Airplanes!

This week we went on a field trip date to the Hill Air Force Base Aerospace Museum. It was really cool! Troy was telling me all about the different parts of other planes, and we had a blast. We totally recommend going, it's a free awesome date! Here are a ton of pictures:

These are all the planes they had outside:

So these red "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" canvas tags are all over the planes, and we found a cool keychain in the gift shop after that was a smaller version, so of course we bought one for the pilot. :]

We were practicing pulling the ejection cords:

This was one of the helicopters we saw (Not as cool as a plane, but still)

This is one of the exhaust things. (I have no idea what it is really called) In Troy's class he just learned the exhaust can be exerted up to 300 mph!!

This is the closest plane we saw to what Troy flies now. Except his is a low wing (he steps on the wing to get into the cockpit rather than ducking under it) and it weighs a lot less. This particular plane was a leaflet dropping plane instead of a bomb dropping one. :]

This is the cockpit of one of the planes

This was a cool shot of one of the propellers

This is an original engine from a plane. It has all kinds of corrosion and aging it was really cool

This is an instrument panel, and Troy was pointing out what all of the different dials meant. A lot of them were similar to what he looks at when he flies!

This was the plane that the women in WW2 flew. They were of course the coolest looking ones. :] They were also the safest group of fliers, with out of about 1800 pilots losing only 38.

This was the first flight simulator. The one Troy will use is much more high tech

Sardine Canyon is beautiful right now! We have been having perfect weather, and I'm sad to see that it might be going away. :/ At least we got to enjoy fall for a little while in Logan.