Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Museum of Flight

A few weeks ago we took our scouts on a field trip to visit the Museum of Flight. How is it that I have never been here before? It is a pretty cool place and the whole time I was there I kept thinking of how much David would love it! Can't wait to take him here!



Going aboard Air Force One was pretty cool. This was the 707 jet used by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. As we were standing in line to board Air Force One, the skies opened up on us and completely drenched us. It didn't help that it was freezing and super windy and the rain was pretty much falling sideways. It was so crazy, that it could only be funny!


This is a picture of the Blackbird Marvel. This is one of the fastest aircraft ever built. This Blackbird cruised at speeds of more than Mach 3 and altitudes of over 85,000 feet. It's pretty awesome looking too.


Each of the boys were able to sit in the cockpit of a real SR-71A Blackbird plane. How much would David love this?


4 comments:

Ammo and Josh said...

I love the Museum of Flight! I have taken many of the kids I have nannied throughout the years. Looks like you had a great time!

The Dillon 6 said...

I don't think you all were gone more than 10 minutes when Malcolm asked if it was too late for him to go. Maybe next time he'll want to hvae fun.

But maybe not. ;)

Great pictures!

Mark and Jennifer said...

Great pictures! Fun day!!

Jaime said...

Oh my goodness, this place looks awesome. I am going to have to look into this for the 3 of us to go to. Very fun! Great picture of Airforce 1. That makes me want to go even more? Did you ever watch The West Wing? awesome show.