Passion for Flight

During a vacation trip covering the South Island of New Zealand, a visitor from Australia told us that he just had been at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim, in the northern part of the island. He highly recommended that we see that museum. So we did, and were hugely surprised. The museum has sixteen displays covering planes, events, and artifacts of World War I. Everything is housed in one large and stylish building. The hall of exhibits has no overall lighting. Instead, each display is lit by spotlights that make everything stand out. The YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9Brk0E9P0 gives a good overview of the museum and exhibits. The website of the museum http://www.omaka.org.nz/ has lots of additional information. The famous film director Peter Jackson, multiple Oscar winner and creator of a long list of outstanding movies, among them the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, used his influence to bring in artists of the movie industry fo