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Day 1 (7/11 Thurs)

Seattle to Tacoma  34 miles .75 hours

 LeMay / Americas Car Museum  (1 day)

Day 2 (7/12)

Tacoma to Portland . 142 miles 2.25 hours

 Oregon Museum of Science/USS Blueback attack sub

Portland to Multnomah Falls Lodge/Columbia River Gorge 30 miles. 35 minutes.

Day 3 (7/13)

 

Multnomah Falls to McMinnville  67 miles 1.5 hours

            Evergreen Museum

Day 4 (7/14)

McMinnville to Tillamook 67 miles  1.5 hours

             Tillamook Air Museum

 Tillamook to Newport  68 miles 1.5 hours

            Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum

 

Day 5 (7/15)

Newport to Crater Lake 222 miles 4 hours

Crate Lake to Lava River Caves Park in Bend OR 80 miles 1.5 hours

Day 6 (7/16)

Lava River Cave to Garden Valley  352 miles 6.75 hours

Day 7 (7/17)

Garden Valley: White water rafting: “The Canyon”  www.idahowhitewaterunltd.com

Day 8 (7/18)

Garden Valley to Arco 234 miles 4.5 hours

            Nuclear power plant tour (EBR-1)

Day 9 (7/19)

Arco to Wallace 403 miles, 7 hours

    Oasis Museum

Day 10 (7/20)

Wallace to Glacier National Park / St Mary, MT 245 miles 5 hours

Day 11 (7/21)

St. Mary to Dillon MT  385 miles 6 hours

            Bannack Ghost Town

Day 12 (7/22 Monday)

Dillon to Lewis and Clark Caverns.  70 miles 1.25 hours

Day 13 (7/23 Tues.)

L&C caverns to Billings, MT 190 miles 3 hours

            Go to work.

Boeings manufacturing facility tour

I toured the lines where they build the 747, 777, and assemble the 787.  The 787 gets shipped here in parts in the modified 747 Dream lifter then assembled in 3 days.  The 777's are built on a moving assembly line that moves at 2 inches a minute.  No pictures were allowed in the assembly building.
The building is the largest building on earth by volume.  Approximately 1/3 of a mile by 3/4 mile.  Each of the 5 doors is 100 yards long. Pretty impressive building and airplanes.

 

 

 

 The Dream Lifter for moving 787 parts around the country. It is a modified 747.  It can carry either the fuselage or the wings and tail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 777 doing taxi and brake tests followed by flight tests.

 

 777 engine.  It is bigger diameter the a 737 fuselage and has more horse power then all the engines in the Titanic did.

 Carbon fiber cut away of the 787

 

 Planes lined up for delivery

 

The restoration work area for the Museum of flight

 

Boeings super sonic plane mock up.  Plane got cancelled, but the mock up had a tilt nose movable wings. 

Glider being restored

 

 

 

 Comets cockpit

 Tilt nose of the super sonic plane

 

 

 

 

 

Inside of the Comet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum of flight pictures

The first fighter plane

 

 

 

 

 Space shuttle trainer used to train astronauts

 Shuttle bay

 

 Concorde

 Airforce 1

 Inside of the Concorde.  Not any more comfortable than a normal jet, but at least you didn't suffer as long!

 

 Concorde cockpit

 The first 737

 

 

Inside Airforce 1

 The first 747