Sunday, March 27, 2011

Weekly Winners - Air & Space edition

The boys’ Cub Scout pack did a day trip over to the Air & Space Museum in Dulles, VA. (4 hours in a car total. I deserve a badge myself) It’s an extension of the one on the Mall in DC. It’s not as big but stuffed full of planes.

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This Is a Benoist-Korn Type XII. It was built in May 1912. It is a two place biplane.

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This is a WWII bomber. I failed to note the specs of it – like the model name.

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This is a B29 Super fortress. Specifically, this is the Enola Gay.

My MIL riveted the mid sections of B29s at a factory in Maryland or possibly NJ in WWII. (MIL worked in three different aircraft factories during the war)

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and this is the Space Shuttle Enterprise, so ringed around with other, earlier space craft that I could not get the angle I wanted for a photo of it.

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And Mayhem got a chance to work the controls of a Cessna.

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