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Friday, September 1, 2006 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

What a waste to relegate our beautiful 747s to the scrapyard. Why not make art out of them. Or, better yet, make them into houses.

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  • Thursday, August 31, 2006 07:28 PM

    Concorde is #2 (or maybe #3 or 4)

    Love the column, and I have to say that the Air ans Space museum's Udvar-Hazy center on the outskirts of Dulles airport is one of the neatest museums I've ever seen. With only a slight interest in airplanes, having lived beneath the O'Hare incoming flight path in Chicago, I was capitvated there for hours.

    One tiny quibble, though: the star attraction of the museum is the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the test model that was used for landing simulations after being dropped off a 747 (I think). Second place is a competition between the Concorde, the SR-71 Blackbird (it is indescribably cool standing 10 feet from it), and the Enola Gay.

    Again, thanks for writing what might be my favorite column on Salon.

    Cheers,

    Josh Faber

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