Air Museum
We found a great activity for this cold rainy day – the Air Museum at Boeing Field. What a treat!
Mark ran around identifying all the planes and then looking at the display information to verify his expertise, or to make disparaging remarks about the exhibit errors when he found them. I, of course, took pictures. We both had a great time. Their collection is impressive, from early aviation to space exploration and everything commercial and military in between. And I have this to say about air travel – we’ve been going backwards. Not only do we not have the Concord anymore (yes, they have one, open for viewing!) but we don’t have all the wonderful luxuries of elaborate menus and para-military uniforms on young, trim ‘stewardesses’ and a focus on ‘service quality’ in our commercial service. Those were the glory days of air travel.
Anyway, they have a new wing devoted to WWI and II and there the displays are really impressive and the stories more elaborate. Of course Mark disputed some of that too…
But my favorite thing was the ‘decoration’ of the military planes – what were they thinking? The rooster is French – doesn’t it just figure?
posted by Cathy @ 7:41 PM
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When it comes to domestic air travel, you are no doubt correct as far as your observations. However, air travel abroad is much different, at least on Virgin Atlantic and British Airways. Each provide a standard uniform for their crews, (I particularly like the Virgin 'red guard' uniforms) and there also seems to be more of them to wander about the cabin. And last but not least... they were friendly and acted as though they wanted to be there!
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