- ISBN13: 9780060851552
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Experience the thrill of flying some of the world’s most important airplanes and spacecraft. Best Of The National Air And Space Museum provides unprecedented access to the most popular museum in the world. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum hosts more than 9 million visitors a year, and the newly opened Dulles Center –three football fields long and ten stories high – is a phenomenon in its own right: in the first week it was opened, some 250,000 pe… More >>
Best of the National Air and Space Museum
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#1 by Stephen Rustad on July 2, 2010 - 9:11 pm
I recently visited the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. It was the first time I’d been there since they moved into their current facility in the mid-1970’s. It was breathtaking. The best way to describe the effect of walking in the main entrance is to envision the bedroom of a boy who hangs model airplanes from the ceiling. Only at the NASM, the “models” hanging from the ceiling are full-size. I was a model-building boy in the 1950’s, and my favorites were planes I’d built from kits. Unfortunately, the museum was undergoing some of its regular updating and a few of my favorite planes weren’t on view, such as the F89 Super Saber. Fortunately, that plane and most (if not all) the permanent collection are profiled in the Best of the National Air and Space Museum. If at all possible, visit the museum. If you can’t get there, buy the book. Actually, buy the book in either case. You won’t be disappointed.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by James L. Ellison on July 2, 2010 - 11:28 pm
Great photograghs with well written copy. This book makes me want to go to this museum and see first hand the items displayed. Highly recommend!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Wavezz on July 3, 2010 - 12:01 am
i’m an engineer- worked rocket motors, and various satellite programs. this book was recommended by associate after visiting the museum at Langley. The pics are super, with short descriptions, and moderate on the tech. It’s an amazing pulse of this wild history, and mostly is from America’s lineage. St. Louis, Mercury, Atlas, and up to current Shuttle. There’s also the SST, and unique turn of the century early birds. A fine read to be shared with a youngster (my son 10, digs it), or for the history or engineering buff. amazon has it cheaper than at the museum.
Rating: 5 / 5