A Walk Through Boeing's "Museum of Flight"

all right so it's about 10:00 in the morning few minutes before 10:00 in the morning on December 30th 2017 and I'm heading north on the road that will soon a few feet merge with east marginal way which is the north-south highway in Seattle and just up ahead is Boeing fields it's off on the right and I'm going to visit the going museum of flight today I've been here a few times before and each time I come here it's bigger orly substantially changed around turn right on D alley when possible make a u-turn then take the first right yeah it doesn't know where we are so here we are at Boeing Field and of course the Museum of Flight is just behind us here [Music] that's interstate 5 right there [Music] [Applause] going field ears quite a famous airport really just belongs to Boeing although I think they do use it for some other things it looks like some UPS planes down there but the first flights of many of the older boeing aircraft took place from this runway I'm not positive but I gather that the factories where they were assembled would have been here at the same time that seems likely of course now Boeing's facilities in the Seattle area are up and the Everett region north of Seattle but there are still a lot of hangars and factory type buildings surrounding Boeing field and a lot of research and experimental stuff happens here but if you look and see a lot of those earlier flights I seem to recall that the first flight of the b-52 for example took place from this runway and you can see pictures of it or videos of it taking off with the same backdrop with the trees on the hill and so on so it should just develop be open now I had gotten here a couple of minutes early is actually some Sun today maybe it'll clear up more the prediction was for a 20% chance of rain today at some point but it doesn't appear it's going to be as wet as yesterday was [Music] who is get a kick out of some of these older airplanes by today's standards how simple the landing gear is just look like sticks [Music] [Music] I'm glad they have this as a gatekeeper out here they it says a few things first it's a spectacular airplane to have in front of any aircraft museum and even though this is a Boeing facility and museum of flight is run by Boeing or owned by Boeing the Lockheed Constellation of course is by a different manufacturer so it's also saying [Applause] it's also saying hey we're not just a bowing museum this is a world-class aircraft museum and you're not just going to see Boeing products here [Music] when I was here before they did not have that facility across the highway and I can see that it looks like it's ready for business so that'll greatly expand the amount of museum space to see today and that looks like a dream liner in there that may be the prototype we'll find out I did see the prototype before it was the last time I visited this museum and at that point it was parked right out here where this parking lot was and the cars were parking elsewhere and I had a private tour just by the roll of the dice really a private one-on-one tour of that prototype Dreamliner 787 from one of the two pilots who flew it on its maiden flight which was very cool so let's go inside looks like general admission is $23 per adult $14 her kids so I'm going to do a walk-through of the museum similar to ones I've done for the Smithsonian Air and Space and the National Museum of the United States Air Force and Dayton starting off here with the famous Red Barn the Red Barn is the relocated original facility where Boeing got its start as a number of appropriate artifacts in it and as with so many factories of the era there was a single power plant for the entire factory and had overhead shafts which ran along and then pulleys were dropped down to each machine tool so we have a table saw and an old wood planer for changing the thickness of boards [Music] and this was an example of type of power plant they would have used this is a fairbanks-morse six horsepower gas engine [Music] and a jointer I think this guy's mispositioned and his hands should be on the wood [Music] and a bandsaw without a blade installed at the moment [Music] the red barn was a flexible workspace they could reallocate the space to assemble airplanes or do machining or any number of things required depending on which contracts they were awarded and had to work on so they according to this they mostly had the power tools at one end and then kept the rest of the space mobile and versatile as it says here no one knew what the next job would be Boeing of course started out as a timber company before mr. Boeing decided that he wouldn't take his chances he thought he could build an airplane at least as well or better than the other companies that were doing it [Music] so there's various small exhibits here relating to the early days and this is a Boeing model see it's a reproduction [Music] had the basic wooden frame than with tensioned guy wires providing for the various stresses very lightweight wooden strap chair for the pilot very direct pulley operation for the controls and then we have the front seat which has at least in this instance basic flight controls but no instrumentation the heavy engine mounts and the hall Scott a7a inline engine this appears to be a pontoon structure and of course there's a wood lathe here representing that particular tool I had been chatting with a docent few minutes ago and he said this is in fact the original Boeing building it's not a reproduction and it was up north