Udvar-Hazy Museum, Dulles Airport Virginia

Holger Kranich
I knew that i have to visit this museum! But after your pix, i have definately to go there!!! Thank you for making more than 1 pic from the F-14!

Burkhard D
Awesome!!! An aerospace engineer's Mekka😎

Philip De Keyser
Wow what a collection, thanks for sharing those pix Bill, this is a great museum, greetz Phil

Bill Gilman
I may have some more photos of some of the other aircraft, let me see if I can find them. What I've uploaded so far is not the complete collection from the museum. By the way, the Udvar-Hazy Museum is the "annex" for the National Air and Space Museum that is located on the mall in Washington, D.C. It contains the aircraft that won't fit in the main museum! Also, the restoration facility is also at Udvar-Hazy. I think I have a couple of photos of that. Cheers!

Zimmermaniac
we need to arrange a " scalemates " daytrip 🙂

Bill Gilman
Besides Udvar-Hazy at Dulles and the NASM in Washington, also nearby is the U.S. Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum at Quantico, VA. Lots to do when you're in the DC area!! We will need more than a day!

Bill Gilman
I added two photos to this collection, both are pictures of aircraft that are awaiting final restoration. The photos were taken from a balcony that overlooks the receiving area at the back of the museum. The first is a Curtiss Helldiver, and the second, more interesting, is the only surviving Nakajima Kikka, Japan's first jet fighter. Both were still on their shipping pallet and covered with a clear plastic sheet, but you can make out what they are. Enjoy!

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
There are no "TANKS" :´-( Heul...

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
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Holger Kranich
You´ve gotta go to the Aberdeen proving grounds, there are a lot of tanks!😢

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Overloon (NL) isnt that bad too!Aberdeen,i dream at night from. 🙂

Holger Kranich
I´d give a ball for visiting Kubinka! Overloon is on my "to-do-list"!

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Hö Hö 🙂

Bill Gilman
Holger is right, Aberdeen is the place to go in the US if you like heavy armor. I was there once for work (back in the 90s) and we went "down range" for a live fire muzzle velocity test of the M1 Abrams. The ground shook...Holy Crap!! 🙂

They were also testing a T-72 (I think that was the designation, I'm afraid I don't know my tanks well) which they brought back from Gulf War I.

Burkhard D
There's a nice tank museum at Bovington in the UK...~SW of London

Mike Kryza
Hi Bill - thanks a lot for these nice pics - very fine!!!

Wilfried Bogaerts
I've been to the Overloon Museum a couple of years ago and I was pleasantly surprised! There's also a model shop opposite the museum entrance, DINNISSEN MODELBOUW. The shop is included in the Scalemates database.

Wilfried Bogaerts
Very important, despite located in Holland, the food was excellent! 😉

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
The food is exellent but makes chubby belly,if to much . 🙂

Dirk Heyer
Holy Crap! So many Originals! OMG, and I`m so far away and can`t see all the beauty's!
I`m really jealous.
Thx for sharing the pictures!
Greets
Dirk

Bill Gilman
They're the real thing, too, not replicas! I wish that the entire Horton flying wing glider was there. But at least it is preserved for the future.

Aghis Barberopoulos
Mind blowing collection!

Dave Flitton
Awesome! This is what my son was talking about when he suggested we visit when I go see him in DC

Ludovic
I have visited it this summer. What an awesome souvenir. Thank you for the pics!

Es-haq Khosravi
What a museum! Are these planes all real?!! Nice pix! Thank you Bill!

Martien Lourens
How large is that museum?Man that is paradise

Bill Gilman
Martien, the museum is huge, although not as big as the National Museum of the US Air Force in Ohio. You are right it is paradise! Es-haq, all the planes are the real thing. I believe there is one replica, which is the Wright Military Flyer from 1908. Everything else is real. 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Awesome.

Bill Gilman
Awesome is right. Next time I go back I'll bring a real camera and take some good pictures. I had some more recent photos of the Helldiver restoration, but they were lost by AT&T when I was switching over to a new phone. Bummer.

B
I used to live in Rockville,Maryland and my family went here once in a while! It was awesome!!! My favorite was the Enola Gay. Have you been to the one in DC? They have an amazing collection! They have Apollo 11's Capsule "Colombia" and (what would of been) Apollo 19s lunar lander. (Apollo 18s Lunar lander in in CT) there's also a lot of WWII aircraft,and a whole naval aviation exhibit (my favorite!) it's such a cool museum,if you have time check it out!

B
Also did you know that the weaponeer of Bockscar (Frederick Ashworth) is from Beverly,Massachusetts. That's where I'm from,he went to Beverly High School. That's where I'm going next school year. See: en.wikipedia.org/wik..orth#Project_Alberta

Jermaine Hoskin
I love this place, its 30 min from my house.

Bill Gilman
Yup, I've been to the one on the mall in DC. My son works at Ft. Meade so we visit down there a lot.

Bill Gilman
Any of you guys been to Chino?
Planes of Fame Museum, Chino California USA | Album by Navy Bird
Most of these babies still fly! Including the Zero! Any plane you see indoors with a drip pan under the engine is a flying example.

Karel Struna
been there last year. One of the best museums ever.

John Thomas
I was there this pass April, A Great Place

Adam Carter
Thanks for sharing, thats an amazing collection!

Spanjaard
Never been in US, if I ever do,I will certainly do whatever is needed to do in Dulles.....this place is a gold mine!

Robert Podkoński
Six hours is not enough 😉 I've spent there almost 8 hours, until the battery pack in my camera almost boiled 😉

Spanjaard
LOL 😄

David Taylor
Great collection.