2005 Udvar-Hazy Trip
When we were invited to appear at the first-ever "Be a Pilot Day" at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, representing "family flying," we were thunderstruck. I mean, who would ever have thought that we could progress from being "fossils" to "museum exhibits" so quickly?
Seriously, it was a great honor, and we had an absolutely marvelous trip. To be on display in the same venue as the Space Shuttle and SR-71 Blackbird was just amazing, and we will remember it for a lifetime. Better yet, we may have changed a few minds about general aviation, and hopefully may have made a few converts to this wondrous thing we call "flying"...
Read the story and click on the links, below, to see pictures from the trip.
Tuesday - Flight to Rantoul, Illinois
Wednesday - Flight to Frederick, Maryland
Thursday - Visit to Gettysburg Battlefield & Flight into Dulles
Friday - The Washington, D.C. Mall
Saturday - at Udvar-Hazy
Sunday - the flight home -- almost
Monday - the flight home
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