I'm a P51 Mustang man, and that red racing version sure did look cool...
The SR-71 Blackbird looked awesome as well...
Great stuff Christian. Thanks for the look in at the Smithsonian!
Cheers
Shaun
frank theriault wrote:
--- Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
The Smithsonian institution opened a new museum near
Dulles Airport in Virginia in December last year. My new employer (without naming names, it's the
largest "online" company in "America") had an "All
hands" meeting there last night. We basically had
the place to ourselves for 4 hours (i was there for
only 2 and shot 100 frames or so).
the scale of the place is amazing. Yes that is a real 707 parked next to the Concorde, adjacent to the B29... etc, etc. The scary part is that there is room for even more large aircraft. Oh, yeah, the space shttle "Enterprise" has its very own space as well (it never orbited, by the way, it was used for atmospheric (glider) testing and practice).
Anyway, here are 18 pictures where I try to convey the scale and uniqueness of the place.
Comments always welcome.
http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id20.html
http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id21.html
http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id22.html
http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id23.html
Christian
Hi, Christian,
Some pretty cool stuff there. Geez, looks like one
could lose one's self for hours (days?) in there!
Like Norm, I love the Thunderbolt. One butt-ugly
plane, but I understand the pilots loved it. Same
with the Phantom. I love it, but damn it's ugly! IIRC, Dan flew them in Vietnam. I'll bet we'll hear
from him on this thread (if we haven't already - gotta
go back and look at the rest of the posts).
Again, Christian, some great shots. It's not easy to make things in a museum look interesting and "different" (for lack of a better word), but you succeeded in spades here.
cheers, frank
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