riff-raff says:
However, I had mixed feelings the first time I saw some hardware I designed being displayed in a museum. I spent a few years working on the Space Shuttle program, and a few years ago one of the retired Space Shuttles was put on display at the Air & Space museum in Los Angeles, so I went to see it. The first thing that struck me was how old I must be if something I designed was now part of a museum display!
Yeah, I know the feeling. When I was out at Robinson in 2006 Tim Tucker put up a slide with a picture of the #2 R22 which I have a few hundred hours in (#1 was crashed during certification, so it's the oldest R22). Without thinking I said, "Hey Tim, I have time in that machine... do you know where it is now?"
He looks at me sorrowfully and says, "the Smithsonian, Paul, the Smithsonian".
I felt very very old
