Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum

[Dawn Patrol]

Oops. I was going to post these a year ago, and since there’s a reminder right there from someone a Little More Timely Than Me. In my defense, I posted lots of these at the time on the Wings of Glory Facebook page at the time.

These are from my Google Pixel 6. I’ll have to go search the laptop for the ones from my DSLR. Both have been upgraded in the last year (Google Pixel 8 Pro, and Sony A58 to Sony A68 - because all the lens and bodies are cheap). Let’s see if I can this Google Drive to work since doing this on the phone rather than the big iPad Pro is a lot harder…

And got lost halfway through. So, I’ll just post what I have, sift through them to see what I missed, and hopefully remember to come back ne de them in. Yup. Missed some. Detective work to track it all down.

EDIT IN: Second set posted below.



F4U Corsair. My uncle fixed these and Wildcats at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.




And a little closer up…




P-40 Kitty Hawk. Or Warhawk, but I believe this particular one was a Kitty Hawk.




SR-71 Blackbird. This is what greets you when yo get to the main gallery.




P-40 & Corsair.




F-8 Crusader. Took the photo mostly because I made a model of this in my youth.




P-80 Shooting Star. Wait, damn, F-80? I forget. Someone will gleefully post the correct version.




F-86 Sabre. Perhaps the most beautiful fighter ever.




B-29 Superfortress, P-47 Thunderbolt.




Shoeless FW-190. Haha, the a French Resistance strikes again!




I note that the tires and wheels are back on this year.




This P-47 was absolutely glorious. Just Kaddy-korner to the beat-up, unrestored Komet (and across from Glamorous Glennis), this beast was just eye candy to look at.




Yeah, baby, *snap* show me your moves *snap* *snap*




Looks good from any angle.




P-38 Lightning




Bleriot, or a copy. I don’t have the picture I took of the placard at hand.




Kawanishi N1K2 Ja Shinden, aka “George”, the most anti-climatic nickname ever.




Sopwith Camel




Caudron G-4.




Halberstadt Cl-IV.




Spad XVI two seater.




Hawker Hurricane




Ohka Model 22 Slamhound. Sorry, feeling a bit William Gibson - Suicide bomb.




George yet again.




“Nazi Jet Bomber”. Oh, that’s a helpful note I wrote to myself. I’ll look it up later. And…the Arado Ar 234 B-2 Blitz.




Dornier Do 335 “Push me/Pull me”. The very last one in existence! And you thought the p-47 ‘Jug’ was enormous.




Rafter Queens!

Hopefully I lined up the right notes with the right config number…

[Baxter]

Great pics. I was at Omaka Aviation Heritage Museum a couple of weeks ago. Always nice to look at something older than I am.

[Teaticket]

Nice photos Bruce. What a great place!

[ArkansasChuck]

Bruce, those are some awesome photos. It looks like you were close enough to touch a few of those! Thank you for sharing!

[Stumptonian]

Great pics, Bruce.


Thanks for sharing.

[zenlizard]

Really nice overview of what's therre. Thanks for the pics!

[Dawn Patrol]

And found them, but since they are jumbled all together with the previous downloads from my phone to my iPad (Android and Apple are not the most transparent of photo swaps), I kinda have to guess which ones I included before, so if there are duplicates…maybe I’ll figure it out and delete them. Maybe not.



Hawker Hurricane.




F-86 Sabre.




MiG-17.




The size comparison that doesn’t really show how much smaller the MiG is.




Glamorous Glennis. Bell X-1.




Me-163 Komet. Unrestored.




I was always amazed they could get pilots to fly these explosions waiting to happen.




The tiny preview window means I don’t always get the right photo. This one was taken while waiting for the people one step to my left to move their blooming arses! ;-)




Another tiny preview window. Do ai want this one? Well, no, but here it is anyway.




Nieuport 28. Seeing this is person helps you realize just how small the Nieuport is.




P-38 Lightning. My cousin flew one in Europe.




Early P-51 Mustang. Wrong angle for identification, but as ai recall, this is an earlier non-bubble canopy model turned into a racer.




Enola Gay, B-29 Superfortress.




Loved taking this photo from an elevated walkway.




And to conclude, a closer view of the P-38. Hopefully I synched up the comments to the right photos…

[Dawn Patrol]

Bruce, those are some awesome photos. It looks like you were close enough to touch a few of those! Thank you for sharing!

They tend to be carefully arranged so you can’t touch them. Sticking my arms beyond the barrier gets me that much closer, but that’s more a function of getting the shot I’m looking for. The Pixel 6 only has a lower rez ultra-wide, and a high rez wide (my new 8 Pro has high rez telephoto, wide, and ultrawide). The dslr (which I still have to go through the laptop to find the photos there) has a f/2.8 zoom that was generally fast enough to deal with the lighting and I didn’t have to use sneaker-zoom so much. But always move your feet - there’s a better shot where that other guy is standing talking to his son…wait…patiently…yeeha, they moved!