Remember how we mentioned a visit to the National Museum of the United States Air Force back in our previous post? Well, with all the hundreds of aircraft on display at the Air Force Museum, we thought it would be appropriate to give the museum its own post. Way back in 1995 – when I still was still a high-schooler certain of my trajectory toward the Air Force Academy – we visited Dayton on our one and only Continue reading
Little known fact: when I was a child, I really, really, really wanted to be a pilot – I dreamed of flying fighters for the Air Force and even began the lengthy process of applying for the academy. If it weren’t for my sudden need of glasses, who knows where I would be today. Yet I was undeterred and headed to college with every intent of becoming a pilot and flying commercially. However, after a year of flight training, I realized that while I love flying, the appeal of commercial aviation as a career began to wane, and… so here I am today, a professional photographer, writing this post for your enjoyment (or derision if you prefer).
But enough about me. Let’s talk about this weekend’s Sea and Sky Spectacular at Jacksonville Beach. Sunday afternoon, after church, we headed out to see the air show – though the weather was less than ideal and threatened rain, the show area managed to stay precipitation-free the entire time. The show itself was filled with a wonderful variety of performers, from solo acts and formation groups, to historic flights from a couple of P-51 Mustangs and an F4U Corsair, to Fat Albert and the Blue Angels. Because of all the moisture in the air, the planes were throwing vapor trails left and right, which made for some pretty cool opportunities, like the one above.
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It’s now been exactly a month since we visited the Air and Space Annex in Dulles, VA, on our way home from New England. This was our first visit to the annex, and I must say, it was impressive. Unlike the main museum, the annex is spacious and wide open, with not just small aircraft, but very large examples of aviation milestones. From the Enola Gay – (the B-29 that dropped the world’s first atomic bomb in combat – shown below, to the Dash-80 (the prototype for the Boeing 707 which introduced the jet engine to commercial flight), you could walk around and on the catwalks above the aircraft to see them from virtually any perspective.
We visited the Annex after spending a few last hours at Gettysburg and the contrast between that battle and the impact of just one aircraft, the Enola Gay, was sobering. In 1863, it took three days, 170,000 men and an unimaginable number of mini balls and artillery shells to kill less than 10,000. 82 years later, it took one aircraft, with one bomb, just a few seconds to kill an estimated 50,000 people. What a stunning change in less than a century.
On a more uplifting note, we can make another comparison with the space program. in 1903, powered flight had yet to be achieved, most people were living on farms and the primary mode of transportation involved horses. But in just 66 years, we had safely and successfully put men on the moon! The 20th century, both good and bad, was an amazing time of innovation and progress.
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