of Seattle where one of the rivers I forget which one he said it was comes into Puget Sound and it eventually passed over to the Port Authority of Seattle and they wanted the land but not the building and so it was dismantled and and brought here and it was the first structure at the museum of flight when they first decided to have a museum here and he pointed out the building is mostly original but of course you know they had to replace some wood here and there and he pointed out all these pillars are sawed off here because originally it was just on a dirt floor and very close to the water and everything was rotted out so they cut him off to the point where they weren't rotted and then spliced in the new beams and pillars and so old wood new wood [Music] oops they just had a nice picture of the building being moved looks like it was brought over intact I thought it was taken apart but [Music] it was the Duwamish River that was mentioned and this is what they considered to be plant one starting in 1918 you have the Red Barn there and then the larger hangars and machine shops design facilities [Music] and that models see that we looked at earlier was the plane that Boeing was contracted to build for the Navy and this is a Boeing model for zero B for evey from 1928 this would have been their own design and it's a metal skinned aircraft with welded tubing frame and wooden stringers I'm not certain from this but it looks like the part in between would have been fabric covered and then these are their parts being metal skinned [Music] this one had a male and/or passenger compartment up front pilot back in the middle and out in the elements a notion that persisted for a long time that the pant pilot should somehow be outdoors and not inside where it's dry and clear and the Red Barn does have an upstairs which would have been used for engineering purposes and probably other office type purposes as well [Music] some of the early ears types of airplanes although I wouldn't call the model two four seven all that early [Applause] [Music] on something on the XP 15 experimental bomber the xB 15 which ended up becoming the b-17 type aircraft in general [Music] and they're a couple scale models of the model 247 bowing against the Douglas dc-3 comparable sized airplanes but the Douglas was definitely a much better airplane in so many ways at least as a passenger airplane and you have the model 307 Stratoliner world's first for engine passenger plane with a pressurized cabin and that I believe was based on the b-17 wing and tail but with a different fuselage and then of course the 3:14 clipper used for mostly for trans-pacific flights but it got some use during the war for example here President Roosevelt in a 3:14 [Music] [Music] [Music] number of tools used by people building airplanes during World War two there's a couple scale models of the b-17 and the b-29 this b-29s marked-up is Fifi from the Confederate or commemorative Air Force and this is a turbosupercharger from a I think from the b-17 yeah from the b-17 wind tunnel models of the b-17 and another aircraft this is the AE 106 it's um an engineering study model not a specific airplane a gallery on the sea 97 and 377 straddle cruiser and on the b-47 and b-52 [Applause] this is a b-52 pilots instrument panel with a lot of the parts removed and the - 80 which is the prototype of the 707 type of design although earlier and smaller and the kc-135 which is the cargo version of the aircraft I have a little display here on Tex Johnston who played a big part in convincing people that the - 80 design was a game changer and a worthy aircraft one of his stunts was flying the - ad upside down for airshow at the Seattle area famous make sure there and I would guess that some of Tex Johnston's stuff I actually met text once did a nice job writing his autobiography very interesting book and he signed a copy for me which I really am pleased to have his cowboy boots and one of his flight elements alright let's get on to the rest of the museum okay leaving the red barn I'm going to go back through the lobby into the great gallery [Music] [Music] the Museum of light over here in the lobby are reproductions of some very early aircraft that one was probably never built that was one of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings that here they've turned into an actual full-scale model you've got a Chanute hang glider [Music] and the Lilienthal monoplane and the right glider I believe this is the Crumpler Talbot reproduction [Music] note to museum of flight documentation people it's one thing to have numbered circles that relate to a menu of aircraft types but it's much more useful to have an outline of the airplane drawn to scale it helps people get oriented especially when there's a bunch close together [Music] nobody [Music] there used to be a gossamer albatross hanging up here and I don't see it don't know if they took it out or relocated it or what this is a reproduction of the Wright Flyer [Music] [Music] and I can see absolutely nothing saying what this airplane is [Music] don't see a sign for it [Music] maybe this one way over here identifies it let's see [Music] it's way over in front that's the thing [Music] okay this is a Boeing model for zero B and we saw the open frame version of that in the Red Barn with the skin missing and no wings [Music] and that up there should be a Boeing BMW replica [Music] that may be a Lamson el 106 elk or this is apparently called the swallow commercial it's a little hard to identify these