Thursday, June 22, 2006

Road Trip Chronicles Vol. 8: National Air and Space Museum on the mall


So at 11:00, the NASM finally opened, and I was one of the first people in the door.
Scaled Composites Space Ship One
Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis"
Apollo 11 Command Module
Boeing 247
Douglas DC-3
Douglas D558-2 Skyrocket
Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago"
NASA Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Grumman F4F Wildcat
McDonnell FH-1 Phantom, the Navy's first operational jet fighter
Martin B-26 Marauder "Flak Bait". This marauder flew more combat missions than any other american bomber during WWII.
Hughes H-1 Racer
Macchi Mc.202 Folgore
Charles and Anne-Morrow Lindberg's Lockheed 8 Sirius "Tingmissartoq"
Messerschmitt Me-262
Bell XP-59 Airacomet
Backup Skylab
Spirit Of St. Louis
Ford Tri-Motor
V-1
V-2
Scaled Composites Voyager
North American X-15
X-24A
Grumman X-29
Lockheed XP-80 Shooting Star "Lulu-Belle"
Republic XP-84 Thunderjet instrument panel
Mitsubishi A6M "Zero"
Albatross D.Va
Glenn H. Curtiss Motorcycle
Wright Brothers Bicycle
1903 Wright Flyer
Charles Taylor's toolbox, aircraft mechanic for the Wright brothers and generally considered to be the first aircraft mechanic in history
Northwest Orient SST model. A friend of my dad's was the guy who painted this
For all the computer geeks in the room, a Cray 1 Supercomputer.

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