FAA Museum – very impressed.

Went to the FAA museum on friday for the first time in ages.
Really impressed with how stimulating they have made it. I took my 2 year old daughter with me. (mum stayed in the car).

Ellie delighted in shouting ‘ooh aeroplane’ at every single airframe and was excited at the idea that pirates (pilots) flew them and was extremely impressed with the view onto the flight line where 2 lynx’s where hovering and bodding about.

She loved the helicopter ride onto the aircraft carrier, especially as she said it went ‘dark and shakey and she felt a bit wobblerly’ . She liked the phantom takeoff and the steam but the buccanneer landing was too much for her, too noisy and she told dad ‘not like it, Ellie little bit scared’

All in all a really good afternoon out around what could be quite easily be a dull/static museum.

As much as I remember going as a kid and thinking how big the aircraft are, and wondering how anyone could possibly fly them I can say that thirty years later and I still stood there thinking how big the flighters were (Corsair/Fury etc) (the Seafire however seemed manageable..)

I have to say the weathered corsiar is amazing.
If my Euromillions come up I’d have one just the same in my living room, just to look at.

keep on visiting the museum and keep on bringing it to life.
I still cant get over how big some of the late piston fighters are.