Brilliant capture, the clarity, the light, the composition brings us a fantastic image of this Kitty hawk, great job!

This is done superbly! Excellent use of the lighting conditions, and such fantastic detail! Awesome! tigs=^..^=

What a beaut! I love the nose art. And great angle at the wing's curve.

What are the tray like rectangles on the floor?

The trays catch the grease/oil drips.

---About 40 minutes from my house is an air museum housing several dozen antique aircraft---

I'm to a certain extent glad that I don't live that near, Ted, because I suppose that this museum was frequented by me almost permanently, so that there wasn't any time left to do other essential things as well, ☺ .

Very interesting and fine shot. I love it very much!

And how long have you been living there? I find this to be a colloquial phenomenon--people who live in close proximity to a tourist attraction, like a museum, often do not visit it because they figure they will always have time to do so, eventually, but visiting just seems to slip away. For many years I was associated with a major museum and constantly ran into people who lived in the city all their lives and never once walked through the museum doors, even though out-of-town (and out-of-state) visitors raved about it. This is a classic WWII beauty and I can see plenty more classics in the background. I'm guessing your back was up against another aircraft and that was the reason for the close crop?

-Nik

What a beauty! And the shot is good, too!