To the Air Zoo

We finally made our trip to the Air Zoo this past weekend to enjoy the free admission.

Jeremy kept telling me, " they're only open until 5:00."

We got there at 1:29. We were back in the car at 2:07. I'm not sure what he thought we were going to do.

They do have simulators and rides too but, the lines were long and Jacob, too short!



Can you say TOP GUN? I didn't realize how huge these planes are! Wow!

It's a Grumman F-14A Tomcat

I had said to Jeremy - this is only one of these, and they line them up on the aircraft carriers 10 and 20 at a time, whoa, those carriers gotta be BIG!

This was Jeremy's favorite.














Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird
I was just tall enough to touch a tip of one of the wings. It kinda felt like an old tire without the give - from the material giving the SR71 it's stealth capabilities.











This was my favorite. It's a Grumman G-73 Mallard. The wheels slide out from the sides. It's privately owned. It's big and it's beautiful! Could you imagine what it costs to gas her up?











This is a Corsair as she would have been on the flight deck in her day.

Besides all that, it is a fantastic place to visit. Between the 2 buildings the Air Zoo hosts over 50 historic aircraft.

In the building behind Jacob (in the top picture) and the plane, they show a movie about the bombers over Germany in WWII. Also, there is an amazing mural painted around the room showing the B-17 in flight as well as many other aircraft. (More pics on Flickr, of course or better yet - check them out at http://www.airzoo.org/)