I hadn’t even realized there was a museum of flight in Seattle but someone at work said this week that it was an interesting place to go. After a bit of investigating and finding out that there was a concorde there I thought the boys should go. We’ve had a few years of having to hear all about posh Tracy’s adventures on concorde and the QE2 so today was a chance for us to level things up a little!
The museum was north of the airport and south of Seattle and about half an hour from home. We got there just after 10 and there was already a fair old queue. We went straight across to see concorde before the rain started. The boys were super excited about going on it but they, like I, couldn’t believe how small it was when you were inside. Good job it went so fast because it looked pretty cramped! It flew from New York to Seattle in 3 hours 55 minutes and 12 seconds – not sure how long the flight is normally but I will investigate!
After concorde it was across to Airforce One – the plane that JFK flew in. This plane was a little more comfortable although I think the President of the USA deserved slightly better toilets! At the end of the day Airforce One won the “best plane of the day” from both boys.
After Airforce One we saw – but could not go in – the first ever jumbo which now looked a bit of a state. Then it was back across to the main building to check out all sorts of weird and wonderful planes. They ranged from the various WW1 and WW2 planes, NASA planes, the Blue Angels, postal planes and flying bath tubs! There was also a video clip of the Banana Splits. I’m not 100% sure of the connection but it was good to watch a couple of minutes video of this! It was a very interesting few hours and at least we can all say we’ve been on concorde now!
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And so that was the museum of flight. We’d seen Airforce One, the first ever jumbo jet, concorde, and just when we thought there was nothing else to see, as we left the car park we saw a couple of RyanAir planes on the tarmac – obviously waiting to be collected!