B-29 Doc @ KMCW

[Tuned forks]

bucket list.

Joe

[FJ Flyer]

My hope is that the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA gets their P-61 Black Widow flying and some day take a ride in the back seat.  My Dad was a radio (radar) operator in the Pacific in the 421st Night Fighter Squadron.

[Troyskie]

Wow, more av nerds are into FJs than I thought.

Av Nerds,

I know I have posted about this place before, but it may be worth a repeat.  The Hill AFB AeroSpace Museum is a great place to see most of the planes ever flown by the USAF, and even some Russian examples.  The history traces from a Wright Flier to the SR-71.  I believe that this museum is second only to the Wright-Patterson AFB air museum, for military aircraft.  Hill AFB is in northern Utah, about one hour north on I-15, from the junction of I-15 and I-80 (SLC, UT.)  Exit 338 on I-15 (watch the Mile Markers) will put you there.

For some reason, the current HAFB museum webpage is now kinda lame, just a shadow of its' former self.  The Wayback Machine found a good archive, though.  Click on EXHIBITS, pick an era, and see pix & histories of most of the planes in the museum.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160624033323/http://www.hill.af.mil/library/museum/

In the 360view tab below, click on any small image to see it larger.  On the larger image, click-drag with the mouse to rotate the view left, right, up, & down.

https://tinyurl.com/museumHAFB

Here below is the link for a .PDF map of the HAFB museum layout.  Planes on gray backgrounds are outdoors.  Planes on white backgrounds are indoors.  Download and Zoom In:

https://www.aerospaceutah.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-Museum-Map-Download-COLOR.pdf
       
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Thanks mate. It made me check the facts instead of repeating what I was told. This one is about 90% new parts. There is a mob in Germany making them to order. I think there might be as many as 7 flying examples, so this is one of 7 (not 7 of Nine trekkies  ).

Joe, yep, this one is in Australia. From what I've been told they are great fun to fly but really twitchy to land. There is quite a bit of 'toe out' on the main gear, so ground loop is the main worry. They will take landing in unimproved fields but at millions of dollars each I don't imagine many would be game enough to try a rough field landing unless necessary.