The Boeing Tour

Last week, we went to Vancouver. On the way, we stopped at Everett to go on the Boeing Tour and the Future of Flight Museum. The museum had booths where you could design your own commercial jet plane. Later, you could print out your design and/or have it on a T-shirt or a poster. The museum had a jet's cockpit that you can get into. I had a lot of fun pretending that I was a jet pilot.
The Boeing tour was interesting. We saw three movies and then journeyed to the Boeing plant by tour bus. On the way there, we saw some aircraft that was going to go to Singapore Airlines. I think this was an amazing coincidence. At the Boeing plant, there were a few huge doors (top left). The guide said they were the size of a football field without the end zones. The Boeing plant was big too. The Guinness Book of World Records says it is the LARGEST building by volume. The plant is about as big as 91 basketball courts put together. When we got off the bus, we went down some steps to a maintenance corridor. It crossed the whole plant. Fortunately, we didn't have to walk that far. We took an elevator to the fourth floor. There we saw about six 777's being made. That was the tour. It was a little disappointing, but still it was nice to go there.