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The highlight of Christmas break was taking the kids to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, on the south side of Boeing's massive chunk of real estate. It was great- much bettter than I expected. We took lots of pics, of course, so I'll have to post them in multiple posts. They aren't in any order either.
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SR-71 Blackbird. Fastest plane ever built.
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Canada was nice enough to donate a third of their aircraft to the museum. He he.
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A glider simulator in the kid's zone.
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Incredible building!
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Space capsule.