Since Curtis has been working as a Copper Engineer Consultant for the past year, he has not been home very often. So we decided to take two weeks and go to Washington DC and Viriginia. Our first stop was the National Air & Space Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (part of the Smithsonian Museum near Dulles Airport) - that was a mouthful! Anyway...it was great. There were planes from day one! Clear back to before the Wright Brothers, plus their stuff. I have posted just a few highlights below. Notice I am wearing pants and a jacket! So great since it wasn't 117 degree weather we left in Arizona!
Sandi in front of the Air & Space Center. The pieces to each side of me are airplane wings. On them are engraved flying squadrons and their crews over a huge period of time (can't remember).
Here is the Enterprise (great name!!!) Space Shuttle. This never went into space. It was used to practice being carried on a 747, and landing after re-entry from space so they knew if it would work or not.
The yellow plane was the first commercial plane built for carrying passengers by Boeing.
The white plane is an original France Concord plane.
This silver plane is the actual Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb in Japan.
Every plane during war time is usually given a name by their crew. What I didn't know
is that the pilot of the Enola Gay named this plane after his mother.
This is a mustang fighter plane. Just like the one the crashed into the crowd in Reno NV while we were gone. Curtis loves this plane. Great art work!
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