The morning after Megan's showcase event, we stopped at the Hill Aerospace Museum on our drive back to Logan. We had not visited since Ian was Dallin's age, so it had been a few years. There is an outdoor display area of numerous planes as well as an indoor display area. Obviously, the largest planes are located outside. This was a huge cargo plane piloted by Utah's own Jake Garn (his name is painted by the windshield).
Megan was almost as tall as the wheels!
Inside there was a room filled with pilot uniforms and flying gear throughout history (sorry, no photos of those), and there were two hangars filled with smaller planes, jets, and helicopters.
Erin especially liked the planes that were painted with shark faces.
Dallin liked the fact that he had long stretches of pavement on which to run.
He shrieked loudly whenever we tried to move him to a new place.
He shrieked loudly whenever we tried to move him to a new place.
Visitors can sit in an ejector seat too.
We thought these regulations were most entertaining (click on the photo to enlarge it and read them yourselves), starting with #1 "Don't take the machine into the air unless you are satisfied it will fly." #10 "Do not trust altitude instruments" was also a little disconcerting. However, planes had only been around for 16 years in 1919.
We ended the field trip with a stop at Wendy's to redeem some
frosty coupons the children got from trick-or-treating last month.
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