I love the Museum of Flight. It is the place that actually inspired me to become a pilot ever sins I was just a kid. Now I know more things about aviation then I thought I could learn. This is the reason why I'm volunteering there this summer. But as I would say to everybody. I highly recommend to visit there. And if you have kids. Make sure you take them too. This place is all about inspiring the next generation of aviators. But this place changed my life in a big way. So basically to the poin
When I went to the Museum of Flight a dozen years ago now, they had just gotten their newest display: SAM 26000, known as Air Force One to Eisenhower and JFK. It was the first 707 that we recognize as the presidential airplane, but not the one that flew Kennedy's body from Love Field in 1963. I still remember how cramped it was in the fuselage. And when I exited the plane, I felt a little like what Ike and JFK must have felt as they exited the plane - overwhelmed with the sense of history that they lived with everyday. It's what really inspired me to major in history and get into public service. This display brought history home to me.
Matthew Hines >> I know this an old comment but the Museum of Flight has I think a VC-135B in the lovely Raymond Lowey livery. So it is narrow; the same as a refueler! SAM 26000 is VC-137C which is wider and it’s preserved in the Presidential Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Cheers.
