The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is my favorite museum. Over four years ago, the Smithsonian opened the Udvar Hazy Center in in Chantilly, VA which features a number of exhibits they couldn’t fit in the Air and Space Museum on the Mall. I have always wanted to go to Udvar Hazy Center, but I had never gotten around to it until Saturday when my parents were visiting my wife and me. Below are some picture of our trip to the Museum.

SR-71 Blackbird

The exhaust of the SR-71s Pratt & Whitney J58-P4 engines. These powered the SR-71 to a world speed record of 2,193 mph and allowed it to set the altitude record of 85,068 feet in sustained flight.

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

Space Shuttle Enterprise

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