Awake 7:25am Temp 38 Cloudy Overnight @ Midland, TX
Attend 8:00am mass @ St. Ann's parlor in Midland.
Casual morning. Then @ 1:00pm, we drive to the Midland airport & spend 3.5
hrs touring the Commemorative Air Force Flying Museum. The most exciting
thing for me to see was the only flying B-29 in existence today. It's in
the BIG hangar having some heavy maintenance performed, mostly by
volunteers...they hope to have it flying in July in time for the annual
Oshkosh air show in Wisconsin in August. One room in another building was
dedicated to what they call: Nose Art. The largest collection from
fuselages of world war II aircraft ever as they were being scrapped after
the war...these were amazing to see in person.
Other rooms had collections of authentic WW II artifacts & memorabilia:
Uniforms, armament, photographs, weapons & equipment. Huge exhibits detail
the story of WW II airpower...from the rise of German & Japanese
militarism before WW II to the introduction of the atomic age & little boy
+ big man. This museum is well done & for sure, a constant reminder of how
terrible war can be. Back to the bus & 5:15pm.
7:30 Dinner: Brown rice, stir fry veggies & fresh salad.
Evening time: Reading
High temp today=63 Lights out: 11:05pm
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