No, 229 November is Aviation History Month

Celebrate Aviation History Month in November by visiting some of the best aviation museum in the Pacific Northwest featuring the male and female pioneers of aviation, the technology development, and the aircraft that kept and keeps pushing new heights for aviation.


Future of Flight Boeing Tour - Everett, WA
The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour offers the only opportunity to tour a commercial jet assembly plant in North America. The center and tour are made possible through the collaboration of the Boeing Company, Future of Flight Foundation, Snohomish County Public Facilities District and the Snohomish County Airport/Paine Field.



Museum of Flight Restoration Center - Everett, WA
In addition to the Seattle campus, the Museum of Flight operates a 23,000 square foot Restoration Center at Paine Field/Snohomish County Airport in Everett, Washington. The center is home to approximately three dozen aircraft in varying states of restoration by the Museum's volunteer restorers. Each project is a labor of love, sometimes requiring several years to complete. A group of dedicated volunteers works to restore each aircraft to exhibition quality which will then become part of static display at the Boeing Field location.

Museum of Flight -Seattle, WA
The Museum of Flight is located at the south west corner of Runway 13R/31L at Boeing Field-King County International Airport and is open daily and stays open late on First Thursday evenings, free of charge. The museum collection boasts over 85 different aircraft displayed in 9 different galleries  starting with the early manned flying machines to more modern jet aircraft. There are museum complex features nine indoor and outdoor galleries and air park and in 2012 The Museum of Flight was awarded NASA's retired Space Shuttle Crew Trainer. 

  Historic Flight Foundation - Everett, WA
Historic Flight Foundation was established in 2003 as “John T. Sessions Historic Aircraft Foundation” with the intention to collect, restore, and share significant aircraft from the period between the solo Atlantic crossing of Charles Lindbergh and the first test flight of the Boeing 707. Throughout the intervening years, Historic Flight has acquired at least two aircraft annually and engaged the best restoration resources available to return the collection to original splendor.

Flying Heritage Collection - Everett, WA
The planes within the Flying Heritage Collection were created at a time when aeronautical discovery had evolved to aviation mastery. Finely crafted by distinguished design bureaus with leading technologies of the 1930s and 1940s, the main emphasis of the collection includes combat aircraft from World War II. 

Evergreen Aviations & Space Museum

It takes a special company with a vision for seeing the large picture to take on the goal of collecting and preserving some of aviation's largest achievements. Evergreen International Aviation, Inc a company known for its heavy lifters such as the modified Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter Cargo Freighter, the forest fire fighting aerial Supertanker capable of dropping over 20,500 gallons of water or retardant and its fleet of heavy lift helicopters.

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No. 119 Last Call to the Flightline 2012

Flying Heritage Collection
Paine Field
3407 109th Street SW
Everett, WA 98204

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This weekend marks the end of the 2012 Puget Sound Region Air Show. Flying Heritage Collection based at Paine Field in Everett, Washington will be holding its last Free-Fly Day on Saturday September 29th from noon till 1pm.
Weather and aircraft readiness permitting the collections P-47 and Il-2 , plus Historic Flight Foundation Tigercat and Heritage Flight Museum P-51 Mustang are scheduled to fly from noon till 1pm with maintenance flights at around 9am.

Flying Heritage Collection P-51D Mustang

Down the Centerline Series:  Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Tallahassee Lassie"

Takeoff Power set, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51B Mustang, P-51D Mustang

FHC's P-51 Mustang / P-47 back taxi on 34L

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No. 102 Recap of VAW (No. 101)

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Here is my wrap of of 2012 Vintage Aircraft Weekend with images taken through my lens. There are 29 images covering everything from classic cars, military equipment, static aircraft and flight demonstrations.

