The Museum of Flight

Today we visited the Museum of Flight and it was amazing! I'm so glad we did a little background reading beforehand. It was exciting to see G's face light up when our tour guide mentioned that the Wright brothers came up with the idea of "wing warping", since he had seen that on a video we had watched during the week.

It was so amazing to see how quickly airplanes evolved. They went from gliders to actual jet airplanes within 45 years! I got lots of pictures of the different airplanes they had on display:

This is Leonardo da Vinci's glider design:

Here's the Wright Glider:

And here's the Wright Flyer. They made the engine themselves at their bicycle shop since nobody would do it for them because it wasn't worth the time to make just one engine. Engine makers didn't anticipate the flyer being a success. The engine is off-center on the flyer so they made one end of the wings 2 feet longer than the other end to compensate for the extra weight of the engine.

This is the first Boeing passenger plane. It had seating for 18 and was the first to have the co-pilot feature. It also came complete with flight attendants.

They also had a section on space where we saw a command module,

a replica of the lunar rover,

and a replica of the inside of the space station. Oh, and we also saw a real moon rock!

Next, we got to board the Concorde and a retired Air Force One!

Last, and this was Daddy's favorite, the Harrier Jet:

We had such an awesome day! We'll definitely have to visit the Museum of Flight again someday!