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I'd suggest, if you are taking 28 south to get to this museum, and there's a huge line of cars backed up onto 28 just turn around at US 50 and take the ramp from 28 north.
One nice thing about this museum is that the parkway they built for it removes two traffic lights from 28.
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Originally posted by EdwardC:
Notice the leading edge of the wing is missing. It was used for testing in the Columbia investigation.
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holy crap! A thread where edwardC and I can agree!!!   In all seriousness, there is no better sound in the whole world than a Rolls Royce (or Packard) Merlin at full song. 
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I'll definitely be visiting this when I go to DC later this Summer.
Nice pics! I'm like a kid in a candystore around vintage/unique aircraft...
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How did you get shuttle pics? Is Endeavor on display???
How big does she look in person?
"Fear is the little death."
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Originally posted by Nate'sTour:
How did you get shuttle pics? Is Endeavor on display???
How big does she look in person?
It's not Endeavor, it's Enterprise. Enterprise was a flightworthy-but-not-spaceworthy vehicle (fake main engines, and fiberglass rather than carbon/ceramic tiles) that was "dropped" off the top of a B-747 for approach and landing tests in the late 1970's (given that at some points of its reentry, the shuttle falls three meters for each one meter of forward travel, they kinda wanted to get some actual flight experience before sending one into space), and then was used for static fatigue testing (to verify that the shuttle structure could withstand the bending/torque moments of multiple flights). After that, Enterprise was sent to the Paris Air Show and toured the Eastern U.S. (I saw it at Dulles on the 747 carrier aircraft, maybe in 1980). It was kept in storage at Dulles for years before the opening of the new museum. There are some great photos of Enterprise and other spacecraft at http://grin.hq.nasa.gov.
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I got to meet Joe Allen, one of the astronauts on STS-5, the first operational shuttle flight (where they actually did something)... He's an alumni of my fraternity. It was pretty cool to meet someone who's actually been in space.
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Cool, I'll be there this weekend.
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Originally posted by Nate'sTour:
How did you get shuttle pics? Is Endeavor on display???
How big does she look in person?
Oh! Dumb me,I misread!
I remember the Enterprise. Still an awesome sight.
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Seeing Enola Gay would be surreal and awsome. Too bad Im all the way in Ohio.
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