Dallas Love Field - Balsa Exhibit

One I've been waiting to publish for a long time.  I was in Dallas on criminal justice business back in November of 2008, and pulled into Love Field after seeing a sign advertising an aviation museum.  This was one of the glass-encased exhibits.  After all these years I remembered the subject and angles, finally taking the time to look it up.  The pics above and below were captured by the trusty Fujifilm S7000 and its magical sensor.

Always been very enthusiastic about airplanes, helicopters, and aviation in general...a passion fed as a child by my Uncle Ed, who flew F-4 Phantoms in Vietnam (61 carrier landings), then was part of the Blue Angels team of the '60's (you can look it up), then sold helicopters for Bell.  After he gave the family a tour of the helicopter facility in Fort Worth one day, I began saving pennies to buy one.  Naturally - perhaps even thankfully, looking back on things - that plan never came to fruition.

But the interest has never waned.  Even at the age of 64 I still get caught up in wild-eyed enthusiasm when seeing a bi-plane, helicopter, or an airliner fly overhead...and a sense of nostalgia when it's one of those small high-winged Cessnas I used to fly.  There is simply no man-made object more beautiful than these machines built to whiz us through the sky, even the oldest of the lot: