Air and Space Museum (pics!)

Jotun · **Air and Space Museum (pics!) -** 08-22-2005, 10:09 PM

So my dad and I went on a road trip to visit colleges and stuff down south by Washington DC, and we decided to stop by the new Air and Space Museum about 20 miles out of DC. It was just built about 2 years ago. Both my dad and I are avid fans of planes. He's been into them since he was a kid, and passed all his interests onto me. Here's a link to my livejournal entry with A LOT of pics of my trip and a lot of planes.

To walk into the museum, walk about 100 feet, look down over the railing to see the SR-71 Blackbird....it makes your jaw drop. And to see the Enterprise, pretty sweet. The fully assembled Enola Gay was there. Its amazing to see the plane that changed history.

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More pics and story.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/biaxid ... tml#cutid1

KTOG · 08-22-2005, 10:13 PM

Cool pics!

I have some friends that go to AU.

[DAS REICH] Blitz · 08-22-2005, 10:17 PM

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after the actor??

Jotun · 08-22-2005, 10:21 PM

no, there's a town outside of DC named Chevy Chase, the actor is just a coincidence.

tomxtr · **Re: Air and Space Museum (pics!) -** 08-22-2005, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jotun

So my dad and I went on a road trip to visit colleges and stuff down south by Washington DC, and we decided to stop by the new Air and Space Museum about 20 miles out of DC. It was just built about 2 years ago. Both my dad and I are avid fans of planes. He's been into them since he was a kid, and passed all his interests onto me. Here's a link to my livejournal entry with A LOT of pics of my trip and a lot of planes.

I've been there too. Out by Dulles for the DC area people who haven't been. Very cool.

As a Terp Alum, what most people don't realize is that even though it is a big school, the colleges are not the big. I was in the business school and it was pretty much the same people in all my classes after the 1st two years. True, you do have a few freshman classes with 200-300 people, but that goes away after sophomore year.

JMU and AU are excellent schools as well. The only drawback to JMU in my mind is there is no metro stop and easy access to DC unlike AU and U of MD. Anyway, good luck with your decision.

Jotun · **Re: Air and Space Museum (pics!) -** 08-22-2005, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by tomxtr

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Originally Posted by Jotun

So my dad and I went on a road trip to visit colleges and stuff down south by Washington DC, and we decided to stop by the new Air and Space Museum about 20 miles out of DC. It was just built about 2 years ago. Both my dad and I are avid fans of planes. He's been into them since he was a kid, and passed all his interests onto me. Here's a link to my livejournal entry with A LOT of pics of my trip and a lot of planes.

I've been there too. Out by Dulles for the DC area people who haven't been. Very cool.

As a Terp Alum, what most people don't realize is that even though it is a big school, the colleges are not the big. I was in the business school and it was pretty much the same people in all my classes after the 1st two years. True, you do have a few freshman classes with 200-300 people, but that goes away after sophomore year.

JMU and AU are excellent schools as well. The only drawback to JMU in my mind is there is no metro stop and easy access to DC unlike AU and U of MD. Anyway, good luck with your decision.

thanks. I loved AU and JMU, only thing is AU is $38,000 a year. I'm not that rich, but its possible. JMU is better in the tuition situation, and its more open. Both have its advantages. The thing about the metro thing, I'm not going to be travelling much anyway. JMU is 5 hours away, AU is about 2.5 hours. I still have senior year...

Madmartagen · 08-22-2005, 11:12 PM

can barely make out the SR71, do they not let you use flash photography? that must have been fun, did they have any WW2 planes?

Coleman · 08-22-2005, 11:21 PM

i have two friends going to JMU and AU next year. They loved the campuses. JMU has a good music program biggrin:

Unknown_Sniper · 08-22-2005, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Madmartagen

can barely make out the SR71, do they not let you use flash photography? that must have been fun, did they have any WW2 planes?

you didnt look at his pictures did you?

Jotun · 08-23-2005, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Madmartagen

can barely make out the SR71, do they not let you use flash photography? that must have been fun, did they have any WW2 planes?

if they had the Enola Gay....of course they had plenty of ww2 planes. they also had ww2 missles and rockets, such as the v1 rocket. pretty sweet.

I used a flash, but its basically a big hangar. A flash from that distance in an open space can only do so much.

Himmler · 08-23-2005, 01:56 AM

thats sweet dude, i love planes. i went to one in utah a few years back, it was kick ass. the fucking b52 is HUUGE

Poseidon · 08-23-2005, 02:12 AM

Awesome pics mate. Theres like only 4 concordes in museums now. One in scotland, that one, one in france and not sure about the last.

No SR71's here in the UK though - quite unfortunate that i havent got to see one. B2 bombers cannot land here either. I went to RAF Fairfords airshow (biggest airshow in europe) and the B2 does a few flypasts and heads back to the US. The F117 looks sweet in real life too. My connections gave me VIP treatment to look around the hurcules, C17, and Boeing 747!

9mm BeRetTa · 08-23-2005, 08:09 AM

I visited UD a couple weeks ago and I actually thought the dorms looked pretty good. 16000 is a bit bigger than I was orignally looking for but I liked the campus and the new $16mil student center place. ed:

I'll have to check out JMU, in those pics you took it looks like a really nice campus.

Jakke · 08-23-2005, 09:44 AM

Jotun · 08-23-2005, 10:03 AM

[quote="9mm BeRetTa":26653]I visited UD a couple weeks ago and I actually thought the dorms looked pretty good. 16000 is a bit bigger than I was orignally looking for but I liked the campus and the new $16mil student center place. ed:

I'll have to check out JMU, in those pics you took it looks like a really nice campus.[/quote:26653]
definitely check out JMU, but take the tour too. My dad and I walked around campus the night before and thought it was beautiful, but then the next morning we had a tour, and we saw a lot more parts of the campus that we didnt the night before. its really nice.

i'm looking for schools with a good science department, cuz im majoring in biology, both schools look like they have decent programs. plus JMU has a lot of school spirt, which i like.