Had a bit of business at Seattle MoF today....this was my view when I parked my car.

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TK_TK_@reddit

One of my favorite places! My oldest had her birthday party in that hangar one year :)

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RadosAvocados@reddit

Neat short story on IG about how they got the Concorde.

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

I'd heard about the "flights to nowhere" but did not know this about MoF's Concord! So cool!

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iheartgme@reddit

Wow didn’t know this was there in an open-sided hangar

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Dugiduif@reddit

Yup. Lots of other cool stuff in there as well like the first 747

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Yes. It’s part of the museum of flight. The main building’s across the street and you take a bridge thing over the road to get to this building. This parking lot isn’t part of the museum and the building is fenced off, but you can still see inside this part if you don’t want to pay to get in. There’s a B-52 outside to the left outside of the museum as well that you can walk around. Highly recommend going through the rest of the museum though.

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

As it was just before opening time for the main museum, I walked around the B-52 and sat and just...looked at it for a while. I am smitten with these historic planes!

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iheartgme@reddit

Thank you and other respondents!

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

Yes. This photo is a tiny part of the whole museum!

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Ok_Reflection_2711@reddit

The coolest thing there is the 707 Air Force One. The Concorde's cockpit is cool but the rest of the plane is just a really cramped airliner.

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

I agree the 707 AF1 is the coolest plane to walk through (at no extra charge!) Agree the Concorde, while awesome looking, is comically cramped on the inside. I guess the real attraction of it was flying across the Atlantic in 3.5 hours and not a spacious interior. It feels like a cramped business jet, which in a way it was.

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Dugiduif@reddit

Very cramped. I was surprised to see how skinny the fuselage really is on it.

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

Used to just be an open area! They added the roof a few years ago and the "Airpark" as it's known has become a spectacular part of the overall museum (which is much larger!) Best part is that many of the big planes in there can be walked through without any extra cost.

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egguw@reddit

overflow parking lot?

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

Employee parking. No, I'm (sadly) not an employee!

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smarmageddon@reddit (OP)

At first I was like, why put all those disparate planes so close together in there? I know there's space considerations, but now I kinda love it since there are so many "odd bed-fellows" in there. The tiny B-47 engines right near the house-sized 787 turbo-fans is wild. That B-17 in the corner of my pic compared to the Concorde. It's neat being able to se old and new tech together and see how far airplanes have evolved in such a vivid way.

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Objective-Koala-4873@reddit

They got some really cool pieces in there