
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 |

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 |