MACKAY trophy elevating early flight #airplane #art (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)

Douglass dauntless flowing lines above #airplane #design #art (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)

Fantastic detail on the early wood wind tunnel #model for the Curtiss NC #airplane #art #design

Today, a tour of the #restoration hanger… So fantastic to see this important work up close! #airplane #design #art (at Udvar-Hazy)

Spending some time with Jack Northrop’s FlyingWings. It’s to bad all of these were scraped… Would love to see one in person! (from A History of Jack Northrop’s Visionary Aircraft) #airplane #art #metal

The inner workings of these beautiful engines. #airplane #art

A paper airplane by intrepid visitor laying in a large rocket. Not good museum practice but an excellent indicator of scale! #airplane #rocket #design

Engines are like snowflakes #airplane #design

Blackbird #airplane #design (at National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian)

Same designer as the blackbird… Talk about a carrier arch! #airplane #design (at National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian)

The Concorde. I remember this aircraft well as a child. The idea of going so far and so fast.. #airplane #speed #design (at National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian)

Streamline #design hanging above me in NASM #America by Air exhibition #airplane #art (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)