W.A.S.P. Celebration at Bird Museum

We got up early and headed out to the Bird Museum to see the dedication to the WOMEN OF COURAGE... the W.A.S.P. ... Women Airforce Services Pilots. It was a beautiful day for it.
For those of you, who have never been there... you really should make a point to go..it is a
great place to take your guest, your children, and just for yourself... IT IS FREE.... and they do
have a nice little cafe there, with fair prices, and good food...

The field is filling up...

One of the first planes is coming in for a landing...

This field filled up fast.... we barely could get out when we got back to the car, the white one.

More coming in....

Another plane coming in for a landing.... (it started at 9 and we got there at 9:01am)

This plane (above the grey vehicles) came in a little too fast, and a little too soon, it barely made it on the runway...BUT

it bounced, and then the front landing snapped...

Not a good day for this pilot, hope he wasn't planning on flying home tonight.

They were able to move it with the 4 wheeler.... to move it off the field..

The airplanes circled while they cleared the runway...
beautiful background.....
QUEST AIRCRAFT...

Finally the planes started to land again..

One after another

All of them landing safely...

The first plane being secured so the visitors could view it... up close

Pledge Allegiance Sign with a Uncle Sam windmill

Inside the museum... it was so crowded, this was the closest I got to inside...

Wall paper in the women's bathroom.

Australian Crystal mirror in the women's bathroom.

The King in the middle of the crowd..

Before the ceremony

Bagpippers as the beginning...

Airplane flying over during the ceremony

The unveiling of the monument

Bugle player.... playing taps... (she really didn't play, it is recorded)

Bagpippers playing... with their dancers...

And here is Dawn (I didn't catch her last name) getting ready to tell us of how hard it was to beccome a pilot for the Air Force. But how much fun was for them after they got to join. How many (over 3,000) signed up, little over 1,000 making it.... only to have the government end their services with a 2 weeks notice... in 1944, before the war was over.

Marianne Love of Slight Detour with her mother Virginia, visiting with friends.

Some of the stones that are in the landscape at the W.A.S.P. Park as Pam Bird likes it to be called.

benchs donated by varies groups...

The monument

They came by car, trucks and motorcycles...

Those who worked on the Park...


Some of the people were getting photos taken..

As we were leaving, there were more coming in...