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[Jaypack44]

Hi all,

I just found out that I've been hired to work at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, starting next week, and continuing at least through this summer. It's a part-time gig working the front desk, but hey... it's a job at the Museum of Flight! And after being unemployed since I graduated last August, this comes as a huge blessing and relief!

This also means I'll likely be around when several different aircraft like the Collings Foundation and EAA's B-17s come to visit, as well as have daily access to the museum's collection. So I'm more than a little bit excited!

I spent almost 5 hours there yesterday before my interview, and took around 700 photos- this is a "small" selection of them:

Gate Guardians:


F-14


MiG-17


MiG-17


B-47, and the empty area where their B-17F used to sit... (they moved it into storage for the spring)


B-29


Their newest addition, a YO-3A








The Great Gallery


P-12






SUU-11 on their F-4


M60 on the UH-1


SR-71 Cockpit View


F-18 Mock-up Cockpit View


Control Yoke "Horn Buttons"


Norden Bombsight




Spitfire LF Mk. IX




P-40N








Ki-43-III Replica




FG-1D












P-47D




P-51D




P-38L


Adversaries




Yak-3


JN-4


D. VII


Spad


Albatros and Dr. 1


Dr. 1


Se5a


Caproni monoplane


Noses


Concorde


The first 747 built


Constellation


While I was there, I got to see a 787 land after a test flight (the fleet had been grounded due to issues with the batteries, and a couple test aircraft were just recently cleared to fly again)


Nearby on Boeing Field, there were a few other Boeing products- in the foreground is a new P-8 Poseidon, and furthest back is a Turkish 737AEW&C. I'm not sure what the middle two are.


737 AEW&C


P-8


A-4




MiG-15 and Canadair Sabre






DC-3


MiG-21


I accidentally tripped the shutter while just holding the camera, and caught this... oops!


747 on approach to SeaTac airport, which is only a few miles away.


Anyway, I'll be up there several days a week starting next Tuesday, so if you guys have any a/c in particular that you'd like to see more of, I'll do what I can to get some photos!

*edit: I updated the photos so they weren't so huge, to make it easier on those with limited bandwidth, and to make things load a little faster. If you want to view the full-res images, here's the link to the photobucket album:
http://s44.photobucket.com/user/Jaypack44/library/Museum%20of%20Flight%204-9-13

[S3231541]

Really great! I'm building a F-101 Voodoo, do they have one there? Thanks.

[max_thehitman]

Jaypack , at this moment you are the luckiest man on the planet!
Not only in getting a much needed job in these times of world economic crisis, but for a job
doing something in a place you have always dreamed of. Sorrounded by history and so many
of those airplanes you so often paint skins for!  I envy you man! I wish you the best of great times
there at the museum and make sure to take photographs every day. It is indeed a privilege and an
honor to work there.

[vpmedia]

Awesome, thanks for posting it!

[BravoFxTrt]

Yes Very cool Jaypack, and Congrats.

[PA_Jeronimo]

Hi Jaypack,

Nowadays it is difficult to have job and work in what one always dream is almost impossible.


Congratulations for the work and the workplace, and thanks for posting it.

[jeanba]

Dear sir

Please accept my deepest jealousy

[PlaneEater]

Hey Jaypack,

I may drop by with the wife and kiddo and say hi.  I'm about an hour's drive from there and we usually stop by to see the Collings Foundation birds.   

[benitomuso]

Wonderful pics!

[psychobobicus]

Congrats on the new gig! I visited the museum when I was 10 (23 years ago  ). I was lucky enough to be there when they were working out the engines on the B-17, and it sealed my love of aircraft forever. They've really expanded the museum!

[UberDemon]

Awesomeness.

[Yeager_1946]

Great Photos, Jaypack! 

I definitely need to visits the museum someday!