Midway - the city at sea

The Midway Museum offers an extensive audio tour (included w/admission - the complete tour takes about 3.5 hours), but with 2 small kids we decided to skip it and go straight to the flight deck. The plane in the photo is the A-7 Corsair II. Here's some amazing facts about the ship from the map/brochure: $90M to build in 1945; 212,000 horsepower; 69,000 tons total weight; 20-ton anchors; 2,000 feet of anchor chain; 1,500 telephones; 258 feet wide; 18 decks; 4.02-acre flight deck.