We admittedly didn’t put in as much effort into this visit to Tulsa as we had other places.  There are certainly plenty of interesting things to do, but it was such a short visit, and we were working a lot. Maybe we were tired, maybe it was the weather, who knows? In all fairness, Tulsa is a decent little mini-city. It’s known mostly for its Native American roots and former oil glory days when many residents got rich on “black gold” and built palatial mansions along the Arkansas River. A number of people we spoke to reflected back fondly on those days. More recently, there has been an effort at urban renewal, with lots of parks by the the riverfront, a variety of restaurants, a zoo and top-notch museums.

We had the opportunity to visit the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, as it was one of our event sites for work. I called on my teaching experience to give brief talks to school groups visiting the museum for the day. The main topic was, of course, the race car, and how it tied in to their visit through aerodynamics, motors and engineering.