Showing posts with label Hampton VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hampton VA. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton VA

The Virginia Air and Space Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitor’s center for NASA's Langley Research Center. The museum's permanent collection is housed in a three-story glass atrium accessible from two exhibit floors with an additional catwalk level available for viewing suspended aircraft from above. Volunteers maintain an amateur radio exhibit displaying modern and historic radio equipment. The exhibit also participates in the Space Amateur Radio Experiment where visitors can periodically talk to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.




They have a full passenger jet you can play in. The kids practiced take offs and landings for hours!




The flight simulator! Robbie couldn’t wait to get in here. You get to fly a fighter jet on a mission. The simulator can climb, roll and do loops... Yes loops! We (aka Maverick and Goose, you have to have code names!) started our mission to destroy the enemy air and ground targets. We fought the enemy and won, but not after a couple of tricky inverted air maneuvers!







Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton VA

We visited the Virginia Air & Space Center today. It was Air Force week and the admissions were free! The kids got to try out some Air Force gear and flight suits, even mom got into it!



The bed of nails, first time they ever laid still. :)


The Air Force was here showing off there equipment.