Frontier Flight Observation
Entering the Frontier Flight Museum was an educational, historical experience dating back to the first airplane in 1903 to present day airplanes. It included the history of combat airplanes, commercial airplanes, corporate and private airplanes.
Walking into the main Richard W. Cree Exhibit Gallery, the room was divided into different labeled galleries with interesting exhibits to support each gallery. The first exhibit was the “Early Flyers” exhibit of a replica wooded hanger with the tools used to build the “Wright Flyer” in Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. There was a poster with information about the first women pilot’s including Harriet Quimby, a journalist turned pilot in 1911. Along the wall was a time chart of early …show more content…
This exhibit featured the Ryan PT-22 Recruit airplane that was part of the WWII exhibit that was a military training aircraft designed to train pilots. Inside the Golden Age exhibit, we learned about the innovation of engines and how the improvements allowed aviators to fly faster and with longer strides across the nation, over the Atlantic, and eventually around the globe. I learned about North Polar Exploration headed by aviator and explorer Admiral Richard E. Bird and the importance of aviation in this adventure. There was a life size polar outfit of Bird’s and a bust made in his honor on display.
The last exhibit I visited in this room was the “Balloons and Airships” exhibit that included a display of an actual Hot Air Balloon basket and a display case of the wreck of the Hindenburg LZ-12. This wreck was a national disaster that caused the public not to trust flying in an Airship and marked the end of Airship transportation.
There was so much more I saw and so much more I would like to go back to see but I will close with saying this was a surprising experience and I learned so much about history when all I thought I would see were different airplanes. It was a great
Walking into the main Richard W. Cree Exhibit Gallery, the room was divided into different labeled galleries with interesting exhibits to support each gallery. The first exhibit was the “Early Flyers” exhibit of a replica wooded hanger with the tools used to build the “Wright Flyer” in Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. There was a poster with information about the first women pilot’s including Harriet Quimby, a journalist turned pilot in 1911. Along the wall was a time chart of early …show more content…
This exhibit featured the Ryan PT-22 Recruit airplane that was part of the WWII exhibit that was a military training aircraft designed to train pilots. Inside the Golden Age exhibit, we learned about the innovation of engines and how the improvements allowed aviators to fly faster and with longer strides across the nation, over the Atlantic, and eventually around the globe. I learned about North Polar Exploration headed by aviator and explorer Admiral Richard E. Bird and the importance of aviation in this adventure. There was a life size polar outfit of Bird’s and a bust made in his honor on display.
The last exhibit I visited in this room was the “Balloons and Airships” exhibit that included a display of an actual Hot Air Balloon basket and a display case of the wreck of the Hindenburg LZ-12. This wreck was a national disaster that caused the public not to trust flying in an Airship and marked the end of Airship transportation.
There was so much more I saw and so much more I would like to go back to see but I will close with saying this was a surprising experience and I learned so much about history when all I thought I would see were different airplanes. It was a great