On the Road Again/Frontiers of Flight

Once Kirk finished his finals we packed up and headed back out for another summer of selling home security! After some change up and switching we ended up with the company Point! First it was Elite, then Protection 1, now Point! I was busy working til Friday afternoon then packed and cleaned the house! First we met up with Kirk's long time friend Andrew and his new fiance! They drove down from Utah so we had breakfast with them and met her at Ihop! It was good for him and Kirk to catch up!

Then we hit the road! We drove 11 hours to Odessa, Texas! We got a hotel room for the night...although I didnt get enough sleep! Im too much of a worrier! They were random people walking around smoking all night, kids running around, some redneck woman yelling at some man then driving away and the first room we got smelled like smoke! We switched rooms and had to squeeze onto a full sized bed! haha Anyways we woke up and left right away, stopped and got some breakfast food at Walmart then hit the road again! 

We drove 7 hours to Dallas and took a break at a Frontiers of Flight Museum! It had aspects of WW2 which Kirk loved!

Each booth of the warehouse had different decades of flight times...from the beginnings til recent times! They had some cool one of a kind things! Everyone kept asking "is this your first time?" and a few of the old men volunteers were so excited to show us around and tell us everything they knew! One of them knew this man that flew 97 missions in WW2 with the Tuskegee airmen...they had a display set up for him because he had just passed away on Tuesday morning. We learned a lot! 

The Flying Pancake was just a model and was never actually flown in battle...they built 1 or 2 of them just to do it! The military was looking for a plane that could take off and land in small distances so the company Vought built this! It could take off in 50 feet and land in 150 which was pretty impressive at the time! They made it just to show they could...they were hoping to fit many of these on one ship but unfortunately the design never made it past this stage! This is the one and only and is on loan to the Flight of Frontiers exhibit for 10 years!   

 The actual Apollo 7 that went into space! We got to touch the underneath that burned up during its entry into the Earth's atmosphere! It was all burned up! It was tiny inside and 4 men spent 11 days in space! It was pretty cool!