Its a bit tough to shoot through plexiglas, so I did the best I could to eliminate the reflections which come with this type of shot.....

The view aft..........hey look, everything is made of wood !




The view fwd.........the stairs naturally are the way to the flight deck..........


     

Wow! Great pics!

Flying Trucker wrote on Sep 14^th, 2010 at 1:17pm:

I must tell you Doug, the extra costs on certain displays, put me off and I decided against paying any more than I was already for the general admission($20), although Wendy did take the time and went and spent the time for the 3D I-Max presentation about the Hubble.....after hearing her enthusiasm, I think I should have also gone in too. Cockpit entrance fee (another $20) effectively doubled the basic museum admission, and for a measly $30 on top of that, they would have let me sit in the front seat. I just felt that $70 is bit too much for me to justify. They also had an entrance fee on a B-17.....snack bar fees were the normal inflated prices, and along with the "gift" shop on site, it could have easily become a bank breaker.....I'm so happy I rode the bike there to keep travel costs down a bit. What, with gas, ferry, motel, and food, the  three day weekend didn't come cheap..........but I had to do it anyway !  Especially since as mentioned, all it might take is one termite to start the process of demise..........

Flying Trucker wrote on Sep 15^th, 2010 at 4:55am:

Hard to say if they could make ends meet with only donations... and as far as I'm concerned, to enter the flight deck of the one and only Hercules would be worth at least $100!!
Maybe that's part of it, too... charging extra tends to weed out the riff-raff, who are not sufficiently awestruck and reverent.  You wouldn't want "Cletus and Britney 4 Eva" carved in a stringer somewhere...