Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C.

Completed my NASM collection of images with my visit yesterday to the main building in DC. The lighting and cramming is even worse there...despite the high ISO, I think I was able to gather some pretty good shots. Let me know what you think...

Albatros D.Va

Spad XIII "Smith IV"

Pfalz D.VII

Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless

Italian Macchi C.202 Folgore

U.S. Navy A4 Skyhawk

Neil Armstrong's Space Suit from Apollo 11...

Nice shots. I haven't been there in years. Do they still have that scale model of the USS Enterprise? Or maybe it wasn't the Enterprise.

You got more great shots from it!

Nice Shots. Where else can you get an A-4, SBD and a F-4-F in the same shot and without people in the way. Thanks for posting love the old planes.

dizzye36m3 wrote in post #9503392
Nice shots. I haven't been there in years. Do they still have that scale model of the USS Enterprise? Or maybe it wasn't the Enterprise.

I don't know which carrier it is but yes, it's still there.

Desertrat wrote in post #9504648
Nice Shots. Where else can you get an A-4, SBD and a F-4-F in the same shot and without people in the way. Thanks for posting love the old planes.

Although I have a great affinity for the aircraft from WWII, the WWI planes have a nostalgia and mystique that is all their own. I think they are so fantastic: graceful and full of color, fragile yet deadly in their time. I think to go up in the air for hours in these wooden contraptions took a whole 'nother level of balls than most men have these days.

Rhilton4u wrote in post #9505590
I don't know which carrier it is but yes, it's still there.

Although I have a great affinity for the aircraft from WWII, the WWI planes have a nostalgia and mystique that is all their own. I think they are so fantastic: graceful and full of color, fragile yet deadly in their time. I think to go up in the air for hours in these wooden contraptions took a whole 'nother level of balls than most men have these days.

that could be said about automobiles as well!

NASM is one of the (few) things I miss about living on the East Coast.

Nice work here!

RadAL wrote in post #9508799
that could be said about automobiles as well!

Survival in early automobiles wasn't measured in hours...

It was also highly unlikely that you'd have to leap out of one to your death without a parachute because the alternative was burning alive as you spiraled to the ground.

Carrier Model is still there..... Still impressive, though its been moved (I think its in the carrier room now, used to be outside on the catwalk).....

Love the wheels on the Albatross.......

Mark H

im going to the museum in march but can i just have your pix mine wont be as good ....jk
looked at your flicker super shots. Do I need a week in that part of the museum?

greg20d wrote in post #9510164
im going to the museum in march but can i just have your pix mine wont be as good ....jk
looked at your flicker super shots. Do I need a week in that part of the museum?

Thanks Greg. The one in DC looks bigger than it is...The WWII, WWI and Naval Aviation rooms are my favorites and all three of those can be completed in about an hour. I think the entire museum can be done in maybe two hours. Three if you go to the IMAX theater and/or Einstein planetarium.

It really depends on your interest and how much reading you do in the exhibits, I have a pretty good knowledge at what I'm looking at so I tend not to read all the stuff on the walls much.

If you really want to spend some time go to the Udvar-Hazy Center. It's well worth the trip and you get special guided tours by very knowledgeable gentlemen. Just seeing the Space Shuttle is worth the trip out there all in itself.

Rhilton4u wrote in post #9510980
Thanks Greg. The one in DC looks bigger than it is...The WWII, WWI and Naval Aviation rooms are my favorites and all three of those can be completed in about an hour. I think the entire museum can be done in maybe two hours. Three if you go to the IMAX theater and/or Einstein planetarium.

It really depends on your interest and how much reading you do in the exhibits, I have a pretty good knowledge at what I'm looking at so I tend not to read all the stuff on the walls much.

If you really want to spend some time go to the Udvar-Hazy Center. It's well worth the trip and you get special guided tours by very knowledgeable gentlemen. Just seeing the Space Shuttle is worth the trip out there all in itself.

spent 3 hours today and then the family ran me out

on the douglas (and the one after that) I can see where you photoshopped... you might want to be a little more "smooth"