Wednesday, June 8, 2011

D.C. trip part 5

We went to the Steven Udvar Hazy Center. It had a lot of airplanes, gliders, and gondolas of hot air balloons. Not to mention helicopters, models, artifacts, and uniforms. I took pictures of all the cool airplanes. They are below.













Beechcraft King air 350 (above)







Messerschimdt 163 Komet ( above)







German WWI biplane (above)





We also went on a tour. The tour guide told us that in their collection, they had a plane that was the same model as Hitler's plane. He also told us how the Enola Gay chose bombing targets. We also learned that the Aichi Seiran thing was meant to attack San Diego. They tried to do this with huge submarines and catapults on them. Over all, the tour was pretty interesting.







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