Feb 3 Thurs Day 17 clear, sunny, cool in the shade. Hi – 63 F
Today is our San Diego Air & Space Museum day. It is in Balboa Park. We are off around 10:30 to 11:00 and there is so much to see we leave just as it is closing at 4:30. We did go out for lunch at the Japanese Tea Pavilion. They had some free 4D movie shorts that were fun to watch, plus we both went on the simulator to land the Space Shuttle, a dead stick landing as it has no propulsion so you glide it in. You get 3 tries for $6.00, after I finished they needed 3 new space shuttles! After two crashes, Sheila did a good landing, but she had help and advice from the operator. They had a kids’ area with a nice slow prop plane simulator, like a video game, you controlled the movements with the stick. This one I got on the runway, or should I say in the runway, the final picture showed the plane on its side one wing pointing straight up & the other buried in the runway! Sheila did no better. She crashed 3 times trying to fly over the hills to the runway & when she finally made it, crashed just short of it once & then on it! I don’t think either of us will be applying for jobs as pilots anytime soon! There were lots of neat aircraft, (civilian & military), paintings & bios of people who have made records in &/or furthered the evolution of aviation. Sheila focused on female aviators and was pleasantly surprised to discover that in addition to Emelia Earkhart whom everyone knows, there are a substantial number. One woman, a ferry pilot in WWII, holds more records for distance & altitude flying than anyone—male or female! Another, at age 59 is still the leader of a top-rated aerobatic team performing regularly in air shows. I’ll post some of the pictures. We arrived home by 5 pm, went to the hot tub and then had supper before it was TV time.
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