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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