NASM Udvar-Hazy Center

The good news:

This is possibly the best collection of aircraft in the world. Everything from
Burt Rutan's original Vari-EZ (the one that flew with a VW engine until he put a
Continental in it) through a real Concorde to a real Space Shuttle. Pristine,
absolutely pristine displays.


The bad news:

Whoever designed the parking lot entrance ought to be shot.

The promo literature all says it is at the corner of two highways. It ain't.
The idiots that wrote the literature were all locals that KNEW the entrance was
two miles away from that corner. Try and find it. There is no signage.

The displays are on three levels. Try and get between the levels without a lot
of up, down, up, down climbing. Very poor ergonometrics...you'da thought that
this would have been the first order of the building design. It wasn't.

You'da thought that they would have staffed the entrance with people who spoke
at least rudimentary English. Either brush up on your Vietnamese / Cambodian /
Laotian or figure it out for yourself.


Jim


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com