SEATTLE, July 19, 2018--The Museum's Aug. 4-5 Seafair weekend outdoor festival-by-the-flightline, Jet Blast Bash, offers fast planes, fast cars, music, food and beer with the closest seats in Seattle to the ceremony and thunder of the Blue Angels' takeoffs and landings. The event is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and free with admission to the Museum. Jet Blast Bash is also the launch pad for most of the other Boeing Seafair Air Show performers.
Taking center stage will be a rare World War II PBY Catalina flying boat from Canada, and visiting with compliments of the US Navy is a new E/A-18 Growler jet and a E-2C Hawkeye propjet. Visitors will also have access to the last weekend of tours onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, an MD-10 cargo plane converted into the world's only flying eye care teaching hospital. The Orbis jet will be parked on the Museum tarmac for tours all weekend.
Jet Blast Bash boasts classic cars, safe trampolines by Springfree®, activities for the kids, live music performances by The Mix and the Boeing Employee Stage Band, and a beer garden underneath the Lockheed Super Constellation airliner with catering by McCormick and Schmick's. Visitors can also meet representatives from dozens of community partners with clubs and museums focused on planes, trains, automobiles and ships.
Inside of the Museum there will be presentations about the history of the Blue Angels, and renowned SR-71 spyplane pilot and author, Brian Shul, returns with his world-famous tales from the edge of space.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:

Ted Huetter/Senior Public Relations Manager

T: 206.768.7105 C: 206.455.5360 Email: thuetter@museumofflight.org

Access all of The Museum of Flight press releases
###

About The Museum of Flight:
Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, serving 600,000 visitors annually. 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 20-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer and the only exhibit of the rocket engines used to launch Apollo astronauts to the Moon. 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.
The Museum of Flight is located at 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle, Exit 158 off Interstate 5 on Boeing Field halfway between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport. The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum admission for adults is $24.00 on-site and $22.00 online. Youth 5 through 17 are $15.00 on-site and $14 online, youth 4 and under are free. Seniors 65 and over $20 on-site and $19 online. Groups of ten or more: $22.00 per adult, $14.00 per youth, Thanks to Wells Fargo, on the first Thursday of every month, admission is free from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. And parking is always free. There is a full lunch menu café in the Museum and a limited menu café in the Aviation Pavilion, both operated by McCormick & Schmick's. For general Museum information, please call 206-764-5720 or visit www.museumofflight.org.