Monday, June 16, 2014

Air and Space Museum, airport branch of the museum.


Visited the other part of the Air and Space Museum.  I found this part more interesting then the part in DC.




 Modified P-51 that was used for long distance racing
 B-29 Enola Gay.


 Concorde and others


 Space Shuttle Discovery





 Antiaircraft missile built by the Germans in WWII

 Glider and landing gear on a Gemini capsule. This was the original landing plan but ended up being complicated and they ran out of time, so they used parachutes.
 Northrup flying wing
 First jet bomber built by the Germans in WWII





 Flying car

 Boeing 707 prototype.
 Air racers

 Capsule that was used to set the record for highest skydive
 Fed Ex's first jet.
 Solar powered airplane



 Plane landing at Dulles

 SR-71

 Engine and ducting for the F-35
 F-35
 German rocket plane


1 comment:

  1. This place just seems to go on forever. The Discover would be awesome to see.

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