Woo-Hoo! A job, and lots of pictures at the Museum of Flight
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Hi all,
I just figured I'd post this here, since I know some of you will be interested-
I just found out that I've been hired to work at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, starting next week, and continuing at least through this summer. It's a part-time gig working the front desk, but hey... it's a job at the Museum of Flight! And after being unemployed since I graduated last August, this comes as a huge blessing and relief!
This also means I'll likely be around when several different aircraft like the Collings Foundation and EAA's B-17s come to visit, as well as have daily access to the museum's collection. So I'm more than a little bit excited!
I spent almost 5 hours there yesterday before my interview, and took around 700 photos- this is a "small" selection of them:
Gate Guardians:
F-14
MiG-17
MiG-17
B-47, and the empty area where their B-17F used to sit... (they moved it into storage for the spring)
B-29
Their newest addition, a YO-3A
The Great Gallery
P-12
SUU-11 on their F-4
M60 on the UH-1
SR-71 Cockpit View
F-18 Mock-up Cockpit View
Control Yoke "Horn Buttons"
Norden Bombsight
Spitfire LF Mk. IX
P-40N
Ki-43-III Replica
FG-1D
P-47D
P-51D
P-38L
Adversaries
Yak-3
JN-4
D. VII
Spad
Albatros and Dr. 1
Dr. 1
Se5a
Caproni monoplane
Noses
Concorde
The first 747 built
Constellation
While I was there, I got to see a 787 land after a test flight (the fleet had been grounded due to issues with the batteries, and a couple test aircraft were just recently cleared to fly again)
Nearby on Boeing Field, there were a few other Boeing products- in the foreground is a new P-8 Poseidon, and furthest back is a Turkish 737AEW&C. I'm not sure what the middle two are.
737 AEW&C
P-8
A-4
MiG-15 and Canadair Sabre
DC-3
MiG-21
I accidentally tripped the shutter while just holding the camera, and caught this... oops!
747 on approach to SeaTac airport, which is only a few miles away.
Anyway, I'll be up there several days a week starting next Tuesday, so if you guys have any a/c in particular that you'd like to see more of, I'll do what I can to get some photos!
*edit: I updated the photos so they weren't so huge, to make it easier on those with limited bandwidth, and to make things load a little faster. If you want to view the full-res images, here's the link to the photobucket album:
http://s44.photobucket.com/user/Jaypack44/library/Museum%20of%20Flight%204-9-13
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Yes,Yes,Yes, That's great
You have access to everything, and they pay you as well.
I'm really happy for you.
Damn it, its very well deserved
So you start next week. If it wasn't so far I would hop in my Wrangler,
throw a B4 bag in the back and make the trip,
Wonderful photos ....700 Yikes!!! Nervous were you?
High Five Jaypack
Christopher
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thx m8 for posting this mass of great pictures - some more wallpapers for me
anything about ww2 is wecome, the PTO planes, japanese and US, are the most interesting for me -
Congatulations Jaypack. Take it from someone with years of senior management experience in local government, university and national museums you are sitting in the most important seat in the house. It doesn't matter how well a collection is curated, conserved and displayed, or how well qualified its academic staff are, for the public it is that first point of contact, the man or woman at the reception desk, that makes or breaks a visit.
Enjoy.
Wingco.
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Congrats Josh, well deserved, and great captures there. What camera do you use and lenses?
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Thanks guys! I'm definitely looking forward to everything that comes with this job... Duggy, I'll see what I can do about the keys It'll definitely be an awesome experience getting to be around so many people who are as interested in aviation as I am... that's been a major rarity in my life, except for the IL-2 and modeling communities!
Merv, I use my girlfriend's Nikon D3100, with the standard 18-55 and 55-200mm lenses. It's pretty good for everything I've used it for so far, though at some point I'd like to get a nice-ish Canon (something like a t3i, or so) and a few lenses. I've been dabbling with photography for the last couple years, and it's definitely become a favorite hobby of mine! I've done photography for a couple events, too, and My girlfriend and I are scheduled to do a friend's wedding next January (though if things fall into place with this job, she could be my wife by then!). One of my dream jobs would be to do air-to-air photography for a museum or something, but I'd guess that dream's pretty far off...
Ps- in other exciting news, I'll be going to visit the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field, WA for the first time tomorrow, so expect quite a few photos from that trip, too!
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