The Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum is unlike any other museum in the world. It contains probably the greatest collection of air and
space vehicles in the world. To
me, there are two things that make it special: (1) the range of air craft, from the beginning of man flight
to outer space; and, (2) large planes hanging light models throughout the
museum.
Today’s photos demonstrate the
range of aircraft within the museum.
The Sprit of St. Louis that was the first airplane with a single pilot
to go from New York to Paris. As I
was looking at the plane, I thought about JD’s and my trip to Paris last
November—flight time 10 hours, large comfortable seats, movies (too many),
decent movies and lots of wine!
Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight from New York to Paris—31 hours,
cramped seats, no restroom, cold sandwiches, no movies and NO wine!
Within 30 feet of the Spirit of St.
Louis is one of NASA’s experimental jet that travels at about 2.5 times the
speed of sound. This plane would
have allowed Lindberg to make the flight in about two hours. I could do without the movies, food and
even the wine for two hours!
Enjoy
Camera settings: Nikon D4,
28-300mm f/3.5~5.6 at 28mm, ISO 1600, f/8 at 1/30th of a second with
my camera supported by the railing.
Post Processing:
Lightroom 4—applied Nikon
Vivid preset during import, set white and black points and added vibrance and cropped
the second photo.
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