Aviation Museum

Today we went to the aviation museum.  I've got to say, as a closet mechanical junkie I found this place to be wonderful!  Would I be terrified to actually fly in any one of these?  Absolutely.  But on the ground, all I want to know is how anyone figured out how to make these complicated engines.

 Tomcat engine.

 Beautiful!

Amphibious airplane.  It rather looked like a cartoon.

I may be back with a sketchbook before long.