positively from the menu they give you and that should be a Ryan m1 and it does look like a Ryan aircraft [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] an old a US mail truck and over there is a Cessna CG - glider and that's the MacAlister Yakima clipper and as a person who likes heath kits for the electronics that's Heath's airplane kit that they made one of their earliest kits and that's their parasol the heath parasol and a Douglas dc-3 okay now I found the gossamer albatross [Music] it was right above me but not in the place I was looking for it human-powered aircraft that was basically a competition to see who could build the first human powered aircraft that would meet certain criteria for performance and duration of flight [Music] this should be the Boeing agm-86 be air-launched cruise missile it's a mock-up and just over here [Music] is the fee slur fi 103 cruise missile from World War two better known as the v1 and this is the Lockheed Martin RQ 3a otherwise known as the Dark Star [Music] and there is a leer personal aircraft this one's called the leer fan as a propeller on it in the rear and over here we have a lockheed f-104 sea star fighter and behind is a psyche or ski HH 52 ac Guard helicopter [Music] and that's a Stevens macro acrobatic or aerobatic airplane and there's a Northrup yf5 a freedom fighter and there's a Bauer's fly baby 1a and over there is a Piper j-3 cub and there's a beach c-45 H otherwise known as the D 18 and the Iran grasshopper it's a little hard to get pictures the ones hanging up high because with all the glass everything is backlit and I don't have any good way of illuminating those from the front this is the Boeing model 80 a - one and of course we have a lockheed blackbird [Music] this is an M 21 it's the version that was set up to carry the drone and then right above it attached to it we have the Lockheed d-21b drone [Music] this particular Electra has some notoriety this one was modified by and flown by Linda Finch to replicate and spiritually completes Amelia Earhart's final and incomplete flight [Music] she had it painted and modified to very closely match the one that Earhart flew in her around the world attempt with a few safety enhancements and the 60th anniversary of the start of Earhart's attempt her first attempt to fly around the world in 1997 this is she fellow dear hearts wrote as closely as possible had to make a few changes flew north around Africa to avoid the ongoing civil war in Sudan and made a few extra stops while crossing the Pacific she could not land at Howell an island but did drop a wreath as she passed the island to honorary her its memory so this one's been around the world [Music] here's another view of the beach see 45 H and the f-104 and some of the other planes we saw from the front earlier on [Music] this is a mega 15 [Music] and by the way there's one of the aircraft marked up as the Blue Angels on a pylon outside [Music] and this is a mig-21 on the floor and the cockpit section of a sr-71 which you can actually go and sit in and this is a canadair built saber mark 6 [Music] and an f8u-1 crusader i still think that the front of this airplane is one of the coolest looking i've seen on any type of fighter to me it just works it clicks but then the whole rest of the airplane is blah [Music] [Music] and down on the floor here we have the Bell uh-1h Iroquois otherwise known as the Huey [Music] and over there is the McDonald f-4c phantom 2 [Music] and this is a dg5 o5m pearl and glider marked up with NASA markings for whatever reason [Music] there's a little gallery over there called the flight zone it's really set up for kids this whole area is more like a Learning Center for kids up in that area [Music] this is the j58 engine start cart mute meet the Buick this is what was used to start the engines on the sr-71 blackbird use two Buick Wildcat v8 automobile racing engines side by side through a series of gears the two Buick engines drive a vertical shaft connected to one of the Blackbirds j58 aircraft engines these Buicks have no mufflers and full-throttle is needed to crank the engine to a starting speed of 3,200 rpm the noise is deafening [Music] particular yo3 a is a nearly silent observation aircraft use the plane spot nighttime enemy activity and direct artillery fire during the Vietnam War used an ultra efficient airframe based on a Schweitzer SGS 2-30 to glider [Music] [Music] so this is the Williams x-jet from 1974 a one-man vertical takeoff and landing system it's controlled just by leaning in the direction of the desired travel of travel direction and adjusting the power can be made to move in any direction accelerate rapidly hover and rotate on its axis and stay aloft for up to 45 minutes and travel at speeds up to 60 miles an hour [Music] this is a proof-of-concept example and flew numerous test flights and is displayed exactly as it was after its final flight I think though that it probably had a human in it instead of a mannequin [Music] and this is a Taylor Aerocar model free [Music] which the diagram come to Minami underneath the sr-71 here [Music] [Music] [Music] and this is the cockpit from a northrop fa-18 el hornet [Music] [Music] but remember the beards that the client [Music] that's one of the few places I've seen a cutaway of a wet wing as used on commercial aircraft showing the relative thickness of the wing skin material fairly thick but it does have to have a lot of structural strength and then they ribbing [Music] and then the whole open area is used for containment of