You never know what you will find when you visit a new museum. This is just one of the surprises we found at the Air and Space Museum.  Look closely. The…

I have mentioned before how it feels to walk among our country’s history of aviation at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum.  That special feeling hits you the moment you walk…

Airplanes are a lot like sports cars. They both have cool cockpits with lots of gauges. The more high performance the vehicle, the more gauges. The cockpit of a Boeing 747…

Aviation is one of those subject that perks my ears. They don’t actually perk, mind you, but it gets my attention. Though I rarely get an opportunity, I love to…

Some of our nation’s finest moments were the Apollo Lunar landings in 1969 and early 1970s. Many of us remember watching the black and white TV images as astronauts walked…

From my earliest memories as a child, I remember wanting to be an astronaut. I still do, but that’s another story. One of my first models I ever built as…