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Museum of Flight

 Boeing is a local (or was, until they moved HQ to Chicago a few years ago) manufacturer of airplanes and other aerospace vehicles and components. A legacy the company leaves in Seattle is Boeing Field, an airport very close to downtown.

This makes for a convenient and logical spot to house a museum dedicated to flight, and indeed such a museum found home along Boeing Field. There are all sorts of airplanes and some space vehicles on display, Boeing's Red Barn, and some simulators you can spin around in. Here's a set of photos from the main display hall.

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    113kb 153kb     		This is the scene upon entering the hall. The main attraction on the floor is a Lockheed MD-21 Blackbird (a variant of the A-12), and its attendant D-21B drone. 135kb
    82kb 168kb     		This DC-3 hangs above the MD-21. Coincidentally, I think these aircraft to be the two of the most marvelous yet made.
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    71kb 128kb 131kb     		A replica of a Granville Brothers Gee Bee Z, a plane built for racing in the 1930s. 128kb
    89kb 176kb 175kb     		Looking up and left, here's a Stearman PT-13A Kaydet trainer.
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    69kb 119kb     		Turning around from the Gee Bee, we see the back end of the MD-21. Above it is a Lear Fan 2100. 140kb
    84kb 176kb     		To the right of the Lear Fan are a Northrup YF-5A supersonic fighter (top), Fairchild F24W (foreground), and Lockheed F-104C Starfighter fighter/interceptor.
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    67kb 140kb     		At the SW corner of the hall, this is a cutaway of the engine used in the WWII Goodyear F2G-1 Corsair fighter. 112kb
    70kb 141kb 147kb     		Turning around, you'll get a view of the back end of the MD-21.
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    63kb 141kb     		Along the south wall is this Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II, a shipboard attack plane shown here painted as used by the Blue Angels from 1974 to 1986. 142kb
    75kb 144kb     		A wide view of the T. A. Wilson Great Gallery from the NE.
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    51kb 101kb     		The bright, shiny Lockheed F-104C. 90kb
    53kb 93kb 98kb     		Outside the museum a re a few more craft. This is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, and a Boeing WB-47E behind it.
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    		 If simulators aren't enough for you, you can rent some time to fly in this biplane around Seattle. The line forms just north of the museum's front entrance.