The Moffett Field Museum
The Moffett Field in Mountain View, California is a federal airfield that dates back to the 1930s. It's been turned into a museum now. You can see what it looks like today in the photograph below: (Photo credit: Ikluft ) I lived in the San Francisco bay area for twelve years, but never visited this place despite driving on highway 101 umpteen number of times past a visibly huge hanger 1 (that you can see on the left of the runway in the image above) made for dirigibles (airships or blimps a la the infamous Hindenburg). We have seen a rather comical take on a Nazi blimp in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: On a trip to the bay area this time, I decided to drive up; couldn't have asked for a better day - a beautiful, bright typical summer's day with a cool, cool breeze from the bay and not a cloud in the sky. This is THE California weather that people pay higher taxes for. A little bit of history of the Moffett field - several good web sites discuss it in depth so I won...