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A Real Flight Simulator Flight for Lukey

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While we were at the US Air Force Museum, Lukey had a chance to try flying in an F-22 flight simulator.   This was on our second day at the museum.  Our first day was a rather short visit walking the grounds outside.  We came back again on a day that was forecast to be rainy so we could avoid being caught in the rain doing something outdoors so we spent the entire day at this immense museum.  And, we did get some loud thunderstorms and heavy rain mid-afternoon as forecast so we made the right decision to spend the day indoors at the museum. During our day-long visit, Lukey got to step into a fighter simulator.  This is a simulator that moves to whatever orientation you fly the plane...  it pitches up and down and can roll 360°...  if you spin all the way around to flying inverted, then your cockpit spins all the way around to inverted...  if you bank hard right, then the cockpit banks to a hard right...  whatever you input on the flight ...

Planning a Trip to Dayton - Who Wants To Join Us?

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Our next scheduled trip is to the lake house this summer and we need to start gearing up for that as soon as the weather allows us. We might also try to squeeze in a short weekend trip to someplace outside of Vermont to do some much needed shopping but that will be more of a spur of the moment thing. We are, however, planning to make a quick trip out to Dayton in the coming months. This next Dayton trip is finally on our schedule and we are asking around to see if anyone might want to join us. National Museum of the US Air Force We're way overdue for a trip to the Dayton area and the National Museum of the US Air Force. Since we were there last, I've been honored on the "Wall of Honor" and missed an official dedication ceremony due to my poor health so we'd really like to see this new "Wall of Honor".  Although we've been wanting to visit Dayton again for years, this particular trip was put on hold over and over due to other commitments using...