The Canadian Museum of Flight experience

Hello there. Yesterday, I went for a visit to the Canadian Museum of Flights. What's in there? Well, what do you think? There are planes, from WW1 to WW2 to the Korean war. You got big planes, you got tiny planes, you got planes with propeller and you got planes with jet engine. You also got fighter jet from WW2 and bomber planes. My favorite Handley Page HP.52 Hampden which was used during the World War 2 as a bomber. It looks cool, the cockpit seems large enough to fit 4 people. I don't know how much people it can fit because we're not allowed in but it seems big enough for 4 people. Anyway, it features 2 machine gun spots to fire from and it is a twin engines plane meaning it has two engines. Both are propeller engines. It's my favorite plane because of the look. That's it. The plane looks cool, powerful and very menacing. Great plane, 10/10.

The plane
The entrance of the museum is also the gift shop. The first thing you see when you walk in is the counter and the souvenirs. Another is the amount of books about planes. There are hundred of books about planes stacked next to each other on shelves. Mostly books about planes, there are also books about astronauts and books about the World Wars but mostly books about planes. And they're cheap too. Less than 2 dollars and you get to keep the book until the end of time. Or how long you're going to live anyway. There are two sections, one outdoor and one in a hangar. The Handley was outdoor, which is good because that thing is massive and it probably take up a lot of spaces indoor. There was also jet and other planes and engine outside too like the Pratt and Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior which looks like it can go really fast. There was also another shack outside that store all the engines that was ever used since the first World War. Then you walk into the hangar. 

Inside the hangar, there are planes everywhere. On the ground, hanging on the ceiling, even part just part of the plane. There are TV screens to tell story about fighters who fought battles up in the sky during wars and there are statues of the pilots who would have fly the planes. There are helicopters and there are planes. Lots of them. Mini plane figures and posters to commemorate some of the important battles of history. There was also a small glass tank with a tiny model of what seems to be a field with planes flying over it. Seem to be a training field for pilots. Then, that was the end of the tour. I had a lot of fun looking at planes and planes' engines and seeing how cool it was for a pilot to fly a plane into battles. It was a great visit, I hope I can go to more museum just like this one. That would be a 10/10 experience.

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