Udvar-Hazy Center

[Typhoon1244]

I just saw ALPA's "Sneak Preview of NASM's new Udvar-Hazy Center." Looks really impressive, but...

...couldn't they have gotten a British Concorde to put in there? Did they have to use Air France?

 

[VADriver]

I wouldn't like to be the one to give you a Christmas gift.....

 

[Typhoon1244]

I wouldn't like to be the one to give you a Christmas gift.....

Well if you're going to give me a Concorde, that's another story!

 

[XGmaninGA]

Despite our current differences with the French, our nation has been allies with them longer than the Brits.

 

[bart]

Despite our current differences with the French, our nation has been allies with them longer than the Brits.

That could be debated... seems that the colonials fought on the side of the British against the French just 20 years before the Declaration of Independence. Either way, over the last 100 years, the Brits have been much better friends to the US than the French. The current differences with the French have their roots back in the closing days of WWII and how France wanted to punish the Germans (once again, like after WWI, which made Hitler's rise to power possible), and we answered with the Marshall Plan.

Ever since then, the French have been protesting their declining importance in world affairs by disagreeing with the US and making ridiculous policy moves to make it appear that they are a world power. I guess I would have an inferiority complex too if I had not won a war in over 150 years and the 150 year old victory was with a Corsican at the helm. Hell, they even have to bring in foreigners (the Legion) to have decent infantry.

So, just because the French took advantage of the American Revolution to open a second front on the Brits, don't count them among our great friends... they are not.