So I'm posting my vacation photos out of order. This was the day after Christmas at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center which houses the Air & Space Museum's annex. They have the SR-71 Blackbird (world's fastest plane), the Enola Gay (dropped the atomic bomb) as well as the Space Shuttle Enterprise and lots of other airplanes.
The B-29 Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
These are the arming plus for the first atomic bomb. You removed the green ones - which kept it unarmed - and inserted the red ones in flight. According to the tour guide, they were found in the plane during its refurbishment.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise. (I saw it at Dulles once before out in a field, years before this museum was built)
It was a static, atmosphere only test vehicle and never flew into space. But its still cool.
Just was trying for the layered overall shot with a lot of airplanes. In there is an AIr France Concorde, which used to fly in and out of Dulles all the time.
As we were leaving, this KLM 777 was landing on 1R at Washington Dulles.
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