alan
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Okay, I don't have desert vistas where I live, but we have a heck of a lot of museums.
Sunday my Sweetie and I went to the National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. The place is Fantastic! There are so many aircraft and other artifacts displayed we only saw a little over half of the museum, we need to make a few more trips. Everything is so well displayed, some you can get real close, some you walk under. At first it looks overwhelming but the walkways and catwalks are laid out so that you can see everything. I took so many pictures it was hard to choose, here's a few for a taste of the museum. I left my short lens at home on the kitchen counter so no wide shots...
This is a look at how some of the aircraft are displayed, with the Concorde in back.
In this museum there is a history of almost everything that can fly.This is one of Goddards first liquid fueled rockets, from 1935.
The first full-scale space shuttle "Enterprise", used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground.
Some of the large aircraft are displayed so that you can almost walk under them, some you actually can.
There are catwalks through the building on three levels, allowing good views of everything, like inside the Enola Gay's cockpit.
Some of the artifacts look like they've been through a war, like this Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
I like shiny metal; gears, tubing, stuff like that, but I took a LOT of my time looking at the SR-71 Blackbird. It's one of the most beautiful machines I've ever seen, every part of it.
Here's a question, would you rather...
Ride this across the Atlantic, sitting on lawn chairs, hanging under a balloon named the "Double Eagle II"...
...or share this Gemini can with a buddy out in space for 14 days?
If you're going to be in the Washington DC area its worth a trip. Its a tough call to choose between this and the Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall. This museum is not in the city, its located at Dulles Airport.
More pics of the museum artifacts here.
Sunday my Sweetie and I went to the National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. The place is Fantastic! There are so many aircraft and other artifacts displayed we only saw a little over half of the museum, we need to make a few more trips. Everything is so well displayed, some you can get real close, some you walk under. At first it looks overwhelming but the walkways and catwalks are laid out so that you can see everything. I took so many pictures it was hard to choose, here's a few for a taste of the museum. I left my short lens at home on the kitchen counter so no wide shots...
This is a look at how some of the aircraft are displayed, with the Concorde in back.
In this museum there is a history of almost everything that can fly.This is one of Goddards first liquid fueled rockets, from 1935.
The first full-scale space shuttle "Enterprise", used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground.
Some of the large aircraft are displayed so that you can almost walk under them, some you actually can.
There are catwalks through the building on three levels, allowing good views of everything, like inside the Enola Gay's cockpit.
Some of the artifacts look like they've been through a war, like this Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
I like shiny metal; gears, tubing, stuff like that, but I took a LOT of my time looking at the SR-71 Blackbird. It's one of the most beautiful machines I've ever seen, every part of it.
Here's a question, would you rather...
Ride this across the Atlantic, sitting on lawn chairs, hanging under a balloon named the "Double Eagle II"...
...or share this Gemini can with a buddy out in space for 14 days?
If you're going to be in the Washington DC area its worth a trip. Its a tough call to choose between this and the Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall. This museum is not in the city, its located at Dulles Airport.
More pics of the museum artifacts here.
Great pics, I know you had fun 
