Today, the kids and I went to The Museum of Flight to watch the arrival of the Super Guppy. The Super Guppy is an oversized airplane, used for carrying large components which just can't fit into a regular plane. It is owned by NASA - not surprisingly because NASA tends to have large things that are difficult to transport :) Today's delivery was part of the Space Shuttle Trainer - the crew compartment to be precise.
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| The Super Guppy was running late so we had some time to kill. |
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| Kai played with his plane, while Isaac became engrossed in a book. |
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| Our first view was an odd shaped airplane appoaching. |
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| Once it was closer, we could see the odd shape much better. |
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| It did a fly by first, and then came back for it's landing. Any guesses why it's called The Super Guppy ;-) |
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| And finally, the Super Guppy landed - with Seattle born astronaut Greg Johnson, at the controls. |
The plane opens in half, allowing for the cargo to be removed. We also had a chance to explore the museum but ran out of time due to the fact that we wanted to get home in time to greet Ben - back from his trip to Amsterdam. We will definately have to head back on another day when we have more time and there are less people there - perhaps on one of the days when Elizabeth is at Summer Camp because my two boys were definately more interested.
1 comment:
This looks like it was a lot of fun. Of course it happened when I was out of town :-)
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