 | The ever-beautiful B-17.
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 | From the other side now...
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 | Dreaming of flight.
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 | Fat Man
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 | (In case you didn't know just what Fat Man is...)
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 | 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...
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 | Another view
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 | From above. That's an F-105 there.
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 | 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.
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 | Here's a not-very-good pic of me in the A10 cockpit mockup.
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 | 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.
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 | 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. |