Day 20 – Seattle

Today we had planned to head north up to Everett to take the Boeing Factory Tour. Instead we traveled south to Boeing Field to take a look at the Museum of Flight.

In hindsight the strike at Boeing was a good thing, because we would have otherwise missed out on a great museum.

We took an hour long tour through the main gallery. The tour showed the rapid evolution of flight, from the Wright Flyer, through Air Mail to the first passenger services… the military and to the fastest plane in the world… a variant of the SR-71 Blackbird. Whilst Kerrina tried to stay interested, Paul absolutely loved it.

Then we jumped across the road to the Air Park. Here they have the last Concorde ever to fly, and the Boeing 707 that used to be Air Force One – the one that JFK and presidents of that time used. Kerrina was quite excited to walk on Air Force One.

Unfortunately the Concorde was closed to visitors for two days for cleaning, so we missed out on taking a look inside that one.