Wow talk about a Blast! Hope to return someday!
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U.S. Airforce museum pics! (1 Viewer)
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T.J.
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Great pics Joe!!! I love the pics of the Valkyrie! Its a shame that the project never "took off" and the photo shoot crash was tragic!!! I need to make it up there to the museum sometime in the future. I used to travel to Toledo once a month and always put off renting a car and making it a day trip.
I can fill in a couple holes in your captions - among the aircraft in #5 is an NKC-135, the one with the hump on the fuselage. That's the Airborne Laser Lab test aircraft - there's now a 747 version flying that's an operational prototype.
Shot 12 is a B-25 Mitchell, the type of plane that flew in the Tokyo raid from the carrier Hornet in WW II.
Shot 15 is a De Havilland Mosquito, a British plane from WW II that was built from plywood and was the first stealth airplane - very effective airplane that was used, among other things, to drop CIA and British agents behind German lines in the years before D-Day.
Shot 18 is, appropriately, a B-18, the Boeing predecessor to the B-17 and B-29.
Can't help with the canvas airplanes - even I am not that old...at least I won't admit it.
Shot 12 is a B-25 Mitchell, the type of plane that flew in the Tokyo raid from the carrier Hornet in WW II.
Shot 15 is a De Havilland Mosquito, a British plane from WW II that was built from plywood and was the first stealth airplane - very effective airplane that was used, among other things, to drop CIA and British agents behind German lines in the years before D-Day.
Shot 18 is, appropriately, a B-18, the Boeing predecessor to the B-17 and B-29.
Can't help with the canvas airplanes - even I am not that old...at least I won't admit it.
One of the Volunteers at the Museum was stationed at Edwards when that plane flew. He said it Shook the Ground something firce when taking Off! What I wouldn't givce to experience that!
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Very cool place! Thanks for sharing your pics. We've got the Spruce Goose and a SR-71 and many other planes not far from Portland at the Evergreen Air Museum. I haven't been back to see the SR-71 since it's been assembled. When I saw it it was still in many pieces and the engines were on maintenance stands. According to the museum it's the only one in a museum than was disassembled and assembled so that it could be put back into service if ever needed.
ricko999™
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Joe, I don't know if you know, but if you fly into Dallas Love Field there is a aviation museum there.
Frontiers of Flight Museum - Dallas, Texas
Frontiers of Flight Museum - Dallas, Texas
Joe hope you had fun I live just right up the street from there.
Jim - Good call on the A-20 - I thought it was a solid-nose B-25, but the cockpit is too narrow. Both airplanes had very flat sides and high-mounted wings.
Also you are correct on the B-18 - it was the Martin B-18, not a Boeing.
I don't think #21 is a Jenny - the Jenny had a fairly large, vertically mounted radiator right behind the propeller and the top wing was one continuous piece, not split. Here's a link to a good shot of a Jenny's front end:
Jenny
Also you are correct on the B-18 - it was the Martin B-18, not a Boeing.
I don't think #21 is a Jenny - the Jenny had a fairly large, vertically mounted radiator right behind the propeller and the top wing was one continuous piece, not split. Here's a link to a good shot of a Jenny's front end:
Jenny
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Larry- You are correct, #21 is NOT a Jenny. I missed the radiator completely.
What do you think, I'm not sure. I thought maybe an old De Havilland (DH-4?).
I tried to find a picture of one last night, but couldn't. I think they were used as trainers about the same time as Jennys, that would account for the Air Corps (or was it Signal Corps?) markings. I think they used them in the first airmail service, because they were available cheap. But I never could come up with a picture.
Jim
What do you think, I'm not sure. I thought maybe an old De Havilland (DH-4?).
I tried to find a picture of one last night, but couldn't. I think they were used as trainers about the same time as Jennys, that would account for the Air Corps (or was it Signal Corps?) markings. I think they used them in the first airmail service, because they were available cheap. But I never could come up with a picture.
Jim