fuel [Music] [Music] run the Blackbirds Oh [Music] Oh some signage here for the fils ler fi 103 otherwise known as the v1 first cruise missile and in this little squeaker right up here this is the Boeing agm-86 be air-launched cruise missile well this isn't this one is over here [Music] and this is another view of the Boeing agm-86 feet air-launched cruise missile it's a mock-up of it we saw that below earlier and this little squeaker is the eros on Lima airborne weatherman [Music] and the scan eagle portable observer [Music] [Music] this is a example of the Schmidt roar es 109 co 14 Argos engine this is the engine used in the buzz bomb or the v1 [Music] [Music] excuse me hey buddy you ready to see the other things possible excuse me are these the jump seats this is a Pratt read PRG one glider [Music] this is one of the smaller side exhibits dedicated to the Apollo program [Music] [Music] it's one of the f1 engines has used on the Saturn 5 first stage [Music] [Music] yes [Music] this is the remains of an f1 engine after the first stage fell back to land in the ocean and the pieces are arranged as they would be for the top part the engine Bell itself was totally crushed so only these other parts remained more or less intact [Music] and this is the fuel injector from an f1 [Music] yeah [Music] I mean [Music] the idea was to give astronauts a better status mobility allowing them to cover a greater distance during their relatively short one of my favorite YouTube bloggers or V bloggers [Music] and this is a model of the lunar roving vehicle it's not a real one [Music] this was a piece of moon rock collected by the Apollo 12 mission [Music] and this is a mock-up of the Apollo portable life support system back pack [Music] and this is an Apollo command module number zero zero seven a as originally called CM zero zero seven it's the very first production line Apollo command module delivered to NASA and was used as a test vehicle [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and a mock-up of the ascent stage of the lunar landing module [Music] and this is a spare Viking Lander module or capsule [Music] and here we have some scale models of the redstone rocket these are all 172nd scale I've got at 170 second scale Saturn five rocket at home at least it's supposed to be 170 second scale but it seems to me it's a bit smaller than this so maybe I remember incorrectly pretty close to the same size though anyway a redstone rocket [Music] an atlas rocket a Titan to and of course the redstone in the Atlas were used for the mercury missions and the Titan was used for the Gemini missions and you got a Saturn 1b which was used for the smaller Apollo missions when they didn't have to carry as much stuff up or achieved the same velocities and of course the Saturn five which was used for the missions that actually went to the moon [Music] [Music] [Music] and it's about time for a lunch we're gonna take this please [Music] and they have a decent size gift shop here [Music] there's a big line of people it looks like trying to get into the into the diner here [Music] doesn't look that bad up next is the Jay Elroy macaw personal courage wing [Music] here's a Supermarine Spitfire LF mark nine [Music] and they messerschmitt bf-109 III [Music] [Music] appears a lockheed p-38 el lightning located across the sky bridge on the West Campus dozen Ken Smith will discuss current aerospace topics and news short videos will be shown about this past weeks launches this is a 50-minute talk [Music] and this is a Curtiss p-40 in Warhawk [Music] and this is a nakajima ki-43 3 a Hayabusa [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a General Motors built fm2 wildcat designed by Grumman built by General Motors and this is the chance vought FG 1d Corsair this example built by Goodyear has so many of them were pratt and whitney r-2800 8w engine core with most of the cylinders removed [Music] [Music] an example of pierced steel planking used for runways in primitive areas could be brought in in small panels by cargo aircraft or ships and assembled to make a usable runway and ramp area for aircraft this is a Republic p-47 D Thunderbolt [Music] [Music] [Music] and this is a vehicle if yak you [Music] [Music] [Music] and in North American p-51 D Mustang so these were world war ii fighter aircraft and on the second floor is a gallery of world war one aircraft as they point out it's because those are lighter and make more sense to be upstairs [Music] and this is just an overhead view of the first floor gallery [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a caproni CA 20 some nice displays relating to the use of balloons after him done [Music] this is a Fokker e3 eindecker monoplane is essentially what that means [Music] [Applause] this is a royal aircraft factory se5a [Music] and they Sopwith triplane [Music] and up here is a Sopwith Pup [Music] this is an albatraoz d-va [Music] and there's a Fokker dr1 triplane [Music] there's a new port type 27 and down here is a new port type 24 [Music] and here's an AV a tech d1 [Music] this is from the austro-hungarian branch of the German a VA tech company interesting camouflage scheme on there [Music] and this is a new port type 28 and a SPAD 13 listen to the curator of a couple of the hangars at the National Museum of the United States Air Force see my other video on that but note to the curators you can have theatrical and dramatic lighting a vintage aircraft without having them be in total darkness come see this place learn how it's done and this is a