The most impressive museum for me is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Museum outside Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
This building is an addition to the actual National Air and Space Museum in the city. But because the collections of aircraft have not fit inside the original building, then a hangar was built which could accommodate various historic aircraft.
Airplanes displayed include:
- Enola Gay, Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War;
- Space Shuttle Discovery, which runs more space missions than any other space shuttle, and which also carries the Hubble space telescope;
- Lockheed SR-71 supersonic surveillance aircraft, nicknamed "Blackbird", which was often used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War;
- Supersonic Concorde aircraft former Air France airline that used to run transatlantic flights between continental Europe and North America.
- Various types of Japanese and German warplanes are relics of the Second World War which are the last aircraft of their kind;
- The Dassault Falcon 20 jet aircraft used by FedEx's courier company for its inaugural flight;
- Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered airplane that successfully crossed the English Channel in 1979;