Today I’m kicking off another new series called “Three Things…” I will do my best to keep these brief and pack in three key points or “ah ha!” moments for the regular and curious GoDC readers. This first one will be about Dulles Airport and I’ll list three things that you (probably) don’t know about it. We already posted twice ... Read More »
Dulles International Airport is one of only two federally owned airports in the country (National Airport being the other). Some find it to be an ugly monstrosity. Others find it to be an architectural masterpiece — I am firmly in this camp — however, many functionality compromises were made in the name of aesthetics. Eero Saarinen, the notable Finnish architect, ... Read More »
May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Long Island, heading east in the Spirit of St. Louis and lands in Paris about 33 hours later, completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Almost exactly 47 years later, on May 24th, 1976, two supersonic commercial flight are heading west at twice the speed of sound. One from Paris ... Read More »
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