Category: USA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Richmond VA

This museum is a really good museum. Lots of work from the greats. Here are just a few highlights.

Triple Elvis, Andy Warhol
Engraving of Russian Empress Catherine the Great
Photographs of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
Imperial Tsarevich Easter Egg, 1912
Young Girls Looking at an Album, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892
Field of Poppies, Giverny, Claude Monet, 1885
Daisies, Arles, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888
Still Life with Bowl, Paul Gauguin, 1891-1893
Jester on Horseback, Pablo Picasso, 1905
Interior (The Closed Window), Henri Matisse, 1918-1919
Pigeon on a Perch, Pablo Picasso, 1960
Paris Street Scene, Richard Estes, 1972
Burger Chef Interior, Ralph Goings, 1972
Idyll of Virginia Mountains, George H. Ben Johnson, 1945

Air & Space Museum

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, Chantilly VA

Different views of the shuttle Discovery.
Astronaut suit
Mercury Capsule
Apollo capsule with landing floats.
Apollo quarantine vehicle.
Various satellites…
Vanguard I Satellite.
Satellite assortment.
The Enola Gay B29 Superfortress Bomber, the first plane to drop an atomic bomb in war. It dropped “Little Boy” over Hiroshima Japan.
Air France Concorde SST plane.
Boeing 707
SR-171 Blackbird, the fastest plane in history.
World War I German plane.
World War I US plane.
F4U Corsair World War II fighter plane.
Boeing 307 Stratoliner “Clipper Flying Cloud”
F/A-18C Hornet
Sikorsky JRS-1
A-6E Intruder
MiG 21
F-14D(R) Tomcat

San Xavier del Bac Mission

Tucson AZ

Mission San Javier del Bac was built under the direction of the Franciscans 1783-1797. The front facade is unbalanced. The left side does not match the right side.
The interior is colorful and really gaudy.
Painting depicting Pentecost.
Painting depicting the Last Supper.
Gaudy ornate.
Looking up to the rotunda.
Not sure what this represents.
Antique Psalter.

Pima Air & Space Museum

Tucson AZ

Pima Air & Space Museum is the largest aviation museum in the world. A visitor can easily spend all day here, but we were here for only about 3 hours.
Douglas A-4C Skyhawk Attack Bomber 1959-1980.
Thiokol Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster.
The Wright Flyer 1903.
British Aerospace Hawk T1A.
McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom.
Grumman F-11A Tiger Blue Angel.
Grumman F-14A Tomcat.
Grumman F-14A Tomcat head on.
Bell UH-1C (UH-1M) Iroquois (Huey).
Air Traffic Control tower cabin.
Air traffic control.
Learjet Model 23.
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. Top speed exceeds Mach 3+, max altitude 90,000+ feet.
SR-71A Blackbird profile.
This American flag was on board SR-71 on its record transcontinental flight March 6, 1990. Los Angeles to Washington DC 64 minutes 20 seconds, 2144.8 MPH.
Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
Consolidated B-24J-90. Transferred to Great Britain under lend-lease, as Royal Air Force KH304 Liberator MK VI. Then assigned to Indian Air Force as HE 877 Liberator MK VI in IAF No. 6 Squadron.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress head on.
B-29 Sentimental Journey.
Ilyushin IL-2M Shturmovik.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis (LIM-2) Fagot.
Vought F4U-4 Corsair.
Boeing 747SP Sofia, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10, Orbis Flying Eye Hospital 1970-2016.
Boeing 747-100 Airliner.
Boeing 747-100 Airliner head on.
Boeing 777-200 Airliner.
Dassault HU-25A Guardian Search Aircraft.
Lockheed P-3B AEW Orion, Airborne Early Warning/Patrol.
Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress Bomber, one of two modified for the X-15 Project.
Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress Bomber head on.
Focke-Wulf FW 44J Stieglitz.
General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon.
Lockheed L-049 (C-69) Constellation Airliner/Transport.
Douglas VC-118A Liftmaster, Presidential Aircraft (Air Force One) used by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson 1961-1967.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Prototype Airliner.
Aero Spacelines B-377SG Super Guppy Cargo Transport 1965-1995.
Convair B-36J Peacemaker Strategic Bomber 1947-1959.
Boeing B-52D Stratofortress Bomber 1956-1983.
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress Bomber head on.
B17 Flying Fortress.
Looking toward the cockpit.
Mockup of Parham Airfield, England.
Diorama: Mission to Berlin 8 March 1944
Target – Erkner VKF Ball Bearing Plant
13th Combat Wing
100th, 390th and 95th B-17 Bomb Groups
Curtiss F6C-4 Hawk.
Beechcraft Model S18D.
Curtiss C-46D Commando Syracuse Shackrat.
Martin PBM-5A Mariner, 1940. This is an early model “flying boat”. These could be equipped with radar, powered gun turrets, wing- and engine nacelle-mounted bomb, depth charge, mine and torpedo packages.
Pereira Osprey II, 1970.