Smithsonian Aerospace Museum

Go through the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum.
Under the cut - a small solyanka photos with brief explanations.
In the photo you can see somewhere a third of the museum. In the foreground





plane that killed 200 thousand people (66 thousand at once, the rest later)





Self-portrait



SR-71. Holds the current world speed record.



Biplane. World Records is not available.



But there is a chic kulemet.



Bright future Air Force profile.



Bright future Air Force from the front. Yeah - X-35.



Preflight shuttle service.



Tour



Pratt & Whitney JSF119, aka power plant prototype bright future as an Air Force F-35



fan



+ Fan drive motor



Closeup



Motor and the drive



Engine



Larger



Beautiful thing, though?



SM-3 missiles



LEAP KKV - prototype missile warhead which stands on some SM-3. Remember that the Americans shot down a satellite in 2008? There was just LEAP KKV



NASA's New Horizons, which now flies to Pluto (in 2015 there will be.)



Hangar where ready to show exhibits. I honestly hoped here to see the shuttle Discovery :) naive. Hopefully by the end of the year, he still appeared in a number of exhibits, especially for such a case I will go back to the museum



Very near the airport and planes fly low
fucking




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