Curtis JN 4d better known as the Jenny and up above is a Sopwith 7f one snipe this one's a reproduction and this is a false d12 I liked that comment by Frank Tallman like most German aircraft of the period to get into the cockpit you have to have been sired by giraffes or have a ladder really nice model of a Zeppelin this is the Zeppelin l30 model they've even got the detailed rigging which is going to be hard to see here for the tail surfaces there we go got the tail gunner very detailed the rear gondola [Music] [Music] in this instance the engines are in that pod and then they just have a driveshaft and going up the side with radiators upon the strutting instead of having the engines out here exposed the elements as was done on some other Zeppelin type aircraft [Music] it's a really nice job on this again enclosed engines [Music] another enclosed engine of the rear of the command gondola [Music] nice job of modeling guys and over here is a Fokker d8 in a very dramatic pose [Music] and that concludes a quick walk-around of this gallery [Music] they had some guys upstairs pretending to be soldiers and now we've got a live act down here [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that might be a perk of coming here on a Saturday I'm not sure they have that on weekdays [Music] [Music] and then through the T Evans Wyckoff or a wick off Memorial Bridge [Music] which by the way is open air [Music] on this side it's got glass but it's not really sealed and this side it's only got partial glass up to the safety level and then it's open-air [Music] and we can see a preview of the Aviation pavilion over there [Music] which is open-air but covered more or less than the elements [Music] [Applause] [Music] and this bridge is set up so it can also be used it's just a simple walkway across this highway there are bus stops here both sides of the road and there's auxilary parking or older flow parking behind these pavilions and galleries on this side of the road so this is the Charles cemani space gallery [Applause] [Music] this is the space shuttle trainer which requires a special admission to get into it [Music] there was a maintenance test explosion of a seconder different concept models or shuttle type of the aircraft or spacecraft around radar sensing surveillance aircraft so there are going to be prepared this is that this is a great video this is so you may remember about fruits I can must passed away on December the 21st may not be familiar with these may be but you're getting familiar with the image that you're going to see here very very soon this is from 1984 he's wearing a backpack man and it reviewed easly their special calendar and you're going to see an image of him here in just a second these classic images here it is right here [Music] they're juniors just remember this is one of the other is after golf a lot of them were seized his house would be in society people in its thousand yards and shot each other images [Music] and this side are not going around the way and every year our [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I was incorrect that you have to pay extra as long as you have paid admission you're allowed to go through this without paying an additional fee [Music] I think what I was thinking of was they were talking about guided tours [Music] [Music] in there this is a full-size scale model of the Scaled Composites spaceship-1 I think the original one is in the Museum of the National Air and Space Museum [Music] reservation you see I'm a virgin there's an Italian immersion with electricity it is made by negative you know baking it but yes occasionally but let's see I believe it's a half scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope [Music] [Music] there's a separate stairway there for exiting [Music] that's where the mix-up came in that's the cargo compartment or the bay which is just open with normal admission but if you want to take the crew compartment it's by tour only that was the trick [Music] [Music] so you can play with this for a while if you want to see a 3d views the inside of the crew compartment [Music] [Music] nice display of estie's model rockets and similar things [Music] model missiles Aerobie century black widow booster vision men Minnie gear cam [Music] various rocket engines telemetry units [Music] [Music] and as previously mentioned this is basically open-air but it does have the roof over it so we start off with a partially covered up b-17 it's got some protection for the weather in here but it is the b-17 Flying Fortress this is an F model [Music] up here we have one of the Conchords we'll take a look at that later I believe we can walk through it [Music] so this is the b-29 Superfortress [Music] [Music] and over across the way is the Boeing 247 D which had a similar design in many ways to the b-17 but was intended as a commercial transport for passengers [Music] a very modern airplane for its time but it's still stuck with some sort of antiquated or not fully thought through ideas one of which was having a center wing essentially you can see how tall the fuselage is and where the wing is and so right in the middle of the passenger cabin was this huge obstruction going through the center of the wing that people had to climb up and over and there wasn't enough room above the wing to stand up so you'd have to hunch and I would make the whole thing very awkward also not much good for cargo if you decided to carry cargo in it contrast that with the dc-3 which had a taller design in the wing structure was