An extraction from my USA trip, Washington DC: The Air and Space museum complex (part of the Smithsonian). Also includes Shep.
I'll leave additional annotations to Shepy-poo
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Dammit, I've been wanting to visit there for years!
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
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Broomstick wrote:Someone pass me a drool bucket, please.
Dammit, I've been wanting to visit there for years!
I have a lot more photos from there (that I didn't upload). Anything you're particularily interested in? . (We didn't visit the annex though)
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Mostly, I just wanted to go and soak up the ambiance. For a pilot, being around that much aviation history would be amazing.
But, mostly, I'm interested in civilian and pre-1950 aviation.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Broomstick wrote:Mostly, I just wanted to go and soak up the ambiance. For a pilot, being around that much aviation history would be amazing.
But, mostly, I'm interested in civilian and pre-1950 aviation.
The exhibition hall on that subject was Awesome, from the history, the early aircraft, the uniforms...
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Now that I've satisfied that decades-long desire to fly a Stearman biplane my next Impossible Dream is to get into the cockpit of a Jenny. Even more wildly unlikely, unless I become a tens-of-millionaire and buy/restore one myself. >sigh<
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Broomstick wrote:Like I said, pass me a drool bucket.
Now that I've satisfied that decades-long desire to fly a Stearman biplane my next Impossible Dream is to get into the cockpit of a Jenny. Even more wildly unlikely, unless I become a tens-of-millionaire and buy/restore one myself. >sigh<
Fair nuff, mine's to steal a SR-71 Blackbird (Or a modern B-2) and to pilot it after having it painted bright blue, while firing fireworks out of the window.
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Great pics. Makes me wish I had something better than a Instamatic with 110 film during my two visits back in the late 1980s.
Broomstick wrote:Someone pass me a drool bucket, please.
Dammit, I've been wanting to visit there for years!
You've never been? They just had a big fly-in at the Udvar-Hazy Center just over a week ago with 60+ aircraft. But the best part about NASM and the annex is the free admission. That goes for all of the Smithsonian's museums, of course. Hope you get to go some time!
FSTargetDrone wrote: But the best part about NASM and the annex is the free admission. That goes for all of the Smithsonian's museums, of course. Hope you get to go some time!
Well, it's pretty much all I did in DC (I did everything in the Smithsonian institutes apart from the Indian museum), and all for free! Huzzah! (I did't even need to pay for the subway, my hostel was just 35 minutes walk from the strip ).
Even the national monument was free (And offers great views!)
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
FSTargetDrone wrote:You've never been? They just had a big fly-in at the Udvar-Hazy Center just over a week ago with 60+ aircraft.
>sigh<... No, I've never been
Hope you get to go some time!
Started planning a DC vacation - including that museum, among others - about 5 or 6 years ago. It's been one crisis after another since then. And now I'm a bit short of funds for traveling. I'm sure I'll get there one day, but life has been interfering with my vacation plans for some time now.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
When were you there, man? I was just there a few days ago.
Also: why did you photograph the non-detailed side of the Enterprise?
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Anguirus wrote:When were you there, man? I was just there a few days ago.
It was the second place in my USA trip, so about... 18-22.5.2009
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Heh, that was about when I was busy graduating college.
"I spit on metaphysics, sir."
"I pity the woman you marry." -Liberty
This is the guy they want to use to win over "young people?" Are they completely daft? I'd rather vote for a pile of shit than a Jesus freak social regressive.
Here's hoping that his political career goes down in flames and, hopefully, a hilarious gay sex scandal. -Tanasinn
You can't expect sodomy to ruin every conservative politician in this country. -Battlehymn Republic
Anguirus wrote:Heh, that was about when I was busy graduating college.
Well, see you next time i'm there then. Probably when you'll have a phd due
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
. (We didn't visit the annex though)
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