The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Air and Space Museum

[AZVAJKU]

Not a Jeep trip but something you must see if you ever have a chance. This is an annex for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in DC, however it is located adjacent to Dulles Airport in Virginia. I actually like it better than the main museum in DC for several reasons. Better aircraft on display and you do not need to mess around with DC traffic, crime, parking issues, and you won’t get any STD’s.

 

[wayoflife]

Awesome pics and beautiful planes and choppers!! Love the F4U Corsair and P-40 Warhawk hanging from the ceiling like they're flying and of course the SR-71 Blackbird is always just gorgeous!

 

[OverlanderJK]

No STD’s?

 

[Disciple Off Road]

Super cool. I was huge into war planes growing up, built every model plane I could find lol I see an F-14 back in there too

 

[Mike Pierson]

Not a Jeep trip but something you must see if you ever have a chance. This is an annex for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in DC, however it is located adjacent to Dulles Airport in Virginia. I actually like it better than the main museum in DC for several reasons. Better aircraft on display and you do not need to mess around with DC traffic, crime, parking issues, and you won’t get any STD’s.

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Awesome! That spitfire is one of my favorite planes. Corsair is pretty bad ass too.

 

[DirtHeadDavis]

Very cool! I too had such a fascination with war planes old and new when I was a kid, so much so I regularly visited the air and space museum in Balboa park down here regularly, as well as another military plane museum that used to be on the Miramar base before Covid forced it to close

 

[TrailHunter]

Love that shit.. Always enjoy the Midway in San Diego and being able to walk up to the fighters on the flight deck.

 

[DirtHeadDavis]

Love that shit.. Always enjoy the Midway in San Diego and being able to walk up to the fighters on the flight deck.

Been there multiple times! So cool. Most recently went in October of last year for a company event back when I worked for a GM dealer, they kept giving me shit for trying to wander out onto the deck rather than stay seated to watch some corporate speech and employee appreciation crap lol

 

[jeeeep]

wow, that takes me back a lot of years; used to go to the DC Smithsonian often when we lived in Maryland.

 

[AZVAJKU]

The museum is divided into sections. This is the modern era.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Some OPFOR aircraft.

A good friend of mine was a Marine F4 pilot and he said shooting down a MiG with an F4 was extremely difficult due to the superior maneuverability of the MiG.

 

[AZVAJKU]

There are some side exhibits that have supporting items to the aircraft.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Some interesting WW2 era aircraft.






The first military jet. Fortunately for us these were introduced too late in the war too make a difference. Hitler insisted that the jet engine be used for bombers instead of fighters. Luckily the guy was a moron. The few recorded encounters that US Airmen had with these indicated that they were terrifying due to their speed.


This looks really familiar.
I have seen something like this recently in use by the US. Those sneaky Germans must have copied us.


This is really cool!

 

[AZVAJKU]

Cold War items.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Space program.

A couple of things struck we as I walked through this section. I’m way too big to fit comfortably inside any of these craft and the food must have sucked.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Now this would have been a little more comfortable. The food still probably sucked but at least my legs would not go to sleep- maybe.

 

[AZVAJKU]

My uncle flew on this and loved it.

 

[AZVAJKU]

This bad boy saved a lot of American lives.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Note name on door.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Ahh MOTECH?

Kalan, I’ve got this motor I need transplanted.

Maybe we can put it in the bed of Jaws?