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On December 8, , Samuel Langley made a second attempt to launch his manned aircraft, the Aerodrome.

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The craft was launched by catapult from a houseboat moored on the Potomac River. Like his first attempt, this one was unsuccessful, and the plane again dropped straight down into the river. Manly, was unhurt, but the Aerodrome suffered structural damage and Langley made no more attempts to fly the craft. Regular readers know that I prefer to write about smaller, lesser known, museums, but a Gulfstream trip with a full day off at Dulles offered an opportunity too good to pass up.

This will be the first of two blogs about the Udvar-Hazy Center, and even then, I will only skim the surface of what is on display. Opened in , it is a massive museum , sq ft with a large number of unique and historic aircraft and artifacts. The Smithsonian has always had many more items than they can put on display at the main Air and Space Museum in D.

Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian immigrant who made his fortune in aircraft leasing, set in motion the construction of this new building. The museum is described as being in two large hangars and it is organized loosely into sections, with many overlapping. This beautiful Boeing Stratoliner drew me right in.

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The first flew in and was the first pressurized airliner, ushering in the modern era of passenger aircraft. Only 10 of these beautiful planes were built before the advent of World War II. The lines of this plane may look familiar- the wings, tail, and engines were the same as on the Boeing BC. It was restored in by Boeing employees.

I was really intrigued to get this shot of three generations of airliners: The Boeing Stratoliner, The Boeing , the first really successful jet airliner The De Havilland Comet was first , and the first, and only, successful supersonic airliner, the Concorde.