I've run out of even vaguely amusing titles

One more shot of the bud plane where you can see the writing:


Wooden propellers are very cool to me for some reason.


Note a little thing called the Concorde in the lower left....


SHINY!


MESMERIZE-Y!


I miss my days at FedEx :(


Choppers!

Stuff that flies

But not bugs, just man-made flying contraptions.



The Enola Gay.



Oh no little plane, watch out for the Blackbird!


Just some random stuff on the floor.  I like the yellow flying wing thingamajig.


It's coming right for us!


Other things!


Finally, TB1 and TB2 pose in front of, what else, the Budweiser Plane!

Strippers!

Hah, gotcha!  Really, just more photos of the Udvar-Hazy Center.

This room is where they rehab/refurb/whatever the planes and spacemobiles before they go on display.


Another shot of the satellite hanging from the ceiling:


TB2 cogitating on the experience of getting to hang out with someone as cool as I am!


I look at this, and I feel like it would fit right in at the lab.  That's kinda scary...


Next time we venture away from spacemobiles and back to airplanes....

Shiny!

More old computers!


One last shot of the space shuttle :(

Planes, trains, and automobiles. Except no trains or automobiles.

Cool record/plaque thingy


One of my favorite exhibits - old computer equipment!  Univac!






Blinkenlights... except they don't blink any more... :(


IDEX workstation - color monitor on the right, black and white on the left.  Note the 3-D goggles!



Shuttlebutt!

Still exploring Udvar-Hazy

I don't know exactly what this was, but it looked cool...


A manipulation arm thingy on the shuttle Discovery - made in Canada!


Fancy satellite thingy on the ceiling


Various rocket-y things


Another nifty ceiling satellite!


NEED MOAR SPACE SHUTTLE!


TB1 and TB2 mugging for the camera


More rocket-y things!

To Infinity, and Beyond!

Or maybe just back to the Air and Space stuff.

Very cool old Messerschmit, IIRC:


The main exhibit!


Dayum, the shuttle is freaking huge.



What's this?  weapons!  Little John missile launcher:

Leaving Edelweiss

After we left Edelweiss, we basically headed straight up to DC.... random stops/photos from along the way:



I never saw the end of these caverns... but I never saw the start of them either!


The weather got a lot nicer as the day went on, even at this rest area


Surprise!  Before we actually went into DC, we stopped at the Udvar-Hazy annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum!


Photo of TB1 taking some photos!


Blackbird, sweeeeeeeeet!


TB1+TB1+Blackbird == awesome


Some sort of flying-wing type contraption thingymadoober: