Seattle’s Festival on the Flightline ✈️ 🎶🍔 Jet Blast Bash is back August 2 and 3 with a front-row view of the Blue Angels takeoff and landing, food trucks, live music and more. Only at The Museum of Flight. | The Museum of Flight

Seattle is filled with aviation history! Did you know that five years before Bill Boeing built his first plane, a Japanese immigrant name Takayuki Takasow constructed and flew an aircraft in Seattle out of bamboo? Historian Tim Nelson, author of the book ‘Jet City Rewind’ took our Senior Curator Matthew Burchette for a whirlwind tour of some of the historic sites within just a few miles of The Museum of Flight. What Seattle aviation sites would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments!

THE BARREL ROLL >> Maybe the biggest moment in Seattle aviation history happened 60 years ago today. If you grew up in Seattle, you've heard about Tex Johnston and the Dash-80. If you're new here, this is a classic #Seattle story. Check it out. And here are other throwback #Seafair pics from a few years later >> http://bit.ly/60sSeafairPICS | KIRO 7 News