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| B52 - the largest plane outside the Wings Over the Rockies hangar |
For our 70/70 Quest #66 we visited the Wings Over the Rockies museum which had been on our 70/70 list from the get-go. Serendipitously, we made the trip on November 27th which would have been my dad's 111th birthday. Serendipitous because Paul George Vaughan was a captain in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII and had a life-long love of flying. Wings Over the Rockies is located at the former Lowry Air Force Base where more than one million people were trained in a wide variety of aerospace skills between 1938 and 1994. After the base closed, volunteers arranged for the creation of Wings Over the Rockies and organized the transfer of several Air Force assets to the museum. Its collection has grown to over 80 aircraft and spacecraft, intriguing exhibits (including working flight simulators, extensive information about the Amelia Project, a Colorado room, and more) and thousands of aerospace artifacts, with a strong emphasis on its Air Force roots.
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| B1 - the largest plane inside the hangar |
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| Kendall in the Colorado Room |
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| Tribute to Royal Canadian Air Force Volunteers |
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| The Sonic Arrow - perhaps the fastest vehicle in the museum built to set a land speed record but never had a chance to try. Hmmm... is Kendall taking notes? |
...And moving on to fantasy...
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| Anakin and his pod racer |
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| X Wing from the rear Hot engines! |
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| 3/4 size X Wing used for Star Wars opening in Japan |
Happy Birthday Pop!
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| Paul George Vaughan and his Spitfire, WWII |
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