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| The Smithsonian Institutional National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is next to Dulles Airport by Washington, D.C. |
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| It contains lots of interesting aircraft of which I have posted photos of only a few. |
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| This is a Lockheed P-38J Lighting. |
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| The infamous Enola Gay |
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| As you can see, not all of the planes were hung top-side up. |
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| It's hard to see the Horten Ho IIIf under the hangers ventilation shaft. |
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| The tail of the Enola Gay also appears in this photo. In front is a Nakajima JINI-S Gekko "Irving". Right behind it is a Northrop P-61C Black Widow. The yellow plane is a Northrop N-IM. |
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| You can see just how many planes are crammed into this hanger. Many are hanging from the ceiling. All I can say for sure is that the yellow, brown and white Boeing is a 367-80 "Dash-80" and the white, blue and red Air France plane in the background is a Concorde. |
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| Better photo of the Dash-80. The red and white striped wing is on a De Havilland Canada DHC-1A Chipmunk Penzoil Special. |
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| Basket of the Double Eagle II |
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| Beautiful! |
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| For you movie buffs - parks of Traansformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Computer-generated images were used to transform the Blackbird into a transformer. |
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| Looks like I forgot to get photos of the front of this Concorde. |
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| And the star of the show --- the Space Shuttle Discovery! |
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| The gold item above the shuttle and in front of the flag is a TDRSS satellite |
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| Up close you can see the tiles that cover the shuttle. |
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| Click to enlarge. Canadarm along side of shuttle |
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| I should have gotten a photo with people walking by so you can see just how huge the shuttle is. |
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