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[vtrelut]

After Christmas I visited the National Air & Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport (the Stephen Udvar-Hazy Center, just a couple of miles from the airport), and in downtown Washington D.C., at the Mall.

First of all from the Mall, near the Capitol:

Chuck Yeager's Bell XS-1:




Lockheed F-104 Starfighter:


D-558-2:


North-American X-15:






The Spirit of Saint-Louis:


Northrop M2-F3 lifting body:


Howard Hugues' speed record breaking H-1:




And so many other unique and legendary aircraft:












Grumman X-29


WWI crates:




WWII aircraft:














First jets:










A A-4/V2 Rocket, together with a V-1:


The Lunar Module;


Saturn V rocket engine:


Cold war aircraft such as this U-2:


I highly recommend to go to Washington!

[max_thehitman]

FABULOUS Photos!! You don´t know how lucky you are to visit that great museum.
I never got chance to see it.

[vtrelut]

More pictures this time from the Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport. Entrance fees at both NASM locations are... zero! If you enter the Udvar-Hazy hangar for the first time, you may have the sight of your life: a huge hangar, completely full of aircraft (more than 100), from the days of the pioneers, to the space age, through WWI, WWII, the cold war, etc. Absolutely incredible, all of them in one single place: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Enola Gay (the real first atomic bomber in History, not a repainted cousin), an Air France Concorde, a prototype of the Boeing 707, a Lockheed L-1049 Constellation, an Ar-234 Blitz, a Dornier 335, a Shiden-kai, Boeing 307, F-35 prototype, etc.

http://nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy/


Here we go:



































































I've been there 4 times already since 2003, and I will go again.

Happy New Year and best aeronautical wishes!

[vtrelut]

And more from the Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles airport:





























And finally, John Glenn's Friendship 7, the right stuff from the Mall at Washington, DC:



In total at both locations, more than 200 airplanes and spacecraft from all ages, very well preserved and in fantastic settings, with very nice staff, especially the volunteers who guide and inform visitors. THANK YOU GUYS!

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Thank you vtrelut. I was born in Mayland right next to Washington. I was a child about 7 or 8 when I went to the museum last. I really ejoyed the smithsonian air and space museum then. That was a LONG time ago. Thanks to your pictures I finaly get to see what it looks like now. Thank you.

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[Silverback]

thanks guys that was vary cool.

[RogCBrand]

Great pictures!  I've been to the one at the Mall, but didn't have time to go to the one at Dulles which has an awesome variety of planes!  And it is so wonderful to have these and all the other Smithsonian museums totally free!  You can spend a week looking at cool stuff and not spend a penny to do it!

[Stanko-01]

Amazing pics

Gotta visit that museum

[Jafa]

Superb 

[Spinnetti]

Great pics thanks! I somehow lost my SD card after I took pretty much the same pictures....

[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Call me old fashioned but I HATE aircraft hanging from ceilings - Duxford have done the same I think its a terrible way to exhibit planes!!

Great photos tho mate - wish I could afford a visit someday