PlateMan From United States of America, joined May 2007, 687 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 594 times:
Recently went to National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center out near Dulles. Since I enjoyed reading your TR's so much, I wanted to give back a little and share photos of the amazing museum, below.
I by no means claim to be an expert photographer, but welcome your comments, questions, etc.
I would recommend anyone go to this museum as it truly is amazing, best part is that ---like all Smithsonians-- it is free. Parking is $12, but not bad. It's a little far from DC, but near IAD (Dulles Airport,) Enough writing, on to the photos, again, comments welcome!
They have a tower at the museum overlooking Dulles....
In the right-hand corner, you can see a jet just touched down and it's wheels smoking
Caught a Lufthansa jet taking off, here is in sequence...about 3:35pm EDT on Sunday, where was it going?
A F-14 fighter jet was just brought to the facility
Air France Concorde was promised to the Smithsonian
Concorde engines:
Boat/Jet from WWII
Old Lufthansa Jet...compare it to the earlier take-off photo
SkyGirl From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 431 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 484 times:
Sigh. This is one of those 2 things that I miss about DC...
I can't see the pictures on this computer for some reason (I'm in the domicile, and they prolly have it screened) so I'm assuming you didn't get any pictures of the connie. They had just finished the majority of the maintenance on her before I moved away, so I hope that when I go back I get to see her all fixed up!
...Now they face an even greater danger...Tyrannousaurs in F-14's!!
N776AU From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 531 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 467 times:
Good stuff. I've actually visited the Udvar-Hazy Center twice. It's a cool little museum. I really enjoyed the air traffic control exhibit and the observation tower. It was a very enjoyable trip.
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AAFLT1871 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2290 posts, RR: 21 Reply 3, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 441 times:
Quoting PlateMan (Thread starter): Caught a Lufthansa jet taking off, here is in sequence...about 3:35pm EDT on Sunday, where was it going?
The same place I am going to on Friday night on AF. That was flight #415 headed to Munich Germany.
PlateMan From United States of America, joined May 2007, 687 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 363 times:
Quoting AAFLT1871 (Reply 3): That was flight #415 headed to Munich Germany.
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