An aviation celebration

The airborne craft you're seeing aren't models—they're real airplanes hung in a hangar at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, a National Air and Space Museum branch located next to Dulles International Airport. These retired craft are suspended in the company of notable flying machines from every era, like a Blackbird stealth fighter, a Concorde jet, and the space shuttle Discovery.
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