User:Nagpur India/Musium of Flight, Seattle

Museum of Flight, Seattle is a gateway to the science of Aviation: from Physics to World war II Legacy. It is the world’s largest private, not-for-profit air and space museum. It depicts the history and the people who made aviation and space exploration possible. The museum shares historically significant air and space artifacts (including the Wright Brothers Aircraft of 1903) as a foundation both for research and for lifelong learning programs that inspires and shall continue to inspire generations after generations. The steel and glass pavilion contains over 40 historic aircraft, tracing the history of the first century of human flight. There are TVs at various places through which we learn about the science of flying as well as about historical developments that navigated the human progress. The investigation of Apollo I fire on January 27, 1967, gave the engineers an early lesson on Failure Mode and effect Analysis (FMEA); an engineering tool which has become common in the contemporary engineering Design and Development  Hearing the portion of the Speech by Late Mr. John F. Kennedy, former President of United States, at Rice University, justifying the Lunar Mission – can be very was touching as well as motivating.

The original manufacturing plant of Boeing can make one think as to how difficult it might have been for our predecessors to work. Despite all the difficulties and limitations; the then engineers never stopped exploration. Located just across the street from the main campus (we need to pass through an over-the road glass tunnel), there are America’s first jet Air force One (the Aircraft used by the President of America) and the West Coasts only Concorde.

There is a Kid’s flight zone where children (of all age) can strap into harnesses to test their piloting skills in one of the two hang gliding simulators or enter a balloon gondola basket to send a hot air balloon to the ceiling. The Word War I and II galleries have lots of information about these 2 wars. The aircraft used then are kept with lots of useful historical detailing. The 35 MM film show took us to that period and made us feel as to how horrifying the situation might have been. Sixty million people (mostly civilians) perishing in World War II and habitat turned into a barren land. Some of the posters displayed during the war will certainly catch one's attention.

In this museum, there are knowledgeable and enthusiastic docents who are ready to provide all the required information. Also, there are 4D simulator and 3 D ride. The museum store has various mementos that include a wide variety of flight-related gifts, apparel, books, models, and educational toys.

Source: Brochure received at the Entry to the Museum. Nagpur India (talk) 18:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)