Planes and Rockets and Heroes

Bruce is passionate about anything that flies like birds and planes so a visit to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center was a priority. This companion facility to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, located at Dulles Airport, consists of enormous hangars filled with planes and rockets dating from the early days of air travel. See more at their web site.

P-40 Warhawk "Lope's Hope" with full Flying Tiger paint job

There are rockets too. And the Space Shuttle.

Tours by volunteers leave every half hour. I had a private tour led a retired Pan American mechanic. He looked a lot younger than he was because he had served in WW II, He had loved planes all his life. I learned a lot from.


We ended the day with a trip to Arlington Cemetery.

Arlington Cemetery

Changing of the Guard at the Unknown Soldier Grave

We finished the day with an excellent Mediterranean dinner. Food in DC is GOOD. It is a sunny day in Washington DC. and we are off to the National Archives.