Showing posts with label Air and Space Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air and Space Museum. Show all posts
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Jug
Here's a P-47 Thunderbolt, affectionately known by its pilots and crew as "Jug" because of it's jug-shaped fusalage.A good air combat fighter and a superior ground attack aircraft, the P-47 was the largest single-engine fighter of WWII.
This one is at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Immediately behind the P-47 is the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, and the very aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945.
In the background at right is the Boeing 367-80, or "Dash 80", as the Boeing engineers used to refer to it. The Dash 80 was the prototype for the 707, the first American commercial jet airliner capable of non-stop transatlantic flight.
Labels:
Air and Space Museum,
Aviation,
Canon 450D,
Canon XSi,
Jug,
P-47,
Thunderbolt,
Udvar-Hazy Center
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Enterprise
Space Shuttle Enterprise at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, adjacent to Dulles International Airport.
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