underneath the cabin floor so it did not obstruct cargo or passenger access [Music] and this is the Boeing WB 47 II strategies [Music] [Music] I'm sorry this is actually a DC - not a DC 3 very similar design but a little bit smaller the wings a little bit shorter and the fuselage is narrower than the DC 3 otherwise a very similar airplane [Music] and here we have one of the seven eight seven Dreamliner's I think the fellow on the other side said this is one of the three first ones built possibly the first one to fly let's go over and take a look [Music] [Music] yeah this aircraft was the third Dreamliner off the production line that served as a test aircraft and made its first flight in 2010 and I somehow still have not managed to get on a flight with a 787 [Music] you may just have to fly to wherever they're going to and fly back on one [Music] [Music] [Music] but she was just saying that they're accusing they have problems with this one okay wait yeah [Music] and this display just points out how many different places around the world that furnished parts for the 787 a lot of parts from Japan the wings fixed trailing edge the wing tips are from South Korea the flap support fairings the cells are out of the US tail fins by Boeing aft fuselage by Boeing horizontal stabilizer out of Italy with the rudders out of China aft fuselage out of South Korea the passenger door is made in France main landing gear not mmm wheel well assembly by Kawasaki in Japan the main fuselage sections are by Boeing center fuselage out of Italy a lot of parts made japan cargo doors out of suite and wing and body fairings out of canada displays pointing out the window sizes of some other aircraft [Music] [Music] and then of course the aft galley my understanding is most of these have some sort of a hidden place for the crew to duck away often upstairs sometimes through a hidden panel in the galley I have no idea how it's done on this plane [Music] this is a seven 7:37 down here fairly early one it doesn't have the larger engines hanging down below [Music] this is actually according to the brochure this is the prototype of the 737 [Music] [Music] [Music] this particular is the prototype and the first one built which is essentially the same thing but sometimes they play games at that terminology in relation to test artifacts that are designed to be torn apart and first ones to fly and so on and they're not always in the same order so it's nice to clarify that terminology I think this is the same one I saw here when I was at this museum several years ago when it was parked out in the parking lot on the other side of the main museum [Music] [Music] not sure what they have going on here [Music] [Music] looks like they might have had a kids play area in here that they've dismantled well let's take a look at this guy over here this is an Antonov an-2 colt and there's a Grumman f-14 Tomcat and a grumman ea-6b Prowler and a Grumman a-6 intruder and a mcdonnell-douglas AVH sea harrier this is a Douglas a4f Skyhawk [Music] and down here with its wings folded [Music] is a grumman f9f eight cougar [Music] this is the tail end of the Boeing 727 used to love flying on these but I don't know if there's any still flying if there are there may be a few and special service or test applications maybe a couple of cargo airlines still operating them there's the thrust reverser on this engine [Music] and this 747 by the way is the prototype number one I wonder if this is the same one that I went to see and st. Louis when I was a kid we were there very briefly just a couple of years in between living in Japan and living in Europe and my mother who was always a big fan of large airplanes took me in to st. Louis Lambert field to see the visit of the 747 and it was supposed to be the first one but I don't know if it really was certainly a very early one seems to me it was painted up about like this but whether it was the prototype or not that's another matter yeah I believe that it had full seating and everything inside of it which is not something you'd usually expect to see on a prototype [Music] [Music] one of the cool things about the 727 is that its wings were designed differently from most Boeing commercial aircraft jet aircraft that is in that they had extra flight surfaces to allow it to operate out of shorter fields than most of the other ones so they had the extra slats along the front of the wings that most of the other ones did not have you can really see everything deployed here [Music] while we're walking around here they've got a FedEx display [Music] the 727 aircraft previously used by FedEx had to lower cargo compartments or bellies one forward and one after the wing due to the small size of the compartment doors the bellies are primarily used for bulk loading of packages documents in small Freight their location on the lower part of the aircraft allowed for easy acceptance of late arriving packages and for offloading quickly at intermediate intermediate or final destinations in addition the packages to be separated from the remaining load if needed using the bellies allow the fedex to maximize all available cargo space and ensure a cost-efficient flight [Music] all right back to the 747 here [Music] one thing to note about the Museum of Flight mmm-hmm is that it's not a public museum like the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum or the museum National Museum of the United States Air Force or some other ones this is a private museum and unlike many of the others it does charge admission I