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NASA Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 at the Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian, Chantilly Virginia #space #shuttle #NASA #SpaceShuttle #smithsonian #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #Z9 #museum #Virginia #Udvarhazy

High-temperature reusable surface insulation on Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 showing the direction of travel on the borosilicate coating Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian, Chantilly Virginia #space #shuttle #NASA #SpaceShuttle #smithsonian #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #Z9 #museum #Virginia #Udvarhazy

NASA Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103, Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian, Chantilly Virginia #space #shuttle #NASA #SpaceShuttle #smithsonian #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #Z9 #museum #Virginia #Udvarhazy

BAC/Aerospatiale #concorde at @airandspacemuseum #chantilly #va #usa #washingtondc #avgeek #aviation #airplane #aircraft #supersonic #travel #udvarhazy #photography (Instagram 23.07.2016)

SR-71 Blackbird.

The SR-71 Blackbird was a high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft -- or spy plane -- made by Lockheed and used by the Air Force from the 1960s to the 1990s. On display at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Air and Space Museum, in Chantilly, Va., arranged by D.C. Science Writers Association. 13 July 2024

#Photography #Aircraft #Spacecraft #SpaceShuttle #Discovery #Smithsonian #AirAndSpaceMuseum #UdvarHazy

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Head-on view of the SR-71 spy plane, a retired reconaissance aircraft on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

If I was more jingoistic, I might refer to this series of photographs as “the ultimate in FAFO”, but instead it’s just deeply sobering to have finally completed my circuit of an incredibly dark time in our species’ #history.

(One whose long shadow still reaches to the present day, naturally. Given how many times we came close to repeating this mistake, it’s a miracle we’re all still here to get wiped out slowly by climate change instead.)

#UdvarHazy #Smithsonian #PearlHarbor #Hiroshima #Japan

Photo of Pearl Harbor National Monument in Hawai’i. A tranquil bay with a big white monument in the middle, and a US flag at half staff.

Photo of the Enola Gay, in person, held in a hangar at the Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington. Big, shiny bearer of a miniature sun, and a monument to our hubris.

Photo of the Enola Gay (wide-angle lens). Without the name visible, it just looks like a big beautiful 1930s era prop plane.

Photo of the destroyed-yet-preserved building at ground zero in Hiroshima, Japan. The modern cityscape is visible in the far background. A lovely city to visit, its vibrancy a testament to how life goes on even after unimaginable violence.

Unmasked indoors! ... if you count enormous, thoroughly air conditioned hangars indoors, anyway. (Thankful for my #Aranet4 though.) #UdvarHazy #Smithsonian #AirAndSpaceMuseum

Photo of the fuselage, wing and tail of Space Shuttle Discovery.

Photo of the underwing, landing gear and an engine nozzle of Space Shuttle Discovery.

Photo of the rear of Space Shuttle Discovery. Baby got back.

Fastest (known) air-breathing human-piloted production aircraft.

FunFact: We still don’t (officially) know how fast it could fly.

#UdvarHazy #SR71 #Blackbird

Front-on photo from above of an SR-71 Blackbird

This is the pointy bit that goes in front

#UdvarHazy #SpaceShuttle #Discovery #SR71 #Blackbird

Straight-on photo of the Space Shuttle Discovery

Photo from the front and slightly above of the SR-71 Blackbird

Fire comes out here

#UdvarHazy #SpaceShuttle #Discovery #SR71 #Blackbird

Photo of the Space Shuttle main engines taken from slightly below.

Photo of the backside of an SR-71 Blackbird.

BAC/Aerospatiale #concorde at @airandspacemuseum #chantilly #va #usa #washingtondc #avgeek #aviation #airplane #aircraft #supersonic #travel #udvarhazy #photography (Instagram 23.07.2016)

#DunePartTwo is a lot of #movie, in a very good way, and the most visceral sonic experience I've had since I saw #Inception, also in #IMAX (it has a super-low bass you can't hear or feel without a decent #audio setup), at #UdvarHazy in 2011.

Great story and beautiful cinematography (like #DunePartOne) combined with full IMAX sound – this is a great #film experience.

After seeing many movies there, I was thinking maybe the sound at the #MODS #AutoNation #theater was subpar.

I was wrong.

Dornier Do-335 #avgeek #ww2 #airandspace #udvarhazy #aircraft #airplane #plane @airandspacemuseum #photography (Instagram 18.07.2016)

Scary spaceman

#UdvarHazy #WorkParty
#Photography #Saturday

A opaque-helmeted space suit, lit from below in garish colors.

Dornier Do-335 #avgeek #ww2 #airandspace #udvarhazy #aircraft #airplane #plane @airandspacemuseum #photography (Instagram 18.07.2016)

The #Smithsonian #UdvarHazy #Imax theater is 8-minutes from work, so this is as good a place as any to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. One of my two favorite #MCU characters, wrapping up the story arc,... How could I not like this? @jamesgunn #GotGVol3

Dornier Do-335 #avgeek #ww2 #airandspace #udvarhazy #aircraft #airplane #plane @airandspacemuseum #photography (Instagram 18.07.2016)

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