Futuristic Ships from the Past

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is by far what the Smithsonia Air and Space Museum should be like. If you're in D.C., skip that moth-eaten museum at the Mall and treat yourself to a visit to the Udvar-Hazy. It's a massive hangar with hundreds of planes (commercial and military), helicopters, rockets and even a space shuttle. One of my favorite parts of the exhibit is this little corner in the space section devoted to science fiction. It has toys from the '30s through '80s as well as neat, old drawings of futuristic space ships. I couldn't resist taking a few photos and posting them (I think these came from Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon cartoons).