Friday, February 15, 2008

Smithsonian: National Museum of Air & Space

This exhibit was really neat -- it was set up as if it were the deck of one of the Navy's Aircraft Carriers - complete with flight and landing simulators. We had a lot of fun learning how it all works. DadToCherubs made a successful "TAIL HOOK" landing on the simulator.

This is a photo of the ACTUAL plane built and flown by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC. A day that history changed forever !! This exhibit was fascinating because we JUST finished learning about the Wright Brothers.

The Apollo (the one that landed on the moon).
A scale model of the Space Shuttle.
This craft was really interesting ... it seemed hard to believe just how much equiptment was inside of that small space.

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