The flight simulator at the museum is always fun | Flynn tries his best to keep the blue up and the brown down | Many of the WWI planes at the museum are reproductions, like this Nieuport 24bis | Just above the Nieuport 24 flies this Nieuport 27 | In the foreground, an actual Aviatik D.I, also known as the “Berg Scout”. Flying above and behind is the unmistakeable Sopwith Camel F.1 (a reproduction here). | An early inline-six engine |
The museum has an impressively extensive small-scale model WWI airplane collection | Quick photo op. crossing the bridge to the Airpark | The Charon, a test vehicle from local company Blue Origin designed as a proving platform for vertical take-off and landing space vehicle technology | The museums Space Shuttle landing simulators have been moved out to the Airpark with the newly acquired Space Shuttle Trainer | Flynn prepares for his mission | Innaias looks on as Guinness makes his approach for landing |
A model of the Hubble Space Telescope is within reach of the model robotic arm | I do think though that the Shuttle mission would not typically involve deploying a new satellite so close to one already in orbit ☺ | A peek in the Trainer’s Crew Compartment | The museum was not granted an actual Shuttle on their retirement, but it did acquire this Trainer, with which all Shuttle crews prepared for their missions | It could never fly, but it’s as big as the real thing and very evocative | Innaias is dwarfed by the Shuttle engines |