Museum of Flight Gala

Sherry & James Raisbeck with Raisbeck Aviation HS Student

Curmedgeon Ken and I enjoyed attending the Museum of Flight Gala this past weekend as guests of Puget Sound Business Journal.  It was a spectacular party with around one-third of the guests really getting into the spirit and dressing up in Great Gatsby era clothing.

Greeting guests near the front door by his exquisite classic car was James Raisbeck along with wife Sherry and a student from the new Raisbeck Aviation High School.  Sherry was wearing her special dress that had been Marilyn Monroe's and looked fantastic in it.

Ken Hatch with the "Champagne Girl"

Of course, one of the guest stars of the evening was the Electra 10-E airplane, a restored plane identical to the one Amelia Earhart loved flying and ultimately disappeared in, which came wheeling in front of the Museum of Flight piloted by Ann Simpson, Delta Airlines Captain, Museum of Flight Trustee and co-chair of the evening's festivities.

The Museum of Flight is of such grand size and scale that the tables awaiting the guests for dinner seemed tiny in comparison to the big Blackbird airplane towering over them.

We saw many friends including Gordy Prouty,

The tables awaiting the guests in the shadow of the Blackbird.

The "Champagne Lady"

Star of the Party:  The Electra 10-E

Marshal McReal, Patti Payne, Lee Keller, Nancy & Charlie Hogan, Dottie Simpson, Ann Wyckopf, Susan & Andy Hutchison, Bruce McCaw, Stacy & Doug King, Laurel & John Nesholm, Laurie Lyford, Robin Gainey & Jerry Sanford, Glenna Olson, Craig Stewart and others.