This morning we got up early to hear a talk by a former shuttle astronaut who is now working at Space X. It was a great presentation and we enjoyed hearing the talk and answering questions. It I was just getting out of college now, this is a company I would be interested in working at.
Today we went through the hangars full of vendors. It was like attending the boat show except since the focus was for airplanes and pilots we did not feel the pressure to look at everything. There were a lot of things that we were not interested in, which is very different from when we go to boat shows with the exception of the ski boats and ski boat paraphernalia. We skipped over hangar doors, riveting tools, information on flying in Russia, Dominican Republic and New Zealand, helicopters, aircraft instrumentation, flight schools, condos with hangars, alternators for airplanes, etc. we did stop to look at SPOT and GoPro cameras. We did stop by and say hi tonDan and Dave of Paraphenalia, who manufacture the "Softie", an emergency parachute for aerobatic pilots.
After we had gone through the 4 hangars worth of vendors, the rain started. It was time to catch a bus to the EAA museum while it rained outside. We got a chance to see Dick Rutan's Spaceship One as well as Voyager which he flew around the world non stop without refueling. Pretty amazing.
We returned to the main site and watched part of the afternoon air show, with included wing walking and an aerobatic helicopter.
Tomorrow will be our last day at the air show before heading back.
"I'm a basketball jones"....
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