From our Room & Daryl and her assistant, Michelle
DC
From our Room & Daryl and her assistant, Michelle
Zoran & Tammy
The American Indian Museum
The WWII Memorial
The Korean War Memorial
The Capital in the Fall
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & the Changing of the Guard
Arlington Cemetery at Night
Iwo-Jima Memorial
Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles houses the
Smithsonian's planes not on loan.
The size of three football fields and six stories tall, the museum contains the
largest collection of planes in the world. The aviation
hangar contains three levels of aircraft, two levels suspended from the
building’s huge trusses and a third on the floor. The suspended aircraft have
been hung in their typical flight maneuvers.
The Concorde, a Boeing 307 Stratoliner from the
1940s, the Enola Gay, the space shutle Enterprise, the tiny Pitts Special S-1C
Little Stinker, a Stearman Kaydet, the Travel Air Pepsi Skywriter (a plane built
in Wichita in 1929 and retired from stunt flights only three years ago), an F4
Phantom Fighter.
are just a few of the planes on display. Many
engines, rockets, satellites, gliders, helicopters, airliners, ultra-lights and
experimental flying machines are displayed. Ultimately, more than 200 aircraft
and 135 large space artifacts will be exhibited, roughly 80 percent of the
national collection.
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, one of the world's fastest aircraft
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt World War II fighter
with the wings of the Enola Gay overhead
The prototype space shuttle Enterprise