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Scheduled for a one-year limited run when it opened during the Ford administration, the modest 26-minute Imax film "To Fly!" has become an unlikely Washington institution, one that shows no signs of crashing back to earth anytime soon.
Ezekiel, the top-hatted balloonist, has recited his "little poem" on the glories of flight and barely missed the white church steeple more than 20,000 times now. He has called out his warning of white water ahead to the unsuspecting canoeist far below for 36 years. Before giving way to hang gliders, barnstorming pilots and the Navy's Blue Angels flight team, his silver balloon with the four American flags attached to the gondola has soared above the rolling green Vermont hills and churning, roaring Niagara Falls every single day the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum has been open.
"It had a dreamlike quality," said Richmond Holt, a tourist from London visiting the museum with friends at the beginning of July, just as "To Fly!" was marking its 36th anniversary at the museum's theater with a daily 2:40 p.m. showing. "You were able to fly without being scared about it."
'To Fly!': Air and Space Museum opened in 1976 with film's first screening →
"It had a dreamlike quality," said Richmond Holt, a tourist from London visiting the museum with friends at the beginning of July, just as "To Fly!" was marking its 36th anniversary at the museum's theater with a daily 2:40 p.m. showing. "You were able to fly without being scared about it."
'To Fly!' still soars: Air and Space Museum opened in 1976 with film's first screening →
