AFE May/June 2012 : Page 18FACILITIES AMERICA 2012 NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM, STEVEN F. UDVAR-HAZY CENTER The Offi cial Facilities Tour of AFE’s Facilities America 2012 The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, comprised of two phases and over 760,000 square feet, near Washington Dulles Interna-tional Airport is the companion facility to the Smithsonian on the National Mall. The facility provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. Phase one of the facility, completed in 2003, comprises the Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar. The Boeing Aviation Hangar is 103 feet high, 986 feet long and 248 feet wide at floor level. It has a whopping 293,707 square feet of floor space. The James S. McDonnell Space Hangar measures 80 feet high, 262 feet long and 180 feet wide. It has a total floor area of 53,607 square feet. Phase two of the facility, substantially completed in 2011, is over 400,000 square feet in size and contains the Mary Baker Engen Res-toration Hangar, the Air and Space Archives Division, the Collections Processing Unit and the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory. A small portion of the Hazy Center’s vast col-lection includes: • The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfor-tress that dropped the fi rst atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan • The orbital spacecraft, Space Shuttle Discovery The Boeing Aviation Hangar • A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft • An Air France Concorde supersonic airliner • The Boeing 367-80 jet transport, which was the prototype for the Boeing 707 • The only surviving Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the ex-Pan Am Clipper Flying Cloud • The only surviving German Heinkel He 219 Uhu nightfi ghter • The only surviving German Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet bomber • One of three surviving German Bachem Ba 349 Natters • The only surviving Japanese Nakajima J1N1 Gekko • One of two surviving Boeing P-26 Peashooter fi ghters • Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter, prototype of the F-35 Lightning II • F-14 Tomcat fi ghter involved in the Gulf of Sidra incident • The primary special-effects miniature of the “Mothership” used in the fi lming of Close Encounters of the Third Kind • A piece of fabric from the LZ 129 Hindenburg that survived the Hindenburg disaster The National Air & Space Museum, Steven F. Udar-Hazy Center is located in northern Vir-ginia at 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, Virginia 20151. Visit the Center online at http://airandspace.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy. The Space Shuttle Discovery Exterior View of the Main Entrance CLIMBING THE HILL: ADVOCATING FOR YOUR ISSUES INSIDE THE BELTWAY Ed Barks leads communications training work-shops for executives who want to enhance their reputations, and for organizations that want to achieve their long-term business goals. He is the author of The Truth About Public Speaking: The Three Keys to Great Presentations and a member of ASAE’s Consultants Section Council. To learn more, please visit www.barkscomm.com or call (450) 955-0600 or email at ebarks@barkscomm.com. Government plays a large role in what you can and cannot do. Make no mis-take, your organizational success hinges on your public policy efforts. And suc-cess inside the Beltway doesn’t come easy. That’s why AFE is organizing an Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill as part of the September 10-12, Facilities America Education Forum. As you prepare to “climb the Hill” and speak with your elected offi cials, make sure to prioritize your issues, organize your message, and then back things up with stories. And never leave a meeting with your member of Congress without “making the ask.” Yes, put the question directly to your elected representative whether you can count on his or her support. 18 May | June 2012 ■ Facilities Engineering Journal ■ www.AFE.org Publication List Using a screen reader? Click Here |
