An awesome museum
Mar. 24th, 2006 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuThis morning, my father and I took the kids to The Cradle of Aviation Museum which is a few blocks from Roosevelt Field in Nassau County, NY. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
introverte and my Mom were doing Pesach shopping at the time.) This is actually a quite reasonable location for such a museum: Roosevelt Field, before it became a shopping mall, was the airfield from which Charles Lindbergh took off for France, and the area has been home to many aircraft manufacturers over the years.
The kids didn't really have the patience to really appreciate the museum, which has some cool artifacts of powered and unpowered flight. The absolute coolest was a real Lunar Module that was scheduled to go up with Apollo 19. In general, the museum didn't have models or replicas, it had "near miss" artifacts (such as this LEM, or the actual simulator that the Apollo astronauts used, or a sister airplane of The Spirit of St. Louis).
We have to go back in a few years when the kids are old enough to appreciate it.
introverte and my Mom were doing Pesach shopping at the time.) This is actually a quite reasonable location for such a museum: Roosevelt Field, before it became a shopping mall, was the airfield from which Charles Lindbergh took off for France, and the area has been home to many aircraft manufacturers over the years.The kids didn't really have the patience to really appreciate the museum, which has some cool artifacts of powered and unpowered flight. The absolute coolest was a real Lunar Module that was scheduled to go up with Apollo 19. In general, the museum didn't have models or replicas, it had "near miss" artifacts (such as this LEM, or the actual simulator that the Apollo astronauts used, or a sister airplane of The Spirit of St. Louis).
We have to go back in a few years when the kids are old enough to appreciate it.