 2026-10-27-yorkshire-air-museum-77-squadron-descendants, no new fact
Collapsed into another candidate 5
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National Air and Space Museum Completes Seven-Year Transformation With Opening of Two New Galleries - Smithsonian same item in Google News / National Air and Space Museum (google-news:national-air-and-space-museum:0)
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National Air and Space Museum launches 2 new exhibits - WUSA9 same event as the Smithsonian release on the final two galleries (WUSA9) (google-news:national-air-and-space-museum:0)
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Air and Space Museum opens final two galleries, finishing renovations - NBC4 Washington same event as the Smithsonian release on the final two galleries (NBC4) (google-news:national-air-and-space-museum:0)
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Smithsonian Museum Finishes Decade-Long Revamp - Design News same event as the Smithsonian release on the final two galleries (Design News) (google-news:national-air-and-space-museum:0)
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National Air and Space Museum launches new exhibits - WUSA9 same event as the Smithsonian release on the final two galleries (WUSA9, second item) (google-news:national-air-and-space-museum:0)
Kept 5
Sources 7
| Source | Items | Duplicates | Kept | Sole source |
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| Vintage Aviation News / All | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Google News / National Air and Space Museum | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Vintage Aviation News / Posts this date, one year earlier | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Smithsonian Magazine / Latest | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Air & Space Forces Magazine / All | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vintage Aviation News / Posts this date, two years earlier | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Google News / Udvar-Hazy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |