05/27/08 - A first visit to the National Air Force Museum
Previous BatchNext Batch My sweet desk setup with the TV and monitor |
 Same setup with flash |
 Mom in the parking lot outside the museum |
 A neat monument thing |
 We decided to check out the monument outside |
 A big medal |
 A propellor |
 An airplane.. on a stick |
 Icarus! |
 A model of the Wright Flyer |
 World War I planes |
 Mom actually read the stuff, I was mostly here to take pictures |
 Wright Flyer and flag |
 A propeller from a Wright Brothers plane |
 A longer exposure of the Wright Flyer |
 An old plane |
 An early wind tunnel |
 Another early plane |
 Some engine |
 Plane |
 Planes still had propellers at this point |
 A rotary engine |
 Nice stripes |
 Mom stands in front of Stripes |
 Plane |
 I'm glad I brought my tripod |
 A later wind tunnel |
 This guy was at a crazy angle |
 Mom stands in front of the big wind tunnel |
 Funnt dudes in a basket |
 Another old plane |
 Yep |
 Good advice |
 A flying torpedo |
 Just for comparison, here's a picture with the tripod and long exposure.. |
 .. and one with flash. This is what all the chump tourists see when they get home |
 Crazy Angle Man again |
 Planes with no skins |
 A war plane? |
 Looks like it |
 A neat metal plane |
 There were lots of funny statues |
 The engines started getting bigger |
 Looks like the blue angels |
 Mom tries to get reception |
 Wing frame |
 The planes are getting pretty big |
 Neat lighting |
 Army plane! |
 A big blimp! |
 Mom standing in front of the weird helicopter plane |
 Great grandfather of the Osprey? |
 Yellow plane |
 Me and Mom in front of a bomb |
 A long exposure of the blimp |
 Mom next to the funny little plane |
 Tiny plane |
 Silver |
 Tiny plane again |
 Lots of planes |
 Some weird foreign plane |
 Another silver |
 Looking snazzy |
 I love the light flares |
 Shiny |
 Oh noes, a crash! |
 Mom stands next to the giant wheel |
 Uhoh, someone's in trouble |
 Another weird statue |
 86? Good number |
 Lots of silvers |
 A funny little early simulator |
 WWII planes |
 A shark plane |
 Starting to get bigger |
 I think that's a fuel pod on the bottom |
 Lots of planes hanging around |
 A neat engine |
 A bomber? |
 A medic plane.. |
 Orange |
 Mom's not really a pilot |
 Another bomber |
 Orange again |
 Silver and yellow |
 A plane shadow |
 Target practice planes |
 Machine guns in the front |
 This is the plane my great uncle Will flew |
 What a coincidence, it's got Strawberry's name in it |
 Even more of a coincidence, part of the communication system is called |
 Mom in front of the Strawberry Bitch |
 Snazzy artwork |
 The back of the Liberator |
 The long exposures really make the difference |
 Plane.. |
 A sweet 360 near the Strawberry Bitch |
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 Another fighter |
 Planes.. |
 A big engine |
 That's a lot of bombs on the side |
 Bombers |
 At this point I went back to auto-white balance |
 Me in front of a V2 |
 A V1 buzz bomb |
 Propellor! |
 Another bomber with some snazzy WWII artwork |
 Too bad modern warplanes don't do this |
 A ball gunner's ball |
 I tried to give it some scale by standing in front of it but I couldn't really get close enough |
 A Messerschmitt, the first fighter jet |
 The jet engine |
 One of those weird tiny German rocket planes |
 The V2 again |
 My mom thought my grandmother might want to see this |
 Clark Gable part 2 |
 Clark Gable part 3 |
 Big plane |
 Lots of Japanese kills.. |
 Lots of bombs |
 Now this looks familiar.. |
 It's a B-29 |
 A Fatman bomb! |
 I stand in front of the Plutonium implosion device |
 A Uranium Gun device |
 Little Boy |
 This plane's pretty dark.. |
 The back of the B-29 |
 Skipping forward a bit.. The F-22 Raptor! |
 The engines on the Raptor are incredible |
 I didn't have time to go explore that area.. next time |
 Some UAV. Looks familiar but I can't remember the name |
 A Predator! |
 The cafeteria tray |
 This reminded me of |
 A hydrogen bomb |
 Somehow I got Mom to hug it |
 It's pretty sobering to see it right there next to what it's capable of |
 Some bomber |
 Some weird plane |
 DEFCON! |
 A B-2.. the stealth bomber |
 That Boeing UAV they're always showing off |
 The B-2 is pretty incredible up close |
 The probe on the front of some fighter |
 The same fighter from a little farther off |
 The back of the SR-71 Blackbird |
 One of the most incredible aircraft ever built |
 The engine of the Blackbird |
 The front of the engines of the Blackbird |
 The front of the Blackbird |
 Looking down the front of the Blackbird |
 Atomic weapons |
 I bumped the tripod by accident so I walked away with it in the middle of the shot.. kind of a neat effect |
 Looks like a fission bomb |
 The fusion bombs were really spooky |
 The fission bomb again |
 The real Apollo 15 Command Module |
 The side of the Command Module |
 The Dyna-soar |
 Mom standing in front of a Mercury capsule |
 They were really small |
 A Gemini capsule |
 They're so small! Jim Lovell and Frank Borman spent two weeks in one of these! |
 The bottom of a Mercury capsule |
 The payload of a Peacekeeper missile.. it kind of exudes evil |
 ICBMs.. the dark side of the space program |
 The engines on an ICBM |
 An inertial guidance system. It's essentially a giant Wiimote |
 The engine on a V2 |
 The capsule used in the highest parachute jump |
 The B-2, U-2, and SR-71 |
 The Stealth Bomber and the Blackbird |
 Mom in a fighter cockpit |
 It was fun being in the cockpit |