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Exactly 10 years ago today, this incredible photo was taken of an F-15E Strike Eagle flying by as Space Shuttle Atlantis launched to the International Space Station! Pretty spectacular.
Photo: Air Force
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We caught the #Boeing #777x performing a refused takeoff test demonstrating acceleration, and then abruptly stopping the plane using breaks only. #TheViewFromHere
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The 777X just tookoff from Boeing Field, and we still love watching those wingtips fold into place! #Avgeeks #Boeing777xlovers #boeing777x
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The new 777X was right outside Museum PR Guy's window before he heard it coming! So he only managed to grab a quick video as the plane turned onto the taxiway next to the Museum. We'll do better next time!
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40 years between the #Boeing 737 and Boeing 787. What a difference a few decades of advances in #aviation technology makes!
#AvGeeks #Planespotting
ALT A Boeing 787 looms above a Boeing 737. The 737 appears about one half to one third as long as the 787. Even though it’s the older plane, the 737 is short enough to be tucked under the wing of the 787, as though the 787 were a mother bird protecting its child.
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We caught the 737 landing on the North side of Boeing Field! This is the beginning of the 737 MAX re-certification test flights. While the video experienced heat distortion, it was quite a sight!
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Today we opened up the M-21 Blackbird cockpit! An exciting experience to say the least... now this is the BEST kind of spring cleaning!🤩
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Museum PR Guy just had to step outside and watch this 777X takeoff today—a beautiful day for flying!
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777x takeoff on this sunny afternoon! Apologies for the shaky hands, we didn't have time to grab a tripod. Always an exciting sight...
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Number 7 Blue Angel just departed BFI. Thanks for visiting, and happy birthday to the Number 7 pilot Lcdr. Thomas Zimmerman! See you all in August.
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Sometimes we need a little pick-me-up (literally). Who misses the Space Shuttle era? Check out this incredible image from 2008 of NASA’s Endeavor being carried on a Boeing 747 SCA headed back to the Kennedy Space Center.
Photo: NASA/Carla Thomas
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Here is a group of Incredible people who met at the #1 Jumbo Jet today for a belated celebration of the 747's first flight, 50 years ago. Many of the people in this photo made this plane a reality! Thanks for helping improve the world! #Avgeeks #Boeing #Boeing747
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Happy Presidents Day!🇺🇸 Did you know our Museum is home to the FIRST presidential jet plane, a Boeing 707-120 by the name of SAM (Special Air Missions) 970. Our Air Force One has seen the likes of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon!
Step Inside➡️ bit.ly/2N9AvPg
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On this dark drizzly Seattle day it is nice to be reminded that summer--and its Blue Angels air shows--will return!
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Hopefully his boss isn't watching, because it is an air show at Boeing Field today and Museum PR Guy is spending a lot of time outside of his office watching planes! Boeing test planes, biz jets, new airliners and GA nonstop. Plus these gorgeous skies and the 777!
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There was not a lot of aircraft activity at Boeing Field today. Then just before 5pm, our 777 friend lands and turns off of the runway just outside of Museum PR Guy's office window. Sorry for the fuzzy image!
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The Museum parking lot has officially transformed into a bayou with @AmericanIdol winner @TheLaineHardy taking the stage at #LunarBlockParty !
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Plane parade! Boeing's ecoDemonstrator followed by a NZ C-130. Great day for #planespotting here at the Museum.
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The PBY based at @museumofflight this weekend makes it’s first flight of the day.
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Speaking of luck...🍀🍀🍀
Yesterday we just so happen to be outside when the #Boeing 777x was taxiing by. We spent a sunny afternoon watching this incredible aircraft! #HappyStPatricksDay
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Not-PR-Guy noticed this big boy ready to take off while stopping to fill up his mug at the water cooler, so rushed out to record the takeoff. He was particularly tickled by the float plane puttering up in the queue behind the Boeing 777x-9.
#AvGeek #Planespotting
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Triple 7X took off this morning for a beautiful Valentine’s Day flight. Note the tiny tornadoes below the engines before it rolls.
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777X on final! One of our spies caught this 777X approaching Boeing Field this morning. Nice!
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Today's sights and sounds.... a quick #777X flyover! Always a favorite here at the Museum.✈️
Sound on!🔊
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UW Husky Footballer Dillon Johnson was at the @museumofflight this week for a cool photo shoot with him showing off the team’s fantastic new uniform, which is something to yell about! @Dill_7k @UNISWAG @adidasFballUS @UW_Football
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We are saddened to learn that Charlie Watts, @RollingStones drummer and #avgeek, passed away. During their tour stop in Seattle, Charlie brought some family by the Museum for a memorable visit. Here he is getting a look at the ball turret on our B-17. #RIP
ALT Charlie Watts kneels below the wing of a B-17 bomber, craning to see inside the plane's ball turret. He is accompanied by another man, Matt Hayes.
