Kilted at the Hiller Aviation Museum

**Panache** · 3rd March 08, 12:35 PM

Kilted at the Hiller Aviation Museum

(Thread dedicated to XMTS own cessna152towser)

For the last couple of years that I and lovely Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess have been going to our Bay Area Kilt Nights we have passed by the Hiller Aviation Museum http://www.hiller.org/ that is located next to Belmont (only a couple of miles from the DCB). We thought it would make for a fun day to go to the museum and then head on over to join our friends at the Devil’s Canyon Brewery .

Here are a few pictures from our visit:

The front section of a 1970 Boeing 747-136 (originally a British Airways plane)

Next to one of the engines

Visitors can sit in the cockpit

A lot of controls and instruments!

More to come

**Panache** · 3rd March 08, 12:43 PM

One of two Condor prototype robot spy planes (never put into production)

The Aviator

Blue Angel cockpit

Random shots

More to come

**bikeolounger** · 3rd March 08, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

How many of you remember the BD-5J? The engine was about the size of a five-gallon bucket, and almost as powerful. The propeller version was safer. Jim Bede supposedly offered a BD-10 a few years later, but I've never seen one.

**davedove** · 4th March 08, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by Panache

Highway to the Danger Zone

**Cynthia** · 3rd March 08, 12:43 PM

Awesome photos! My fave is the one of the kids in the cockpit! I bet they loved that

**Panache** · 3rd March 08, 12:50 PM

One of the many Hiller Helicopters on display

This machine was apparently in the movie "Agent Cody Banks"

One thing that bugs me about living in the 2000's is that as a child it seemed a sure thing that we would have jet packs. Yet I look around and there are none to be had!

WHERE ARE THE JET PACKS?

Right here!

There were many more wonderful displays and very fun (and informative) flight simulators. The whole family had a ball and I would highly recomend the museum as a worthwhile destination.

The Hiller Aviation Museum
601 Skyway Road
San Carlos, CA 94070

www.hiller.org

Cheers

Jamie

**Raphael** · 3rd March 08, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

One thing that bugs me about living in the 2000's is that as a child it seemed a sure thing that we would have jet packs. Yet I look around and there are none to be had!

WHERE ARE THE JET PACKS?

Right here!

You are not the only one!! I want my Jet Pack NOW!!!

**ccga3359** · 3rd March 08, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

One thing that bugs me about living in the 2000's is that as a child it seemed a sure thing that we would have jet packs. Yet I look around and there are none to be had!

WHERE ARE THE JET PACKS?

Originally Posted by Raphael

You are not the only one!! I want my Jet Pack NOW!!!

Gentlemen, please! Jetpacks, urban transport, MEN IN KILTS

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I think I spied a Link trainer in the background. How hundreds of thousand of airmen learned to fly in them still amazes me.