The museum of flight in Seattle is one of the premier flight museums in the world. It houses a fantastic and growing collection of everything aeronautical from kitty hawk replicas to the Concorde. Everything about this museum is first class from the continuous movies in the theatre to the docents to the excellent cafeteria. If you've ever flown in an airplane you must come here to understand the dream of flight and also to understand Seattle's unique roll as the home of Boeing. Before they moved their corporate headquarters to Chicago, Boeing and Seattle were synonymous in many people's minds. Seattle is 'Jet City'. Our basketball team is the 'Supersonics'. The world's largest manufacturer of airplanes was the bedrock industry of the city and the entire western half of the state. When the corporate heads decided that investors' return was more important than the nine decades of partnership between this community and the company founded in 1916, many in the city and state felt like they had just learned they were being divorced. There was much gnashing of teeth and self questioning: "Was it something we did?", "Are we no longer attractive?" In the end, there was no turning back. Our partner's eyes were fixated on investors' bottom line. But at least we get to keep the museum! Admission is $11.
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