Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
From the museum website: “The first presidential jet plane, a specially built Boeing 707-120, is known as...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
The magnificent Concorde was the world’s fastest jetliner. Donated by British Airways, this jet one of only twenty Concordes ...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
The Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation was one of the last great piston-engine airliners. Soon after...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
To make it easy to cross busy East Marginal Way to the Air Park, the Museum erected the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Brid...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
It may look like art from Christo but it’s a thin shrink wrapped plastic covering that protects the Museum...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
To my way of thinking, the real stars of the movies ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Flight of the Intruder’ ...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
Flanked by the Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress the B-47 Stratojet has a commanding place on the front lawn of the...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
From the Museum of Flight website: “Until the mid-1920s, American commercial airplanes were built for mail, not people. B...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
The nimble and fast A-4 was the attack aircraft that the instructors “Viper” and “Je...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
The Super Corsair was designed and produced by Goodyear rather than Vought. The F2G design mated the Corsair airframe to Pratt & Whitney's huge R-4360 engine rated at 3,000 horsepower.
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
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This simple post and beam building was the Boeing Company's original manufacturing plant. Originally built i...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
This view from the floor of the great gallery features the expansive titanium underbelly of the Lockheed M-21 Blackbird and the famous adversaries of the Cold War, our McDonnell F-4C Phantom II and the Soviet MiG-21.
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
This view from the floor of the great gallery conveys the immense size of the gallery and the Lockheed M-21 Blackbird that sits in the center.
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
The Boeing Model 40B overlooks the T. A. Wilson Great Gallery that showcases a stunning array of histor...(more)
Published 12 months ago by Bill Edwards
From the copy on the Museum of Flight website: “The Taube was stable in flight, which made it very...(more)
