Originally Posted by
VABay
The Space Museum is fascinating displaying all sorts of aircraft from a very impressive spy plane to an old prop passenger plane. There is a cafeteria of sorts, very expensive, but a place to eat. This is definitely your best option. IAD has nothing of interest...very boring airport....and little more than four hours in DC would, in my view, not be worth the trouble. Hope it works out as you would like!
I didn't find the cafeteria to be
that expensive... and even if it were, with free admission I don't mind subsidizing things a bit with (possibly overpriced) food.
Some of the volunteers are incredible! Lots of interesting background stories, and if you're (un?)lucky, you'll get the guy I did who made it sound like the fatal demise of the Concorde was a certainty, only a matter of time until something terrible happened. OK, no biggie, except when you're standing 10 feet away from it, and it's as real as any other plane you've ever traveled in.