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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Brooke on February 08, 2015, 12:00:38 AM
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I visited a couple of local museums that I hadn't yet visited, both collections being mostly flyable aircraft, and a lot of planes that flew in combat.
http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/FlyingHeritageCollection/heritageCollection.html
http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/HistoricFlightFoundation/historicFlight.html
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Great pics, Brooke! :aok
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cool pictures, love the A-5 from JG54 hehehe
if you ever get the opportunity, go to the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio.... I promise you won't be disappointed!
I have a couple of thousand pictures of that place!
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Oh to have Paul Allen's money.
Some beautiful birds there. I really like his 109E and the Jug and 51 restorations are amazing as is the A5.
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if you ever get the opportunity, go to the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio.... I promise you won't be disappointed!
My wife took me there on our honeymoon. :aok
It is the grandest flight museum, in my opinion.
My favorite flight museums are: USAF (largest collection), Udvar Hazy (a close 2nd in collection), Museum of Flight (see below), Flying Heritage Collection (for its flyable planes), and Planes of Fame (lots of flyable ones there, too).
Of them all, the one I've been to most is the Museum of Flight because of pilot panel discussions. They've had numerous aces and bomber pilots give talks there -- Bud Anderson, George Chandler, Steve Pisanos, Lou Luma, Arthur Jeffrey, Dean Caswell, Kelly Gross, George Novotny, Harry Farrier (one of the few TBM survivors at Midway), Warren Omark (who got a torpedo hit on the Hiyo, sunk in the Battle of the Philippine Sea), and a lot more; pilots of P-51's, P-47's, P-38's, P-40's, P-39's, F4U's, F6F's, B-17's, B-24's, B-25's, Spitfires, Mosquitos, SBD's, TBM's, Beaufighters, P-61's; pilots who fought over Germany, France, Italy, the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands, and Japan; pilots who did bomber escort, fighter sweeps, high-alt bombing, fighter bombers, night fighters, dive bombers, torpedo bombers, photo recon. It's an amazing place for that.
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Oh to have Paul Allen's money.
Some beautiful birds there. I really like his 109E and the Jug and 51 restorations are amazing as is the A5.
Heh! Indeed! :aok
I admire the guy for what he does with his money. He didn't just sit back and buy yachts and live large (although I'm sure he does plenty of that, too) -- he put his money into some less-common passions that won't make him money but that other people can share, like the Flying Heritage Collection. Also, he invests in a lot of technology startups.
Those you mention all look great. The Jug didn't see combat in WWII, but the other two shot down enemy aircraft.
The 51 is supposedly the flying 51 that is as close as you can get to the actual state of WWII 51's (such as, among other things, including the filler stuff that they spread over the wings and then sanded smooth). It wasn't crashed or wrecked after the war, and was the plane flown by a pilot who shot down some German fighters in it (including one Me 262). When I first saw that finish on a P-51 claiming to be accurate, I thought (before I knew better), "But the wings are obviously fake, made out of fiberglass or something -- it's not shiny aluminum with flush rivets and seams."
The 190A-5 is the only one flying with all original stuff, including engine.
Other than the 190D-13 and the Ki-43, they fly all of them periodically. I used to work not far from the place, and there is a McDonald's right off the end of the runway. Several times I remember sitting in the drive-through line and hearing the sound of a WWII bird and looking up to see one come close overhead for a landing. I saw their P-51, F6F, and B-25 that way -- from the drive through.
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Wow. Thanks for posting these, Brooke.
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thanks for sharing brooke. :aok
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Great Pics. Thanks for posting
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Oh to have Paul Allen's money.
Spoken like his wife. :lol
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Outstanding. Thank you Brooke
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Excellent Photo's Brooke Thank you for sharing
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:aok :aok Great pics Brooke..
Thanks for sharing..
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Jedi
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Very Nice Brooks , must of been really nice to see some of these planes up close , what caught my eye was the V1 with a cockpit in it, wasnt aware that they actualy had a pilot version , now how you get a 1 to actually volentere for this , again nice pics ..
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I got wood. Beautiful restorations. :aok
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All I can think is WOW. Love the Dora. May be the rarity that makes it jump out at me. I don't use them in the game.
And you seem to have the same problem identifying ground vehicles that I do. Think they may be out of order.
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, what caught my eye was the V1 with a cockpit in it, wasnt aware that they actualy had a pilot version , ...
Wasn't the pilot version used for development and testing?
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Now they loaded in correct order for me. Not sure what happened there.
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Nice pictures :rock
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Nice pics. I wish they'd let Hitech fly them all. :D
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I was going to say "Love the Dora" but I love so many of them its hard to find one to love the most. The Dora is a real gorgeous restoration tho.
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Thanks, folks.
For the manned V-1 the pilot was supposedly to bail out once it was aimed at the target. :uhoh It was never used in the war.
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Bail out and be digested by the pulse jet?!? Best to cut the jet first, I'm sure.
Sweet pics by the way, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Brooke :aok
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Thanks, nice pics !
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Thanks Brooke. This museum just made my bucket list.
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Thanks Brooke. This museum just made my bucket list.
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If you are ever in the Seattle area, let me know, and I'll take you to the museums and out to lunch or dinner. :aok
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Thanks for posting Brooke :aok
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BigRat