Udvar-Hazy Center

Udvar-Hazy Center

The front entrance

Frst view of the main exhibition floor

The SR1 Blackbird

SR1 Blackbird with a view of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in the background

I was fascinated by the WW-II airplane engines

The Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb

Enola Gay seen from the walkway above

Enola Gay cockpit

I always thought this was what they based the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon on

The sheer size is amazing holding a Concorde, the first commercial supersonic plane which I used to watch land at the Dulles airport when I worked at AOL

View of the exhibition hall

Concorde front view

And then there was the Enterprise space shuttle

Enterprise