And so we begin

The first destination on our road trip to Brooklyn took us to Kilmarnock Virginia, a quiet town right off the Chesapeake Bay. We stayed with our friends Will and Nancy Garvey. Will, who is a huge train enthusiast, built a city replica of Chicago in his garage. Their property lies on what use to belong to the Lees (Robert Lee, see Civil War). Sometime in the 1600s, the Lees settled on some 17,000 acres of land. I can't thank the Garvey's enough for their great hospitality. On our last day there, Will took us out on the boat for a little tour of the Bay. Too bad there wasn't any wind that day, still gorgeous though.
Our next destination would lead us 90 miles north to Dulles Airport where the Hazy Museum is, an extension to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

Garvey Household

Chicago

The Lee Household

The Hazy Museum is a giant hanger which possesses a lot of the world's aviation artifacts. It also offered great lighting for photos. Here we go:

p-51 Mustang

p-38 Lighting

The Enola Gay

German Helicopter for one

Boeing 707. This plane started it all and did a barrel roll on its first test flight.

Concorde

Gorgeous woodwork

A bunch of aerial mapping cameras

Indiana Jones style.

THE:
SR-71 Blackbird. mean.

F-14 Tomcat. This plane had one Mig kill in an engagement over Libya.

Aerial Machine Guns


Saturn V F1 Rocket Engine, the most powerful liquid fuel engine ever made.

Enterprise, the first shuttle.


Apollo capsule egress trainer. The flotation ring and balloons are from Apollo 11

The next day we ventured to the Air and Space Museum in D.C. Hold on to your butts:

Friendship 7-Mercury 3

Apollo 11

Gemini IV

Apollo 11 hatch

X-15. mean.

The Wright Flyer

Spaceship One & X-1

Spirit of St. Louis

ME-109

Slowly unpacking.