I had been wanting to see the Space Shuttle Discovery for quite some time. I only live about 3 hours from the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington D.C. This past weekend I finally got the chance and it was glorious! If you don’t know, this was the shuttle that carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
I was able to visit that a couple years back. If you’re into aviation even the tiniest bit, I cannot recommend it enough. It’s SUPER cool. Very easy to spend a whole day there. They’ve got some fascinating and extremely historic airframes in there. One of those is the Enola Gay, which is the B-29 which dropped the first atomic weapon ever used in combat on Hiroshima. Definitely experienced some very complex and contradictory feelings while walking around that big bastard.
Yeah the B-29 is a beast! My Grandfather worked on them.
Found one from my visit:
Nice shot! I was just reading about how the pilot who dropped the bomb, named the plane after his mom. He just had some Airman paint it on right before the mission.