Day Trip: Omaha
Feb. 19th, 2013 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23We took a day trip to Omaha and visited the Strategic Air and Space Museum in nearby Ashland.
The museum features most of the great airplanes of World War 2 and the Cold War- B1 bomber, B52, the SR71 Blackbird, the Corvair Hustler, the F86 Sabre, and the U2 spy plane.
The weekend we went was the Nebraska Robotics Expo (which gets a lot of funding and help from Lego. What can't Lego do?). It wasn't really that exciting of a spectator sport unless you or or your child was competing, although it was certainly cool to see.
There was plenty of history which prominently featured Air Command's most famous resident Curtis LeMay. LeMay was one of those bigger-than-life cold war figures, most known for the quote "bombing them to the stone age"..
Additionally, there was a very cool travelling exhibit called "Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow" which documented the years of 1945-1965 and the atomic threat.
That exhibit also featured art by Doug Waterfield with an atomic/nuclear theme. I thought it was very cool.
Check out his site here.
The museum features most of the great airplanes of World War 2 and the Cold War- B1 bomber, B52, the SR71 Blackbird, the Corvair Hustler, the F86 Sabre, and the U2 spy plane.
The weekend we went was the Nebraska Robotics Expo (which gets a lot of funding and help from Lego. What can't Lego do?). It wasn't really that exciting of a spectator sport unless you or or your child was competing, although it was certainly cool to see.
There was plenty of history which prominently featured Air Command's most famous resident Curtis LeMay. LeMay was one of those bigger-than-life cold war figures, most known for the quote "bombing them to the stone age"..
Additionally, there was a very cool travelling exhibit called "Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow" which documented the years of 1945-1965 and the atomic threat.
That exhibit also featured art by Doug Waterfield with an atomic/nuclear theme. I thought it was very cool.
Check out his site here.
