Frontiers of Flight Museum

Outside the Frontiers of Flight Museum

Inside the Southwest Plane

Nose of the Southwest Plane

Captain Charles D. Mohrle

One of our first field trips as a family was to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field almost 10 years ago.  We have been to other aerospace museums including the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, and the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.  But the Frontiers of Flight Museum is the best, for one simple reason, all of the docents are retired flyers!  It is truly living history, the men taking you on the tour built the aircraft, flew the missions, they lived the history. 

It is so humbling to know the man teaching your children enlisted on December 7, 1941 because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor!  Captain Charles D. Mohrle, just one of the amazing volunteers tells the stories of the 3 days of engagement he and the 510the squadron flew in the Normandy invasion.  He showed photos of the 24 pilots that began that mission and he is one of only 6 who survived those 3 days.  The children shook his hand and told him thank you as he told each of them, they were worth it.  I had to hug him; a hand shake just didn’t cut t for me.

The museum follows the flight plan of the earliest aviators to modern astronauts.  You can learn the history behind balloons and Zeppelins, the Wright brothers, World War I & II, commercial and general flight and the ongoing space program. There is a huge array of artifacts help bring history to life; full-size aircraft including the Apollo 7 Command Module, aircraft models, engines, missiles, space artifacts including the only moon rock in north Texas, uniforms, trophies, posters, helmets, art and many information kiosks.

Today our fifty PEACH kids met true heroes! I think the web site shows it takes 30 or so minutes to tour the facility; we spent 3+ hours there today and loved every minute of it!

Give to everyone what you owe them:

If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue;

if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13:7