already mentioned that going in but it is a distinction to make [Music] one of the docents mentioned that for a normal-size family of four you'd be spending a hundred dollars to come here although I think that presumes the kids are old enough to not get kids rates so this plane does not have all the trappings and interior panels and of course when this was made they still use control cables for everything so you know the control cables are visible up there wiring ducting insulation panels and of course on the 747 this is the main passenger deck and the pilots were up in the bubble above so you can see all these cables converging from the back of the airplane and then you've got these pulleys right here where everything turned a corner and went upstairs into the cockpit very good thinking some of these bellcranks appear apparently associated with the petals and the avionics Bay is visible down there [Music] and this being experimental aircraft as previously pointed out it never really carried passengers other than flight crews and technicians engineers test equipment [Music] [Music] [Music] and water tanks so they could shift the ballast around simulate different loadings and centers of gravity of course this being an early 747 it's not nearly as long as many of the later production models which were stretched out considerably longer than this still a very long airplane and this one was apparently used for testing the capabilities of the aircraft as a refueling aircraft [Music] the trailing static cone mechanism which is used to measure static air pressure and true airspeed while in flight [Music] [Music] I'm wondering if additional pillars on this thing can be removed it looks like they've got a left and a right section that they apparently can swing the airplanes through one way or another to get them in and out of here I wouldn't be surprised if they put the landing gear up on carts that can be swung around in different directions to finesse the mount through the openings this is the electrical and electronics compartment Orion eBay of a 727 located below the main cabin floor and behind the nose wheel or the nose wheel gear well it houses the major electrical components that control fire detection navigation cabin pressure and numerous other systems on the aircraft [Music] [Music] pants go through the 7:27 we're going to ah I see I see [Music] the bicycle mother [Music] more of the dc2 [Music] [Music] [Applause] the presidential Thrones back here wish they were all this big [Music] we travel this aft galley served the staff and members of the press corps this particular aircraft is really known as Sam 970 of course they're not really called Air Force one unless they're carrying the president at the moment this particular aircraft was used on Eisenhower's trip to Europe August in September 1959 Eisenhower's trip to the east December 1959 and that doesn't mean the East Coast Eisenhower's trip to South America in 1960 Khrushchev's US tour and 59 Kennedy's trip to Key West 61 Kennedy's trip to Vienna in 61 LBJ's flight to Dallas in 63 Kissinger's Paris trips in 1970 and 71 Nixon's trip to China in 72 [Music] this aircraft had fold-down bunks [Music] I think you'd have to sleep with your knees a little bit that's pretty short [Music] [Music] first there would have been a solid wall here but they've got Plexiglas wall put it now when as far as I got [Music] [Music] and they even bigger presidential commode back here [Music] and the front galley that was used for all the important people communication the center some safes secret codes etc front crew lavatory and of course the cockpit flight engineer navigator and the two pilots looks like they might only be letting the people through the Concord a few at a time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] really small passenger windows and a low ceiling like and [Music] [Music] all right leaving the pavilion going back through the space gallery [Music] we've seen pretty much everything at this point they still have what they call the tower which is really just an overlook onto the runway here at Boeing Field pay a quick visit to that [Applause] and we're quickly taking a run up to the tower at Boeing Field which has some exhibits [Music] and a slow elevator [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] such an efficient [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now we're gonna go in and see an aircraft movie or film at the WM Allen theatre [Music] and it did start raining all right well it was a good visit at the Boeing Museum of Flight really a popular place today on Saturday look like the parking lot was basically full and I bet they were using the overflow parking as well there are a couple of more aircraft here stuck away in corners that's a Fiat g91 pan and a mig-17 just out here in the corner well even though the weather is crappy and you know I always thought Seattle was a beautiful area and in many ways I wouldn't mind living in an area like this but it's the weather that deters me there's too much weather like this turn right at the traffic light in two miles turn right on course in Avenue South you

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Keywords: Seattle, Boeing Field, Boeing, Museum of Flight, Douglas Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman, Air Force One, SR-71, Red Barn, 707, 747, 727, 737, 787, Fed Ex, warbirds

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Length: 132min 21sec (7941 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 30 2018