The Museum of Flight!

This past weekend, I treated my dad and I to see the "Museum of Flight." We have always wanted to go see it. It is a great collection of airplanes and spacecraft from the beginning of aviation, to recent.

A couple of interesting attractions are the Lunar Rover, and the Aerocar III.

One thing I did not realize about the Lunar Rover, is that it has wire-mesh tires! I thought for some reason that they would be regular tires, like on a regular car. Then someone pointed out that regular tires would blow-up, I then realized, that that makes sense. Duh...

When I first saw the Aerocar, I honestly thought it was a joke.

My dad reassured me that it wasn't. This is kind of something you might see in an old James Bond movie. There is even footage of the thing flying. At one time they advertised it as "A Plane in Every Garage." It is a car, that flies. The wings can be folded down, and taken off, so it can be driven like a regular car... so weird.

There are several other cool airplanes and things I could describe, but you should really see it for yourself. I have a ton of photos, but they really do not do the museum justice.

If you want to check out the museum, make sure you give yourself plenty of time. We got there almost 3 hours before closing time, and we thought we had seen everything, but found out about 15 minutes before the museum closed, that there were a few things we missed! Our feet were really tired by then anyway, so we decided to go home.

Overall, we had a great time, and I would like to go back and look around some more.