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Engineman1960

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I think we have kinda hijacked this thread! I have thousands of pics from all the times at Oshkosh, once at Sun & Fun and many other airshows. I used to be President of Oklahoma Pilots Association years ago. We took GA planes to Will Rogers several times for the Aerospace America.

I love this; Airplanes have always been a part of my life, My wife thinks I’m crazy to visit Aviation Museums; I visited 12 (I included the Ft. Lewis, Washington Army post museum and the Seattle Art museum with my son; sorry no airplanes there) museums this year.

I was at the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle, I met a retired guy there; said he visits that museum 3 or 4 times a week!

The Museum of Flight didn’t have a Cenna O-2 (AKA 337 Skymaster) on display, but the restoration center for the Museum of Flight had one:
https://www.museumofflight.org/Explore-The-Museum/Aircraft-Restoration
 

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Let us not forget the loose assemblages of aeronautical parts all moving in the same general direction.

UH-1B_Iroquois_on_display.jpg
 

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This is one of my favorites:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/sr-71-blackbird-spy-plane-design/index.html

According to the video in the above article; the aircraft flies faster than an M1 Garand bullet (SR-71 top speed 2193.2 miles per hour converts to more than 3216.69333 feet per second; the M1 muzzle velocity is 2800 feet per second).

I used this calculator:

https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/mile-per-hour-to-foot-per-second/

According to this website, there are 30 on display:

https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php#oregon

I have visited 10 -- 19 to go, don’t think I’m going to make it to Duxford, England; But -- Never Say Never !!!!
Wife worked with a lady who's husband was an Air Force flightline firefighter at Mildenhall AFB in England where the Blackbird flew out of.
He said after the mission, the firefighters would have to lightly "mist" the aircraft for quite a while to bring the skin temperatures down enough for the pilots to exit.
 

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Let us not forget the loose assemblages of aeronautical parts all moving in the same general direction.
I knew a guy who flew those things in the Pink Teams in Vietnam. Dude could flat-out spin a tale, but he had enough photographic evidence that you couldn't tell which were true and which were windies.

A few years ago, I got to know a guy who had recently retired from the service, and one of the few things I tried to talk him out of (and utterly failed at) was a squadron patch for (IIRC) a Pink Team unit that was flying in the sandbox. I can't recall the unit designation, but their patch said "we see dead people." It was a freaking cool patch, too.
 

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I knew a guy who flew those things in the Pink Teams in Vietnam. Dude could flat-out spin a tale, but he had enough photographic evidence that you couldn't tell which were true and which were windies.

A few years ago, I got to know a guy who had recently retired from the service, and one of the few things I tried to talk him out of (and utterly failed at) was a squadron patch for (IIRC) a Pink Team unit that was flying in the sandbox. I can't recall the unit designation, but their patch said "we see dead people." It was a freaking cool patch, too.

I had a buddy that was First Air Cav in a OH-6 Loach. He said their patch was Snoopy and they were called Snoopy Scouts

www.usmilitariaforum.com_uploads__monthly_05_2010_post_12179_1275159316.jpg

They did the hunter killer missions. He said he was shot down 5 times and finally got his 100% disability in 2000.
 

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The excellent part of visiting these museums, No Admission Fee; Ft. Rucker, Without Military ID, you must stop by the main gate and apply for a day pass to the museum ( The process took about 30 minutes) -- The Naval Air Museum at Pensacola NAS, FL, we were able to just show our drivers license at the gate; according to the website, that has not changed. There is also schedule on the museum website where you could watch the Blue Angels practice.

https://www.navalaviationmuseum.org

The Hurlburt Field, FL (Pensacola, FL) Airpark, has some excellent aircraft, but its not open to the public, have to have DoD Credentials, Just down the highway outside Eglin Air Force Base is the USAF Armament Museum -- Excellent firearms displays (gun vault) also -- Guns and Airplanes.

http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com
 

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