I know that for some of you out there this is old news but I thought I would post some of what a local newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, printed on Friday (Oct. 31).....

  "The Concorde, the supersonic jet that once represented the cutting edge in aviation, will soon become a museum piece in Seattle.
  Wendnesday afternoon (Nov. 5), the 203-ft. long Concorde will land at Boeing Field and taxi to the Museum of Flight, which will become its permanent home and a place for everyone to see the sleek aviation legend.
  The Concorde-curious can see the plane's exterior, up close, after it touches down at about 3 p.m.  After a period of prepatation for public view, it will be completely open so visitors to the museum can see the inside of its long, narrow cabin.....
  .....After the landing ceremonies are over next week, museum staffers will prepare it for permanent public display, set to begin Nov.28....."

  Currently the Museum of Flight is being expanded, which began eailer this year.  The existing section of the museum is still open to the public while the expansion is taking place.  The new portions of the mesuem are scheduled to be opened in Feburary of 2004.  (For those interested, I saw a shark mouth P-40, maybe an E, in one of the museum's storage buildings!)  Come on over and take a look!!

I've never made the trip up there.  Now that it's there, maybe I will.

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Yeah, thats probably a good reason not to make the trip.   

Anyway, the wierd thing is that I have lived in the Pacific Northwest for 18 years and have never made the trip to Seattle to see the museum.  Just seems odd that I've never gotten around to it.

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Yeah, I live in Eugene which is about 100 miles south of Portland.

It arrives in Seattle Tomorrow!?!

I wish I could be there

Maybe we should make it a SimV party in a year or two

BTW friends, you can visit the Museum's website here, http://www.museumofflight.org/

Well Im off the next two days so I'll be getting over to the Museum to get a real glimpse of this beauty.
Gosh it's so good to be in the northwest!

Well that's just it, heh, Im anxious for it to open up too as I didn't get to see the darn things when they were at the Champlin museum there in Mesa, heh, I went for 5yrs without a car, I finally got one and to celebrate I drove out to the museum only to find it closed down.
Heck I didn't even get to go into the Comemorative air Force museum next door to it cause it was on a sunday and it was colosed that day too
Hah! But I geuss fate has come around because another turn of events brought me up here and so........here I am where the planes wound up.
Yeah I assume there are many of our favorites in the collection, the is at least i know a P-51, & a spitfire, & a P-38. And im sure we are in for a treat in any case
Yep, we'll have to meet up & have coffee at Randy's or somthin, and shoot the breeze. 8) I dont live far, right now im in Newcastle, but by the end of the month or so I'll be living in Renton.