Friday, June 26, 2009

Flight Museum

Copy of the Hotrod (Lunar Rover) we left on the moon. It's around the size of a VW bug. The wheels look like squirrel cages made from hardware cloth wrapped around to form the tires.


This is a Concorde, not a copy. We got to tour the inside of this. It flew for over 30 years before going out of service.

Air Force One here, was the first jet Presidential airplane. Eisenhower was the first president to use this one and Nixon was the last president to use before it was replaced with a much newer jet.

Here we see a SR-71, otherwise known as the Blackbird. The skin is all titanium so it would not melt due to the high speed air friction. I flies faster than 3 times the speed of sound. I never knew it could launch a Drone from the top. This is the first time I ever saw the combination.
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3 comments:

Lynda said...

COOL!!

Debbie said...

I bet Dad loved all of that!

Lynda said...

Yeeaaa for Dad for writing the blog!!! Hip hip hooray! Great job!