Udvar-Hazy Center - Air & Space Museum
My wife and I just returned from a vacation to Washington, D.C. One of our tour stops, of course, was the new Smithsonian Air & Space Museum at Dulles Airport - The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I have some good news and some bad news from the visit.
Let’s start with the bad news. If you visit this museum first it’s likely that you’ll be so impressed that a visit to the “original” Air & Space Museum in the National Mall will be a slight disappointment (and that’s saying A LOT). First impressions are everything! The good news is that the Udvar-Hazy Museum is that good. It’s incredibly impressive.
Where else can you find, under one roof, notable aircraft like an Air France Concorde. The B-29 Bomber “Enola Gay”. The SR-71 Blackbird. The Space Shuttle “Enterprise”. That’s just a start!
When you first walk into the museum, you get that feeling of “this looks like my room when I was a kid. Airplane models hanging from the ceiling.” Only in this case, the airplanes hanging from the ceiling are REAL airplanes!
There is something liberating about the way these airplanes are displayed - in flight, gear retracted in some cases. Amazing stuff.
You must visit this museum when you’re in the DC area. You too, will be stunned by what it offers!
