Day 4 - kalamazoo, Michigan

Googlemaps:  Air Zoo Aviation Museum

After staying with my aunt and uncle in Chicago, we headed east to Indiana passing by South Bend where both he and my father went to Notre Dame University.  We entered Michigan and stopped in Portage and the Air Zoo Aviation Museum to see the SR-71 Blackbird that my father flew in back in 1974.

Phil standing with the President & CEO of the Air Zoo, Mr. Troy Thrash.

Walt LaBerge in the white space suit standing next to Col. Pat Bledsoe after flying in the SR-71 on July 1, 1974 at over
Mach 3 at an altitude of 85,000 ft.  The SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air breathing plane ever built.