Stinson Airport

Scott's flight school is moving to Stinson Airport from San Antonio International this weekend, so we thought we would see how far away it was and check it out. It's still in San Antonio, and is about 25 minutes from our apartment instead of 10 minutes. But since it's a smaller airport he'll save time taxiing so it'll probably be a wash.

This is the newly remodeled terminal building. Stinson is one of the oldest airports in the United States still in operation.

The airfield.

There was a helicopter tour company giving tours of downtown.
Of course we had to check out the museum. This was some sort of attitude chamber they used to get pilots trained for flight. There's a chair inside and the sphere moves you all around in different attitudes.

These are Curtis aircraft that were used in the Mexican Revolution in the teens. Pilots would actually get in dogfights and shoot at each other with pistols while flying. And just like the Wright Flyer, there's no cockpit or anything!

This is a Cessna 150, which is the same size as the 152 Scott first trained on. We were looking at it and we honestly don't know how he ever fit in there, let alone with an instructor. It's veeery small.

This is a Funk B-38, which neither of us had ever heard of.

A Sikorski helicopter. It was so big Renee thought it was an airplane missing its wings.

One of the other outdoor exhibits, we can't remember what it was called.

We then headed home to walk Bridget, but once we got there we apparently didn't get ready fast enough for her because she chewed through her leash while waiting. So we had to take a detour to PetCo before heading to the park!