"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
07/05/2014 at 08:02 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
07/05/2014 at 08:02 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 1
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Went to the Air and Space Museum on the mall yesterday...heading out to Udvar-Hazy today
Grindintosecond
> Jayhawk Jake
07/05/2014 at 12:04 |
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Yuoll love Udvar Hazy. Bring soft walking shoes its all concrete and youll blow4 hours at least. the engine history section is wonderful, and I never thought I'd see a great helicopter and ultralight section. the best part is that its not a museum of planes...its a collection of THE planes that did something. Here's a B-29. oh nice...its the one that dropped THE bomb. Here's Do335, It's the only one of it's kind left in existance...thats it no more. Amazing history MAKERS in there.
ttyymmnn
> Jayhawk Jake
07/05/2014 at 12:10 |
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I think I took almost that exact same picture about a month ago. We went to the Hazy Center a couple days later, but I only had about 2 hours there. I still took a crapload of pictures, though, and at some point I'll share them. Have fun! I want to go back and spend an entire day at the Hazy Center, some of it just sitting in the McDonald's and watching the heavies land at IAD.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
07/05/2014 at 12:13 |
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You're exactly right. When I was there recently, I passed a high school kid who was saying, "Yeah, just a bunch of planes." I wanted to slap him. Look, dingleberry, this isn't just some B-29 painted like the Enola Gay, this is THE Enola Gay. This isn't some old 707 painted like the Dash 80, this is THE Dash 80. It's an incredible place, but I guess if you don't get it, then you never will.
AM3R
> Jayhawk Jake
07/05/2014 at 14:01 |
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I live right down the road from the Udvar Hazy. I never get tired of going!
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Grindintosecond
> ttyymmnn
07/05/2014 at 14:04 |
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There's an observation tower you can watch planes from. what's funny is the audio they play of traffic control...is from Atlanta or somewhere else.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
07/05/2014 at 14:11 |
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We didn't do the tower this time. I would guess that the ATC you hear is from a regional ATC center, not a local airport tower.