It comes as no surprise that St. Louis has long served as a catalyst in the aviation world.
Today, that same supersonic fighter jet greets visitors at TNMOT’s gates – all the more serendipitous because Bischof himself worked on the plane. “All the people who originally built it are mostly still here,” he says. “I reached out to the team I worked with 30 years ago and said, ‘Hey, do you know we’re bringing an E1 to the museum?’ It was disassembled. … We could transport it back, but we needed people who knew how to put it back together.”
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