Thanks to all the aircraft owners and pilots who put on a great event

Hangar Doors open for 2012 Vintage Aircraft Weekend

Studebaker Row - various model years represented on Studebaker Row

1941 Studebaker Sedan

US Army Military Transport Truck

Sand Bagging It

Historic Flight Foundation Supermarine 361 Spitfire LF.IXe

Historic Flight Foundation Volunteer

Douglas AD-4N Skyraider N965AD

Historif Flight Foundation Grumman F7F-3 Tigercat

Historic Flight Foundation "Grumpy" 1943 North American B-25D Mitchell

Consolidated PBY-6A 'Catalina'  PBY-6A  Tanker

Consolidated PBY-6A 'Catalina'  PBY-6A  Tanker

CF-RFS Harvard 4

Boeing Stearman Model 75

Nan & Yak

Nans and Yak

P-51 Mustang “Val-Halla” N151AF & P-51 "Impatient Virgin" N5087F

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1952 Canadian Car & Foundry Harvard 4 C/N CCF4-116 CF-RFS CF-RFS

1937 Waco &  1952 Canadian Car & Foundry Harvard 4

Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A C/N 64041 N85U

Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A C/N 64041 N85U

1964 Hispano Aviacion HA-200 SAETA C/N E.14A-32 N632HA

Grumman F7F-3 Tigercat

N97TR North American AT-6C

Douglas AD-4N Skyraider N965AD

Douglas AD-4N Skyraider N965AD

Gear Kit 

Nikon D7000 Digital Camera
Tokina 12-24mm 
Nikon 70-300mm
ThinkTankPhoto Urban Disguise 35

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No. 91 Fort Casey, Whidbey Island

United States Army Garrison Fort Casey

Located three miles south of Coupeville, Wash., on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound in Island County.
From I-5 north:
Take the Anacortes/Whidbey Island exit (#230), and drive to the Whidbey Island turnoff. From there, proceed south on Hwy. 20 to Coupeville. Follow the signs to the Keystone Ferry terminal. The park entrance sign is between the ferry terminal parking lot and the Camp Casey barracks in the 25 MPH zone.
From the Mukilteo Ferry terminal at Clinton:
Take Hwy. 525 following signs to the Keystone Ferry terminal. Pass the Keystone Ferry parking lot, and take first entrance to the left. 
From the south:
Follow signs to the Keystone Ferry terminal. Pass ferry parking lot, and take first entrance to the left.

History
In 1858, the U.S. government purchased ten acres of land costing $400 for the construction of Admiralty Head Lighthouse. In 1890, the army took over the premises. It named its garrison "Fort Casey" in honor of Brigadier General Thomas Lincoln Casey, the last U.S. Army chief of engineers. At that time, Fort Casey, in union with Fort Worden and Fort Flagler, was said to comprise a "triangle of fire" guarding the entrance to Puget Sound.

When the fort was constructed, the old lighthouse had to be moved. A new lighthouse was built on the present site in 1903. Today the Admiralty Head Lighthouse at Fort Casey serves as a historic landmark and interpretive center. The park was incorporated into Ebey's Landing National Historic
in 1980.

10 inch Shell loading port

Construction on Fort Casey was started in 1897. In 1901, her big guns on disappearing carriages, which could be raised out of their protective emplacements so that the guns were exposed only long enough to fire, became active. However, the fort's ammunition batteries became obsolete almost as soon as their construction was completed. The invention of the airplane in 1903, and the subsequent development of military aircraft made the fort vulnerable to air attack. In addition, the development of battleships designed with increasingly accurate weaponry transformed the static strategies of the nineteenth century into the more mobile attack systems of the twentieth century. Most of Fort Casey's guns and mortars were removed and sent to Europe and the Pacific during World War II, where they were mounted on railcars to serve as mobile heavy artillery. In 1935, the Coast Artillery withdrew the station's battery assignments and placed it on inactive status. As World War II approached, military officials reactivated Fort Casey after making physical improvements to the aging frame-plaster construction. Two of the fort's 10-inch (25-cm) seacoast artillery guns on their carriages were salvaged in the mid-1960's from their final active duty location at Fort Wint on the U. S. Naval Base Subic Bay.The guns showed visible shrapnel scarring from the effects of the Japanese bombings in the Philippines at the opening of World War II. Two 3-inch (76-mm) rapid-fire guns from Fort Wint are also mounted at Fort Casey.

Cannon mounted on Disappearing Carriage

The business end of a 10inch Shell

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