Michael F 5G

The Air and Space Museum

“Can we go in now,” I pleaded with my mom and dad.  I was outside the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. with my parents, and three sisters.  “Yeah, sure,” my mom replied.  I raced in through the huge glass doors with my sisters and we waited just inside the door for my mom and dad.  “Can we go to the Wright Brother’s exhibit first,” I begged.  “Of course, my dad answered. But first I have to buy tickets for the IMAX movie.”  So my sisters, mom and I marched quickly upstairs to the exhibit.  “Look at this plane,” my sister Molly gasped.  A big plane just like the old-fashioned one that the Wright Brothers flew was hanging from the ceiling.  I always thought airplanes were perfectly safe, but this plane changed the way I thought of that.  A picture on the wall showed a plane identical to the one hanging high above our heads.  The people flying on it weren’t even wearing seatbelts!  Luckily, I would never have to fly in one of those old, rickety planes.  A small golden plaque underneath the old biplane reminded me that the Wright Brothers first flew the plane in 1904, so I probably don’t have anything to worry about.  It’s hard to imagine that planes have come so far since that stiff-looking bi-plane.

“I got the tickets,” my dad said almost out of breath as he raced behind us.   Without hesitation,  my family and I paraded downstairs and got in line outside the IMAX movie theater.  After a couple of minutes we got into the theater and sat down in one of the middle rows.  After a short wait with lots of excited talking from Daisy and Caroline, the movie started.  The movie was called “Legends of Flight,” and it was about new, more advanced and safer planes that the company Airbus, a French airplane company, was building.  The 3-D was amazing, and you could see how the new airplane was being built, inside and out.  You could even see the blueprints and birds that the airplanes were modeled after.  It was the best IMAX movie ever! 

Now that I could see how they build modern planes they seem perfectly safe to me. I couldn’t imagine the next time my family and I travel and when we head out to our plane it looks the Wright Brother’s bi-plane.  I am grateful to the latest advancements and development in air travel.