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The Museum of Flightโs annual Jet Blast Bashย festival on the flightline is Seattleโs closest seat to experience theย Blue Angelsโ thunderous takeoffs and landings for the Boeing Seafair Airshow that takes place August 3-4, 2024.ย Jet Blast Bash is also the Museumโs biggest and most popular outdoor family festival. Fans will enjoy live music by the dynamic dance cover bandsย Brickhouseย andย Mr. Pink, while DJs withย C89.5ย will fill the air with EDM. The festival also offers a diversity of food trucks, a beer garden, dozens of family activities and community partners including Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop, Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum, Puget Sound Navy Museum and U.S. Naval Undersea Museum.
Former Navy test pilot and four-timeย space shuttle astronaut Mike Baker will be the festivalโs guest speaker delivering several presentations inside the Museum.ย On special display will be a rare World War II PBY Catalina flying boat, plus the remarkable Casspir Projectโa South African Casspir military armored troop carrier covered with over 70 million colorful glass beads.
Jet Blast Bash activities are included with Museum admission (required).ย Detailed schedule is on theย Museum website, and airshow details and schedule areย online with Seafair.
Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, annually serving over 600,000 visitors. The Museum’s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today’s 787 Dreamliner. Attractions at the 23-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer, Air Force One, Concorde, Lockheed Blackbird and Apollo Moon rockets. In addition to the Seattle campus adjacent to King County International Airport, the Museum also has its 3-acre Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field in Everett (not currently open to the public).
With a foundation of aviation history, the Museum is also a hub of news and dialogue with leaders in the emerging field of private spaceflight ventures. The Museum’s aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast. More than 150,000 individuals are served annually by the Museum’s onsite and outreach educational programs. The Museum of Flight is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Angela Decker, from McPherson, Kansas, discovered her passion for aviation after earning a Masterโs in Military History from Norwich University in 2011. Since 2012, she has volunteered with vintage aviation groups, excelling as a social media content creator and coordinator. Angela has coordinated aviation and WWII events, appeared as Rosie the Riveter, and is restoring a Stearman aircraft. She is the Operations Logistics Coordinator at CAF Airbase Georgia and an accountant with a degree in Economics from the University of Georgia. Her son, Caden, shares her love for aviation and history and is studying Digital Media Arts.
