Air and Space Museum

Out in the middle of a field in McMinnville, Oregon is a wonderful Air and Space Museum.

There are two buildings like this.  This holds the Spruce Goose and other planes, and it's twin the space portion.

The 747 is on top of a building near them.  That building hosts a water park!  Much to William's chagrin, we didn't go there.  But I see a return visit in our future! 

The old style planes were fun to look at.  Ford's logo is so cool looking!

This is the plane from a little further out.

And this is the inside.  People complain about leg room nowadays, but boy, howdy!  This one didn't evan leave aisle room!

There are too many pictures of planes that William found interesting. 

This was a free ride in the space building.  How fun!  The person running it said that even though it has a weight limit, they'd even ridden it!  :)  Most of the volunteers are elderly, so you can imagine what it would look like after hours!  Side benefit!

Rocket engines... William was convinced they were going to launch a rocket.  There's a mock-up room and a count-down.  For being bright, he's amazingly gullible!  I guess the spin is that he still has a vivid imagination, and anything is possible!  Or, he's been warped by Disney.

How it would look when the helicopter picked up the capsule after splash-down.

I am currently reading 'Packing for Mars.'  And so I look at this picture differently.  I now know the back-story on us putting a flag on the moon! 

The true ATV.

I love these tags!

We had a super time at the museum, and the side-note is that the sandwiches were really good there.  The bread was thick, yet nummy!  (It's always about the food!)