Where can you go to see the prototype of Boeing's 707 airliner, an SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, the space shuttle Enterprise, and the B-29 Enola Gay? Nowhere... yet. But the National Air and Space Museum is busy planning a new home for these and almost 300 other air-and spacecraft, some of which have never been publicly displayed. Named the Dulles Center, it should be open to the public by December 2003. The Dulles Center will be located on the south edge of Washington Dulles International Airport, near the intersection of Routes 28 and 50, close to the border of Virginia's Fairfax and Loudoun counties. Designing the facility has been a massive undertaking—plans for the buildings alone are spread out over 1,400 pages of drawings, each one of which must be carefully reviewed. Every detail has been included, even the proverbial kitchen sink.
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