360° virtual tours of famous aircraft

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, has been working with Microsoft to digitise the interiors of some of its aircraft.

It means that visitors to the museum, and to the museum’s website, can wander through the cockpit and interiors on the Surface Pro tablets carried by the museum’s docents & volunteers, or remotely on their desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone or VR headset, and see the parts of the aircraft that are normally off-limits in high definition.

So far the aircraft you can visit are, their:

(It’s Seattle, they would be big on Boeing!)

They plan to add more in due course.

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Alastair

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I'm a specialist travel journalist writing about battlefield sites, technical museums, military history, transport infrastructure, electric vehicles, amazing engineering & architecture, industrial heritage… and where you can see it. I’ve been a travel editor & presenter since 1989, originally in local radio, then national & international radio (Classic FM) before moving online just before the millennium. I’ve been an active member of the travel creative community since 2010 and a regular speaker at social media travel conferences. I’m an accredited member of the British Guild of Travel Writers (former Chair & Vice-Chair). I am co-author of Bradt: D-Day Landings – A travel guide to Normandy’s beaches and battlegrounds.

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