Ever since moving up here, I’ve wanted to go to the Museum of Flight. Since Boeing’s
headquarters used to be in Seattle and all of their major factories are still here, the museum essentially is a who’s who of U.S. aircraft history.
They had an awesome WWI and WWII wing with some of the best looking restorations of naval and Army Air Corps aircraft. It was simply amazing realizing that when our country needed to, airplanes were being manufactured and turned out by the thousands.
The WWII section was my favorite. German Focke-Wulf’s, American P-51 Mustangs, Japanese dive bombers.. More notable was the equipment and apparel these men had to wear to bear the environment and cold up in the sky was something to see as well.
We met a wonderful museum guide who was 6 years old during the early part of the war and told us great stories about the WASPs women’s air corps – Victory gardens – and the stories of her family working the manufacturing plants (Rosie the Riveter) while the men where away at war. The women of the
war were definitely the backbone of their society’s time.
While Norma sat down and relaxed for a few minutes – I got to close out our tour with walking through the replica of Boeing’s original aircraft manufacturing ‘Red Barn‘. Definitely a cool depiction of early aircraft design and creation. Even though we didn’t get to see it all – overall it was a very fun rendezvous away from home, one of which I plan on repeating again to see the rest of the place.