Museum of Retired Birds

Several weeks ago, I bought a Groupon to go and ride a WWII plane over the SuperBowl activities in Fort Worth. Well, today's post is about the Vintage Flying Museum that runs the plane rides. I was totally intrigued!

Here's a plane that I guess had something to do with the Navy at one time - very neat shape...

Here is an old ejector seat from a plane.....

This is what it says right next to the lever you pull to eject yourself from the plane - freaky!!!

This was my favorite plane in the whole museum - it flew in WWII, if I remember correctly.

This is the front of that plane - there's a seat for someone to ride in that chair right in the clear nose of the plane - and shoot guns! Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'riding shotgun', huh????

Here are the guns on the sides of the plane. The plane is all shiny and pretty from far away, but when you get closer, it's like a death machine!

Here's the bottom opened up - probably for dropping ammunition out of there......

In the gun's path......

Pretty intimidating with the grim reaper on the side.......

I thought this was cute - "The Pilot"

And on the other side......."Other Guy" - too funny!

She was a beauty!

And in their workshop area of the museum, I saw this piece of machinery with a prosthetic leg/foot on it! What in the world?!

And it's not just the women of the world that are texting constantly - check out these airplane mechanics.....

Checkin' his email and texting the ladies while he's up on a plane fixing it (and standing quite diva-like, if I do say so myself)!

This blue one was pretty and had the super old-fashioned seats where there's no top!

This is a close-up of the seat......

And I also liked this one because it's red and it had lots of character.