Wendell and I were up in Seattle this past Thurs-Mon. I was looking around online for things to do, and came upon a great deal! On the first Thursdays of the month, the Museum of Flight lets you in from 5-9 PM for FREE!! Normally it's $23!! Still worth the price, IMHO. The BEST part: You get to walk through the airplanes! The Dreamliner is just beautifuLLLLL!! You older folks would enjoy the retro stuff from the Air Force One jet. You aviation buffs out there would love this place!! Here's some pics from our visit. :innocent:
What a great museum! On my want-to-see list now. The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum (aka Spruce Goose museum) in McMinnville, OR is also well worth a visit if you're down that way.
I like the barn, even though they mislabeled some of the survey equipment.
party chef, post: 454548, member: 98 wrote: I like the barn, even though they mislabeled some of the survey equipment.
You mean the level labeled as a transit?
I think I've posted a pic before.
Looks like Angel got hold of my picture library.
The two times I've been there, the 747 and the Can Air weren't open for viewing, and the 787 didn't have much inside.
Another thing I found interesting in the area is Americas Car Museum in Tacoma.
I haven't been to that museum in a while but will return soon as there are new buildings and things to see. This is a museum that one can approach a docent and ask what their connection is and you will not be disappointed in the resulting conversation. I met General Richard Rainforth that way when I asked why another visitor saluted him. His "baby" is parked in the WWII exhibit.
My first-ever flight was on a Lockheed Constellation in the late 1950s. I think that is a Constellation in the first picture. The captain permitted me to visit the cockpit, quite an adventure for a kid and unheard of today. Later, in college, I flew home on weekends on Piedmont Airlines on Martin 404s and Fairchild F-27s. Round trip from Hickory, NC to Winston-Salem, NC was $11.50. Flight time was 30 minutes, but a bus ride was 3 1/2 hours for a round-trip price of $6.50.
Indeed, many of we older people would love to visit that museum.
There is a smaller airplane museum here in MD. Nothing like the beautiful sight above though.
During the summer and for special events, the MD museum has "open cockpit" days on the weekends. On one of those days, i was there with some other folks and boy was it fun to see how excited they were. A couple of them were sitting in the cockpit and I just did not have the heart to tell them to move so I could sit there.
One of their planes is a smaller passenger plane put out by Glenn Martin years ago. When I sat in one of the passenger seats, I was amazed that as an oversized person by a "few" pounds, I still had room to move in the seat! Stretch out and not bumping everything!
The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field is the jewel of an airplane museum in Seattle. However, I find that Paine Field in Everett about 30 miles north which has at least four aviation themed destinations to be as much or more interesting. Paine Field is the home of what was (and still may be) the largest building by volume in the world, where Boeing builds the 747, 767, 777 and 787. You can have a tour and visit their Future of Flight center. Across the tarmac is the Restoration Center for the Museum of Flight where you can see how museum quality aircraft and displays are created and if you like roll up your sleeves and get dirty. Down the road one can visit Paul Allen's significant collection of combat airplanes and armored vehicles; everything is operational and used regularly. And at the end of 16R is the Museum of Historic Flight where among other things you can take ground school and subsequent training to be SIC of a DC-3. https://www.painefield.com/
Rick Taylor, post: 454545, member: 304 wrote: What a great museum! On my want-to-see list now. The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum (aka Spruce Goose museum) in McMinnville, OR is also well worth a visit if you're down that way.
I live about 40 minutes from it... Wendell did some of the original Surveying on it and would come home and tell me that they were going to put a 747 in there with waterslides! I thought he was nuts until... :grinning:
Daniel Ralph, post: 454701, member: 8817 wrote: The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field is the jewel of an airplane museum in Seattle. However, I find that Paine Field in Everett about 30 miles north which has at least four aviation themed destinations to be as much or more interesting. Paine Field is the home of what was (and still may be) the largest building by volume in the world, where Boeing builds the 747, 767, 777 and 787. You can have a tour and visit their Future of Flight center. Across the tarmac is the Restoration Center for the Museum of Flight where you can see how museum quality aircraft and displays are created and if you like roll up your sleeves and get dirty. Down the road one can visit Paul Allen's significant collection of combat airplanes and armored vehicles; everything is operational and used regularly. And at the end of 16R is the Museum of Historic Flight where among other things you can take ground school and subsequent training to be SIC of a DC-3. https://www.painefield.com/
I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Next time we're up in Seattle, I will go see it!! :innocent:
I went to check out their "live webcam" and this is what popped up: I guess he's working on his own personal web. 😎 
