Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   MM Forget Maxine Check This Date:   7/20/2017 7:53:45 PM

In the interest of full disclosure I haven't been to the one at Wright-Pattern, but have you been to the one by Dulles?  I agree the one downtown on the Mall is nothing but tourists shoulder to shoulder and I never go there nor do I take any guests or family there.  The Udvar-Hazy location is magnificent - SST, prototype Boeing 707, F-35 (with its drive train separated so you can see how the one engine drives the forward and rear fans), even the gondola Felix Baumgartner jumped out of at 100K+ feet to break the sound barrier in free fall. Well worth the ten or fifteen dollars it costs to park, entry is free.