Airplanes, airplanes, airplanes!

While traveling to Vermont to the telescope maker's conference, I decided to stop and visit the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.  The museum has a spectacular collection of aircraft, most of which are indoors in hangars.  Those airplanes are tough to photograph because there are so many of them so close together.  So the top photograph is the view you see when you enter the museum lobby, where you can see all these airplane models hanging from the ceiling.  It is a stunning sight.  And the lead aircraft is a B-25 Mitchell, in case you were curious.  There a few airplanes on display outdoors, many the worse for wear.  I photographed this Grumman Tracer, because it was made on Long Island many years ago, and it has seen better days.