{"id":189485,"date":"2010-03-21T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/21\/what-i-did-this-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:46:00","slug":"what-i-did-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/21\/what-i-did-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did This Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Enola<\/span> Gay<\/p>\n

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SR-71 Blackbird<\/p>\n

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A rear view of the Blackbird, illustrating how flat it is<\/p>\n

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The Boeing 707 prototype, the Dash 80, in the fugliest<\/span><\/span> color scheme I’ve ever seen<\/p>\n

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Gemini capsule<\/p>\n

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Samuel Langley’s Aerodrome<\/p>\n

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Bell-Boeing XV-15 tilt rotor demonstrator<\/p>\n

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Concorde<\/p>\n

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Space shuttle prototype Enterprise<\/p>\n

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Spotted on the tail of an F-14, Felix the Cat from VFA<\/span>-6<\/span><\/div>\n

I went to the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar<\/span>-Hazy Center<\/a>, located right next to Dulles Airport in Chantilly, VA.<\/p>\n

Charlie’s Cub Scout Pack went there for an outing.<\/p>\n

While is is a most<\/span> impressive collection of aircraft, as a museum, it left me a bit cold.<\/p>\n

Unlike the branch on the Mall in Washington, DC, this was basically just a shed full of aircraft, and the exhibits, such as they were, were basically just afterthoughts.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed myself, but I would much rather go to the DC museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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