Was stealth camping in Northern Virginia last weekend.
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-87-mj.jpg)
Trip included a visit to the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center next to Dulles Airport. It's a companion to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum that's in D.C. along side the Mall.
Beside exhibits like an actual SR-71 Blackbird.
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-84-mj.jpg)
The Space Shuttle Discovery
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-36-mj.jpg)
And planes of every type
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-04-mj.jpg)
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-81-mj.jpg)
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-28-mj.jpg)
Is the alien mothership model used in the movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-37-mj.jpg)
If you look closely at the model you might be able to spot Darth Vader's space ship (the original Stars Wars had come out earlier in the same year as Close Encounters)
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-38-mj.jpg)
R2D2
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-39-mj.jpg)
WWII fighters. Probably from the famous
Lost Flight 19.
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-40-mj.jpg)
A VW Van
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-41-mj.jpg)
And a alien graveyard. Reference to Area 51 perhaps?
![](http://larry.wvnet.edu/~van/pics/151009-43-mj.jpg)
Will have to watch the movie again to see if I can spot any of these.