I think I'd rather be sailing!
18 August 2011 | Annapolis area
Marlene
A visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum had us looking with amazement at the displays ranging from rockets to experimental flying machines and everything in-between. The museum is housed in a huge aviation hangar. I mean enormous, because there are masses of planes hanging from the ceiling, like a Boeing with a Concorde parked underneath. But it was not the Space Shuttle Enterprise or the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird which only captivated my interest. The cute and little ultralights like the one pictured above which was used to lead flocks of Canada Geese to new migration routes made me marvel at all the things that can fly!
Pilots averaged about 31 mph when leading the birds but flew as fast as 70 mph and as high as 4,000 feet above the ground in this. Just imagine.
"Fly Away Home" a movie you must watch tells the story.