Museum of Flight

Saturday September 29, 2012

Today we took advantage of the FREE National Museum Day and visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle near Boeing Field. It is the largest private air and space museum.

There is an interactive Space Shuttle Mission exhibit. There were so many wonderfully restored airplanes like the Boeing 80A-1, Douglas DC-3, Gossamer Albatross II human-powered aircraft, an aerocar, and the massively cool Lockheed D-21 unmanned reconnaissance drone.

There is an air traffic control tower to watch the planes taking off and landing at the Boeing Field runways.

The Red Barn wing is a restored barn which was Boeing’s original manufacturing plant. There were some nice exhibits highlighting early wooden aircraft structure.

There is a 2 floor wing dedicated to WWI and WWII aircraft.

The first jet-powered Air Force One resides outside.

The new Space building was still constructing the Full Fuselage Trainer exhibit. It will house a shuttle mockup that all Space Shuttle astronauts used to train. The Super Guppy that flew in the large pieces of the exhibit produced quite a frenzy. It was quite a sight to see flying over our house.

This truly is a man's kind of museum. I guess I’ve drug Joe to enough art museums for him to be the dork soaking it all in.