.....A chap who goes by the name of 'armyjunk' posted these 101 photos of various aircraft displayed at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Top shelf quality throughout. I've gone back and forth on them a few times to pick up things I might have missed.
My favorite is the orange and black trimmed (F3F "Flying Barrel"?) with the name GULFHAWK painted on it's side. Quite an eye catcher.
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blooming heck, that place has a bit of everything!!
yes i know i cant spell half the time! Thank you kindly to those few who pointed that out
I'm partial to the Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Clipper Flying Cloud".
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Awesome pictures, that place is definitely a must see when going to Washington.
Ok got my breath back. I visited DC many many years ago and in two days didn't even scratch the surface of the museums there. I still want to take two weeks and wear out a pair of sneaks!! Thanks for the link.
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Beautiful collection of aircraft. Would really love to see the RF-8G and F-14 in more attractive paint jobs than those boring low-vis schemes they're wearing.
Geez, the question could almost be: what don't they have there?! (Hmmm, actually, I didn't see any MirageOriginally Posted by stiz
blooming heck, that place has a bit of everything!!)
I also was feeling dizzy looking at all these pictures. I guess some of the old planes may be replicas (?), but it's still just AMAZING... I loved the still very weathered P-38, the B-29, the N1K2-J Shiden KAI, the Aichi M6A1 Seiran, the Do 335 Pfeil, the Nakajima J1N1, the He 219 fuselage, the Hellcat, the F-105, the Vought OS2U Kingfisher, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner... and so many others...
It's a Grumman G-22 "Gulfhawk II", civilian aerobatic variant of the F3F, the only one built.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/a...d=A19490059000
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Goodness!
How can so many famous, classic, actual planes be located in one single location......? How???
Where is this place!?
They have a Stratoliner, SR-71, a Concorde, Connie, famous air racers, prototypes...
Thanks for the heads up Brad. I'll have to find out where this place is and plan a visit.
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That place has changed since I was last there. That explains the "Enola Gay" I thounght it was a different B-29 painted up to look like the Enola Gay. When I visited the Museum they only had the fuselage of the Enola Gay in a special exhibit on dropping the Atomic bomb.
Excellent pictures. Thanks for the link.
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I was in DC a couple of years ago for 4th of July. And made it a requirement to visit the NASM and Udav-Hazy Center before flying home. I'll just say that in three days I don't believe I was able to see everything there was to see.
Udvar-Hazy is located on the grounds at Dulles International, outside of DC. It's the long-awaited new "wing" of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, built to accomodate some of the planes the museum has restored at their Silver hill MD facility . Most of these projects have been rolled out to UH, and the phase 2 plan for the site at Dulles is to create a restoration hangar right there on site.
Heck you could fly straight into Dulles and never see DC...
There isn't a replica in the place. They are all original aircraft. And you should see what all they have stashed back in their storage facility in Maryland awaiting restoration. The stuff of legends (Ta 152H, Ho 229, last surviving aircraft from the Pearl Harbor attack,........).Geez, the question could almost be: what don't they have there?! (Hmmm, actually, I didn't see any Mirage
I also was feeling dizzy looking at all these pictures. I guess some of the old planes may be replicas (?), but it's still just AMAZING... I loved the still very weathered P-38, the B-29, the N1K2-J Shiden KAI, the Aichi M6A1 Seiran, the Do 335 Pfeil, the Nakajima J1N1, the He 219 fuselage, the Hellcat, the F-105, the Vought OS2U Kingfisher, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner... and so many others...
They've been collecting aircraft since at least WWII.
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So true Willy. In August 1995, I went to Andrews AFB for the annual airshow. Since Silver Hill was right in the back door. I went over to see the facility not expecting to see anything in the warehouse and I didn't, then. It was late and they were almost ready to close the doors. But a modeling friend I know worked there and he told me to come back in the AM and we'd take a tour. Man, you would not believe the stuff in that place. Much of the work on the planes I saw has been done and the planes are now at U-H, but that place looks like my attic full of unfinished models, there is no way in one's lifetime to do them all! And they are still collecting! There are several good air museums in VA, the Virginia Aviation Museum at Richmond International has the largest collection of Golden Age planes you can find, the one in Hampton should not be overlooked either. But by far, the best museum in the Tidewater area has nothing to do with aircraft. If you're ever in the VA Tidewater area, do not, and I stress this, miss a visit of the Mariners' Museum. Allow two days. I spent half a day looking at the intricate models alone.
Bill, ya need a trip to the right coast for a change of scenery. All museums are better visited during week days in lieu of the weekend, especially U-H and the Mariner's Museum. My oldest son and I are museum hounds, we'll go to everyone we see. I would not put it beyond my oldest to major in some field where he could work in or for a museum, he loves them that much!
Oh, and being a complete scrag hound for anything about the American Civil War, while in Richmond, go to the Museum of the Confederacy. Lots of artifacts in the Old Dominion, y'all come visit.
Caz
Oh yes, Richmond! When I was stationed in Norfolk just before I retired from the Navy, I went up there a few times on Saturdays and visited the Museum of the Confederacy and the Confederate White House. Also big on my weekend excursions were Colonial Williamsburg and both Jamestowns (the original and the recreation). I spent a lot of Saturdays at those places.
And I loved the Mariner's Museum as well. If I'd have been more into aircraft back then, I'd have had to go on up to DC as well.
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