More Tales from Ohio ~ Statues, Airplanes and Briars... OH MY

Icarus Originally uploaded by manahanwill. On Sunday the 24, Jenne and I joined our friend, retired USAF Colonel Al Howey for a personal tour of the National Museum of the United States Airforce. We hadn't seen Al and his wife Barb in eight years! We would see Barb later...

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STOP

STOP Triple Crown Photographs made Sunday October 30th at the BWI Airport aircraft observation park on Dorsey Road....

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Brute Force

Brute Force, salvaged B-52 nose art on display at the USAF Museum, Wright Paterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Monday morning. The week is only minutes into beginning and already I can tell it's going to be one that I will have to get through by brute force. I can just...

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Flying the Unfriendly Skies

This entry rated SHG-13 by the Academy of Gaming Arts and Sciences for its Super High Geek factor. It is about combat flight simulations and may not be of interest to everyone. I really geek out in this one. One of my many hobbies - yes ANOTHER hobby - is...

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Strawberry Bitch

Strawberry Bitch, American B-24 Liberator bomber. National Musuem of the USAF, Dayton, Ohio While I was photographing this piece of WWII nose art one of the museum volunteers approached Jenne and I. He was a retired gentleman who spent a few days each week at the museum. He told...

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Dream Girl Invasion

Dream Girl. More pretty girls on the noses of fighter planes. This painting is on a Korean War A-26C "INVADER"....

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Pretty Girls and Planes...

Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, Nose Art on WWII B-17, USAF Museum. ...two great things that go great together. It's called Nose Art and pilots and ground crews have been painting it on combat aircraft since the First World War. Nose art is not just pretty girls, although a lot...

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Flying Tiger

Flying Tiger Photograph made at the National Museum of the United States Airforce, Christmas week 2004. To learn more about the Flying Tigers and the P-40 Warhawk click here....

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Dive Brakes

Dive Brakes in Abstract, Northrop A-17A attack aircraft. Another image from our visit to the National Museum of the USAF during the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2004. The undercarriage of this particular aircraft was illuminated with red and blue lights....

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Hamilton Standard

Hamilton Standard An abstract of a propellor blade on a Boeing P-26A on display at the National Museum of the USAF....

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Wings

Wings A view looking down and between the length of the right wings and towards the cockpit of the Packard LePere LUSAC....

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Cold (War) ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 01.27.05

Two aviation relics of the Cold War. The Convair B36J strategic bomber and the Lockheed F-94C "Starfire" fighter jet (right). As you can see I went a different route with this week's Thursday Challenge of Cold. Being that I was at the USAF Museum in December I have lots...

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Size Matters

Boeing B-52D 'Stratofortress' inside one of the three identical hangers of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Like I said in an earlier post, the USAFM has a lot of planes, missles and spacecraft. Some of them very small and some of them - like the...

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For Photographic Work Only

Druring the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Jenne and I were in Ohio and part of the trip was a day long visit to the National Museum of the US Air Force. Jenne could tell you that the USAFM is like a religious pilgrimage for me. I...

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