I saw some dinosaurs in Wichita a few weeks ago

Like thousands of others in the area who enjoy careers in aerospace, I have frequent occasion to travel to the city of Wichita. Wichita has a proud history as the location where Clyde Cessna and Walter Beech started their airplane companies, and is currently also home to facilities owned by Boeing, Learjet, Spirit Aerosystems, and even Airbus.

Wichita also has some fine restaurants and entertainment as well. The beef is to die for. In recent years the city’s restaurants have made strides in offering micro-brews and great coffee choices, (along with wine from everywhere), so the dining seems comparable to Seattle, with less seafood choices but outstanding ribs and steaks.

But as a special treat on my most recent visit, I stopped in at a local museum and was extremely impressed by their world history collection. They had ten dinosaur skeletons approximately 65 million to 200 million years old, as well as Egyptians Mummies, Buddhas from China, suits of armor, uniforms and weaponry from all the wars the US has been involved in, presidential artifacts, movie memorabilia, old west relics (like Frank James pistol), exotic musical instruments (including a rare “square” piano and a reed organ, and many other interesting items that I had never seen before.

For the thousand of you out there who make the occasional trip to Wichita, I strongly recommend a visit to the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita’s old town.

Their T-rex skeleton, named Ivan, is the third-most complete T-Rex skeleton ever discovered (click for more info)