Saturday, August 22, 2009

Museum of Flight

We finally got ourselves up to the Museum of Flight in Seattle today. We have been wanting to take Cayden up there as he is an airplane and space fanatic.

This looked like an interesting early flight experience. The "Albatross" actually made it across the English Channel on manpower. Can you see the mannaquin on the bicycle inside?


Cayden and Tom in front of the SR71 Blackbird (Cayden's current fav)

This is a Boeing 80A-1. I love the sconces and the pull down shades!


Cayden got to control this little plane by himself!


My personal favorite: The Taylor Aerocar! The guy who invented this was born in Portland, grew up in Longview and graduated from UW. I can't figure out why this never caught on.....


This is an actual SR71 Blackbird cockpit.


Cool sharky machine gun.

This one was nicknamed "Big Stud". It's Tom's favorite WWII plane.

A little memento. His very own SR71 Blackbird model!

What a good time!!!

2 comments:

erinz said...

Looks like fun! Wish I had been there!

sbaily said...

The pix are great and Cayden was having so much fun. Good for you for taking him.