Little entrance for the little kids area.
She likes those swings. And will ask you to go really high. Don't be shy. She can handle it.
B found an airplane thing...but Poppy was about to show him up. By alot.
MAPS museum. Stands for Mational Air Pairnautics. Here is their website link. Ok, maybe it's really Military Aviation Preservation Society. Either way, it was definitely a stop to make if you're ever in the area. Here's a list of what they have at their museum:
Fighter/Interceptor Aircraft
Bomber/Attack Aircraft
Trainer Aircraft
Liaison/Observation/Transport Aircraft
Rotary Wing Aircraft
Simulators / Flight Trainers
ERCO Trainer
Historical Aircraft
Goodyear Drake
Miscellanious
Tow Motors & Moving Equipment
A couple just his size
Kyleigh is touching a bomb.
The museum had so many airplanes you could sit inside. It was interesting to hear where these guys found the various airplanes...."pulled this one out of a swamp...", "the blimp crashed in southern Ohio so they brought it here", etc. There was one there that had not been cleaned up yet, so it was impressive to see the before and after versions. I'm comfortable with my kids sitting in these cockpits now, but not so sure the mother of the boys climbing in them previous were so comfortable. After checking out the giant garage they have of all their airplanes, they take you into the back room where they display all the articles of clothing, weapons, foreign money, playing cards, etc of those who fought in the World Wars. A couple of the displays were of a certain guys and contained alot of his personal gear. Cool to see.
They should really release this guy from his line of duty already. He's starting to go stiff.
The inside of the blimp, The Great Dirigible Shenandoah, that crashed. After the crash, they only made 4 passenger versions instead of 8.
Blimp's pilots seats.
Forget rocking horses, grab the kid a rocking fighter jet.
If that doesn't work out, then grab the kids an anti-aircraft artillery gun. One side controls the vertical positioning of the gun and the other side shifts the entire gun left or right. Can't imagine the type of cooperation needed to actually hit the planes as they fly by.
Then we went into the back room to look at the displays, Here's the link.
Reamer E. “Buzz” Sewell Display
Pearl Harbor Display
Bud Wentz
Nadine Harris-Bluhm Display
Rosie the Riveter Display
Tuskegee Airmen Display
B-17 & B-24 Model Display
Flying is in his blood. I just hope it always remains recreational.
Couple items that have seen battle.
We met Rosie's display. Ask Mom about Susie.
This is a photo of when the Japanese bombed the USS Arizona. You can see the USS Tennessee shooting their water at the burning oil coming dangerously close to their ship.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? (Does look like it would have an interesting history behind it).
Just don't turn over some of those playing cards. (At least not in front of the children).
This was either an exact model or a close model to the plane that Louis Zamperini flew in. You just can't help but feel grateful for the sacrifice of time and their very lives of the men who fought to keep this nation a free one. I need to read Tom Brokaw's book-The Greatest Generation. Seems like the title would be well justified when you see or read about what the men had to go through and compare that with what we are meagerly able to 'cope' with today.
Our tour guide said that some guys got sucked into this. And it had a nickname but I forgot already. They would come out badly bruised and damaged, but not killed.
Imagine trying to hook this guy together.
Kyleigh just saw that everyone else was ducking under this wing, so she followed suit, although utterly unnecessary.
Brenden was listening closely. I think this was when they guy was telling us that a pilot wanted to fly one of the old planes here to the museum, but it was deemed unsafe. He still wanted to fly it, but they made him take it apart and transport it instead of fly it in.
This is about as far as Brenden got the first time climbing up to check out the cockpit.
But once he saw his little sister scale it with deft dexterity, he decided to keep his manhood and went up after she came down.
Good trip. Nice museum. Fun kids. Happy parents and grandparents. One to repeat another time.
1 comment:
Boettler Park! Love it! Let us know when you go there again; my kids love it!
Post a Comment