| The ever-beautiful B-17. |
| From the other side now... |
| Dreaming of flight. |
| Fat Man |
| (In case you didn't know just what Fat Man is...) |
| Inside the museum. It's nowhere near as big as the Navy Museum, but there's still a fair bit of stuff here. Lots of missiles... |
| Another view |
| From above. That's an F-105 there. |
| The progress of technology in the 20th century is pretty amazing, but when you look at it as regards to human aviation, IMHO it's really just stunning. Think about it - it's been fewer than 100 years (as I write this) that man has been aloft in airplanes. And it was less than 60 years between kitty hawk and the first manned spaceflight! It's really astonishing. |
| Here's a not-very-good pic of me in the A10 cockpit mockup. |
| And here's a look at the A10 cockpit. There's a bazillion little buttons and switches in there. Beats the heck outta me how those guys remember how everything works. |
| There was a pretty large collection of handguns (as well as a few bigger guns) on display; I've set up a separate page for those. |