Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
i was there yesterday and I did not see a 747...was it outside somewhere maybe? There was a 707 and the concorde but no luck on the 74...that would be a bummer if I missed it, wasnt inside though, hard to "miss" a 74
If you saw the Concorde and 707, you must have been at the Udvar-Hazy annex at IAD.
The new gallery vagabond is talking about will be at the NASM location on the Mall. I'm glad they're getting a new gallery as some of the stuff that's been there for a while is getting kind of stale.
When I was younger I got to visit the Paul Garber restoration facility and see aircraft being prepared to get put on display. I even got to stick my head inside the Enola Gay's fuselage
. I don't know if they still do tours of the facility, but it's definitely worth looking into.