Here & Now Anytime

The story behind the WWI fighter plane that inspired Snoopy's Flying Ace


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During World War I, fighter planes called Sopwith Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in WWI. For those familiar with the Peanuts comics, it's the name of the doghouse that Snoopy flies in his fantasy sequences as a Flying Ace, a brave WWI pilot battling the Red Barron. The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has one on view. Here & Now's Scott Tong visits the museum to check it out. 

And, Yomi Young, a friend of disability activist and author Alice Wong, tells us about Wong's legacy of building community. Wong died earlier this month at 51

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