I visited the Udvar-Hazy Center Smithsonian Museum in May 2016. I show the pictures have you taste an atmosphere with interest. There are dark parts and unbalanced lighting of illuminations, so the images are not entirely satisfactory, but I’m glad you enjoyed them. My hobby is modeling, so ordinary people may feel some pictures from a strange angle. Some photos were out of focus.
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One of the leading exhibitions is Space Shuttle Discovery.
That’s a fantastic scratch. The other day, I watched the space survival movie by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, Gravity’s real astronaut is a tough job. Not only astronauts but the occupations that must be conscious of death constantly are also respected.
Space Shuttle Discovery. Though I took the thermal protection system tiles zoomed up, the focus was wrong. The inside was quite dark.
Space Shuttle Discovery. I made the plastic model of the Space Shuttle when I was an elementary school student. I remember that I painted with a brush hardly. I think I can improve it if I build it now.
Astronaut with maneuvering unit.
The floatation bags were used on the Apollo 11 mission. Mobile Quarantine Facility used by Apollo 11 after their return to Earth.
Gemini TTV-1 Paraglider Capsule.
Redstone PGM-11 nuclear missile. It’s very massive.
Vega I. A Vega plan of the Soviet Union used the space probe.
Mars Pathfinder and Rover. I don’t understand well, but it’s a section of Mars Searching. I suppose it has just opened the antenna which communicates with the Earth?
Ship-to-Air missile RIM-8J Talos.
U.S. Navy cruise missile Regulus I. The first U.S. ship to ground cruise missile. It could be fired from warships and submarines. Nuclear warheads can be mounted.
I think it’s an MGM-5 corporal short-range ballistic missile. For the first time, nuclear warheads can be mounted missiles the United States have been developed.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. One plane the Japanese shouldn’t forget. In front of it, we can see the Japanese fighters. That reminds me that President Obama made a speech in Hiroshima recently. I think it’s welcome, personally. It helped at least to face the different directions the Enola Gay and Japanese fighters, including those used in the suicide mission.
The Peashooter and glider. In the back, you can see the Corsair and the Kittyhawk.
Boeing P-26A pea shooter. A back red aircraft, Bowlus I-S-2100 Senior Albatross Falcon. It’s the one in the 1930’s glider of a one-seat.
The U.S. naval aircraft N3N-3 Yellow Peril. It was the only U.S. Navy training water plane at that time.
It’s also one of the leading exhibitions, Strategic reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 Fishbed C. I wonder if it’s a barter transaction with a Russian museum to get an airplane of such an old Communist bloc fighter? This condition is pretty good and precious.
Republic F-105D Thunderchief.
McDonnell F-4S Phantom II.
Grumman A6-E Intruder.
Lockheed Martin X-35B joint strike fighter.
Sikorsky HH-52 Seaguard.
Boeing Vertol V-107 (CH-46) tandem rotor helicopter.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. In front of Enola Gay, a small airplane, Nakajima Kikka Japanese Navy jet attack aircraft. Of the two aircraft prototypes that had been completed when the war ended, the U.S. military took them home for investigation.
The Nakajima J1N Gekko, the meaning of moonlight. A code name in the United States is Irving. Night fighter. Look in the back is a Northrop P-61C Black Widow. This is the U.S. military night attack aircraft. The yellow triangle of the Northrop N-1M flying wing. I think that it is something or a prototype.
(19-May-2016)
I am interested in models of tanks, airplanes, ships, military figures, I build them little by little when I feel like it. I am also interested in the history of war. My starting is Tamiya’s Military Miniature series in elementary school.
From elementary school through university students repeatedly suspend and restart my modeling, it’s about 25 years of this hobby’s history.
From February 2007 I was quietly doing a site called “Miniature-Arcadia”. It is being transferred to this blog with the same name from December 2016. My update pace is uneven, but please come to see me here occasionally.
