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Air Zoo
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The
Air Zoo is
different – a mixture of many classic planes, children rides, some air
simulators, and the space program outside of Kalamazoo, Michigan. With the exception of an SR-71, most of the
planes we’ve seen in other museums, though they do have a good collection of
World War II planes and trainers. They had the story of Guadalcanal and another
on the WASPs. I hadn’t realized that the women aviators only had a 3 year
history during the war. The simulators tossed the participants around quite a
bit, so we didn’t try them. The space sections was fairly meager, yet we spent
about 3 hours here because of their temporary exhibit, Popnology. This exhibit
shows how the vision of men (Jules Vern and other science fiction writers as
well as inventors) and popular culture (movies, books, TV and Art) have
influenced modern technology. For
example, the wrist radio of Dick Tracy or communicator of Star Trek have become
the cell phones of today. There was also a great section on fictional and real
robots, and how the movie industry has used technology to create the special
effects we see today. Then there was a section on 3D printing and its use in
making prosthetics. This temporary
exhibit made the museum.
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Curtiss P-40N painted for Libyan desert
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