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Aircrafts on Tucson (1998) and Dulles (2005) Museums

Português:
Sempre me interessei por aviões; certamente, coisa de engenheiro. Interessado, mas não estudioso ou expert. Quando a ocasião se apresenta, não perco a oportunidade de visitar um museu de aviões. Foi assim em 1998, na região de Tucson, no Arizona. Há um museu a céu aberto. A região é propícia pois o ar é muito seco e chove pouco. Há cemitérios (ou depósitos) de aviões não mais utilizados pelos militares ou na aviação civil. Estávamos em Tucson para uma conferência científica e, com meus companheiros Nelson Sadowski e Arnulf Kost, fizemos uma visita a este museu, no qual os aviões estavam dispostos sem maiores cuidados. Em 2005, na região de Washington DC passei um dia no museu de Dulles. É um museu anexo ao aeroporto. Neste caso, é um museu muito bem mantido no qual encontram-se aviões históricos como o Enola Gay bombardeiro B-29, que em 1945 bombardeou Hiroshima com a primeira bomba atômica. Além dos aviões, há também veículos espaciais com ênfase nos ônibus espaciais. Em 2005, havia o ônibus Enterprise, substituído em 2017 pelo Discovery shuttle, que efetuou 39 missões.

English:
Certainly because I am engineer, I am interested on aircrafts, even though I do not consider myself as an expert on the subject. When I have the opportunity, I visit aircraft museums. In 1998, I attended an Electrical Engineering (my area) conference in Tucson, Arizona and, with my friends Nelson Sadowski and Arnulf Kost, we stopped an afternoon at the local airplane museum. It is an appropriate region for this purpose since it is very dry and virtually no rain. There are, in this state, several aircraft cemeteries and deposits for retired civil and military equipment. In this museum the airplanes are disposed without any particular care. In 2005, in the Washington DC area, I spent a full day in the museum annexed to the Dulles airport. In this case, it is a well-maintained museum where there are historic airplanes as, for instance, the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress, related to the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945. There is also space flight equipment as the shuttle program. In 2005, the Enterprise shuttle was present but recently (2017) it is replaced by the Discovery shuttle, which accomplished 39 missions.
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Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles : similar to the European Concorde, but it is another aircraft.
Dulles : similar to the European Concorde, but it is another aircraft.
Dulles : the same as the previous picture (sorry, I could not figure out what it is).
Dulles : the same as the previous picture (sorry, I could not figure out what it is).
Dulles : the Superfortress B-29 (named Enola Gay, from pilot's mother name), which dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Dulles : the Superfortress B-29 (named Enola Gay, from pilot's mother name), which dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Dulles : the Superfortress B-29, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Dulles : the Superfortress B-29, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Dulles : the American Loon missile, a clear copy of the WW II German V1 missile.
Dulles : the American Loon missile, a clear copy of the WW II German V1 missile.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles Museum.
Dulles : the space shuttle Enterprise; in 2017 the Enterprise was replaced by the Discovery shuttle in the museum.
Dulles : the space shuttle Enterprise; in 2017 the Enterprise was replaced by the Discovery shuttle in the museum.
Dulles : the space shuttle Enterprise; built for testing the shuttle program; not equipped for space flights.
Dulles : the space shuttle Enterprise; built for testing the shuttle program; not equipped for space flights.
Dulles : the shuttle Enterprise.
Dulles : the shuttle Enterprise.
Dulles : the space shuttle engine.
Dulles : the space shuttle engine.
Dulles : the Enterprise shuttle.
Dulles : the Enterprise shuttle.
Dulles : the rear part of the Enterprise shuttle.
Dulles : the rear part of the Enterprise shuttle.
Dulles : the astronauts quarantine facility, after landing the moon.
Dulles : the astronauts quarantine facility, after landing the moon.
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