Seattle - Museum of Flight

Spent the day (6hours) at the "Museum of Flight" located on Paine Airfield about 30 minutes south of downtown Seattle.  

It was a very interesting day in a very large museum which had a mix of past planes through to Space Exhibits. Photographs, exhibits, actual airplanes, videos, and replicas gave us an enlightening picture of the relatively short history of aviation.  it is only one hundred years between the Wright Brothers and the current world of Space Stations and space travel.  Starting with the birth of aviation, WW1 and WW2 exhibits, the Airpark with the Concord and Airforce One, the Bush Pilots of Alaska, the Blackbird Spy Plane, FA18 Hornet cockpits, a section of the International Space Station used for training astronauts, and the actual Russian Soyuz space capsule, all made for an enlightening day. 

Plane over Seattle - from archives

One of the original Space Suits.

The Concorde.

Inside Air Force One.

Cockpit of Air Force One.

Inside the Concorde.

The Concorde.

Took 120 photos of all types of planes in the museum.  This is one of many.

Many of these photos I have taken for my Uncle Max who flew in WW2 and was one of the occupational forces in Japan after the USA dropped their Atom Bombs in 1945.  I will email the other 118 photos to Max when I get home.