Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

On Wednesday, I went up to Fairfax, VA to join my friend, James and his girlfriend, Suzie to go see the new Air & Space Museum at Dulles Airport. It was a wonderfully hot day and the sky was a bit hazy but inside the building was a whole different story. Take a look.


Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (National Air & Space Museum Dulles Airport Branch)


Enola Gay


The plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima


Enola Gay Blurb


Little Butch (for Mac)


The infamous SR-71 Blackbird


Harrier Jump Jet


Harrier's Intake


The Packard Merlin V-1650-7 engine that powered most versions of the P-51 Mustang (just for Mac)





A Japanese captured WWII era jet engine


The largest and most powerful reciprocating aircraft engine in the world, the Lycoming XR-7755-3


Lycoming XR-7755-3


Ahh the beautiful Corsair ... it brings a tear to me eye.





A precursor to the Tomahak Cruise Missle ... little sucker eh?


Close Encounters of the Third Kind's Alien Mothership


Model Makers' Inside Joke - A Tie Fighter


Space Shuttle Enterprise being renovated


Space Shuttle Enterprises' Cockpit


Pan American Airways Dc-8 Thanks Mac!


Sopwith Camel?





Walking Stick made from a Sopwith Camel Flight Stick (especially for Mac)


From the Observation Tower. Yes, we were that close ... of course the 12X zoom helped = )


Dulles Airport (IAD)


James made me take this


Here she is again


NOT a P-51


What a moment


Cooling Off

Acent. What a fitting name.


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