National Air and Space Museum

On October 2nd we visited the National Air and Space Museum. For me (Jon) it was one of the most interesting parts of our trip so far. This is a shot from the simulated air control tower towards Dulles Airport.

This is the appollo 11 landing module and floatation gear used in the first landing on the moon.

The rear of the space shuttle Endevor.

The under carriage of the space shuttle with a shot of the infamous tiles like those that caused the Columbia to explode.

Looking at the front of the space shuttle.

An F-35 prototype, the future of fighter jets.

An F-14 Tomcat

A SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest fighter jet ever, the US was using them for 15 years before the public found out about them.

Side view of the SR-71

A view of multiple planes but especially the Concord was amazing the only passenger plane able to break the sound barrier.

The first helicopter to fly a president of the United States.

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Another shot of the Concord.

MaryAnn, Thomas, Emily and Keira.

The Enola Gay, this plane dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan.

One of the first prototypes of a plane, this one proved to not be very engineerically sound.
Obviously there were hundreds of other planes that were fascinating, way too many to put on here. This photo represents Keira's most memorable part of the trip because Thomas dropped his toy plane over this rail, we got the toy back but Keira has been mentioning Thomas's airplane falling and that it is broken for a couple weeks now.