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Today’s Photo:  The Fast Plane

Today’s photo is another one captured from inside the Air and Space Museum at the Dulles Airport (The Udvar Hazy building).  I am so focused on taking photos when I make a dedicated trip that I tend to miss absorbing what I am actually looking at.  In that process, I also missed the names of most of the airplanes on this trip.  Or then, maybe I was still in awe ate getting to see the Enterprise, the Blackbird and the Enola Gay.  Next time, I make the promise to make a concerted effort to take a pad of paper and write down the description of what I am looking at, but until I am successful, I leave it up to you to help me along.

This is an amazing airplane.  Even though it is only designed to glide, how can it stay in the air.  It took a lot of smart people to figure that out.  I mean they are rocket scientists.  Real rocket scientists.

This is the entrance to the space exhibit at the Udvar-Hazy center.  The view as you enter makes you feel like you are in the presence of something great.  The shuttle Enterprise just sitting there staring you down.

This is one cool plane.  To be in the presence of something of such historical value was awesome.  It was not until just now that I began thinking of what this plane was used for…dropping an atomic bomb.  Surely there is not radiation left in it, but stop and think about it…what if there is; and I was standing just a few feet from it.  I think my hair is falling out.  Wait, sorry, my wife just reminded me I was going bald before…