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It’s been a slow afternoon at Boeing Field, so Museum PR Guy was glad to see the Boeing 777 ecoDemonstrator taxi by after its nearly 4-hour flight.
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Museum PR Guy just happened to be near the tarmac this morning (beautiful day to be outside!) when this 777X does an exciting slow taxi-by maneuver! The fire truck is a bonus.
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Museum PR Guy was stuck at his desk for both the takeoff and landing of 777X today! Good thing he has big windows.
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Look what just moved into the @museumofflight parking lot for the day.
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It was a quiet morning at Boeing Field, then a thumping sound outside got Museum PR Guy's attention. Osprey! A total of five landed. Quite the Osprey nest at KBFI.
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The festivities are beginning. Today we wish B-17 pilot and museum volunteer Dick Nelms a happy 100th birthday!
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On now! Come meet @NASAPersevere and #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity at The Museum of Flight! 🌌🚀🤩
Details ➡️ bit.ly/3nm9VR8
#MarsRoverTour #Mars #PerseveranceRover #Space #NASA @NASAJPL
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#OTD in 1957 The Boeing 367-80, N70700, prototype made a transcontinental demonstration flight from Boeing Field to Friendship National Airport in Baltimore, Maryland! The flight took 3 hours and 48 minutes covering 2,350 miles.
Photo: (Leonard Mccombe/LIFE Magazine)
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#Throwback to this incredible moment... The space shuttle Endeavor perched on the back of a Boeing 747 makes its way past the Golden Gate Bridge.
As described by the Associated Press, “the ultimate piggy-back ride.”
Photo: NASA.gov
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This rainbow formed over the airport just as the Museum closed up for the day. @KSeattleWeather
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Private Division opens Seattle game development studio to create Kerbal Space Program 2 geekwire.com/2020/private-di… via @GeekWire
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As the sun sets over the William E. Boeing Red Barn we’d like to acknowledge Boeing’s 104th Birthday! Today is Boeing Founders Day. We celebrate many years of aerospace innovation since 1916.✈️
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We are bidding farewell to our MiG-17. The old bird will have a new roost at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California. Today a crew from March began disassembling the plane so they can truck it south to take a place with March’s lineup of a MiG-15, -19, -21 and -23.
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The @POTUS helicopter support just took off from @KingCountyWA International Airport.
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See a Concorde crossing the road! Nov1-2 we move Air Force One, 727, 247 into Aviation Pavilion, but we move some planes out-and in-again!
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Zara Rutherford arrived at the Museum just before sundown today, after a nearly four hour flight from Redding! Welcome to Seattle Zara! flyzolo.com
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Fat Albert taking off while the #BlueAngels swoop by!
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Look! A P-8 Poseidon taxiing by the Museum.👀 #TheViewFromHere
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Even #starwars stormtroopers know how to celebrate good times, c’mon! #yurisnight #party #FridayFeelings #seattle
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It’s out of the box! Percy is home at @museumofflight and setting up now.
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All our aircraft get a cleaning on a regular basis. Some are easier to reach than others! #AvGeek
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See Michael Cudlitz from @HBO "Band of Brothers" at the Museum for a screening of the #WWII documentary "Return to Hardwick" this Saturday! bit.ly/2BciDcW #HBO #documentary #avgeek #aviation
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Lunch with a view... a KC-46 #Pegasus passing by our Museum windows!👋✈️ #TheViewFromHere
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At 1pm today, watch the #WWII #documentary "Return to Harwick" and join a conversation after the screening with @HBO Band of Brothers actor Michael Cudlitz.
This screening is FREE with Museum admission bit.ly/2OOzHOk #history #aviation #avgeek
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We love reunions. Yesterday, 100-year-old Helen Vaudrin visited our Restoration Center to see the Goodyear F2G-1 that she helped build--when she was a Rosie the Riveter in Akron, Ohio during World War II. Today was the first time she met the finished Corsair she helped create.
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It looks like @TheLaineHardy just made his official announcement about #LunarBlockParty! Get tickets to see him and @AmericanIdol Top 10 on July 20 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the #moon landing! bit.ly/Lunar-Block-Party
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The Blue Angels just left. See you next year! #seafairissummer #usnavyblueangels #avgeeks #seattleattractions
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The RAF's P-8 is comfy cozy in the parking lot at the Museum. Here's a low-action video of the arrival. #Avgeeks #RoyalAirForce
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Join us as we watch the first mission to send humans into orbit from U.S. soil since 2011!
Hosted by Adjunct Curator for Space History, Geoff Nunn, retired astronaut Wendy Lawrence and Dr. Dieter M. Zube, docent and Senior Spaceflight Propulsion Engineer.
bit.ly/2TvFARW
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