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I had been wanting to see the Space Shuttle Discovery for quite some time. I only live about 3 hours from the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington D.C. This past weekend I finally got the chance and it was glorious! If you don't know, this was the shuttle that carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

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[โ€“] ki77erb 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah the B-29 is a beast! My Grandfather worked on them.

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[โ€“] ki77erb 3 points 1 year ago

Nice shot! I was just reading about how the pilot who dropped the bomb, named the plane after his mom. He just had some Airman paint it on right before the mission.