The first one is a cracker; personally I think a complete a/c would have spoilt it.

Great pictures - the Phantom just oozes character.

The Udvar-Hazy centre at Dulles Airport, Washington DC is the “displayable storage” facility of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The downtown museum reopens this autumn (fall) after a massive refurbishment. Just a small selection below. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52417479619_e5bda1ca31...

Thanks, I’ll pass it on to Joe and the volunteers at Udar-Hazy.

B58Hustler wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 07, 2022 12:11 am

There's an aeroplane in there that I would travel to Ohio to see if that were the only aircraft there.
No prizes for guessing which. This place is on my to do list and thanks for sharing.

If it’s big and white, that’s what I went for. If it’s the Hustler, at least you could also go to Pima.

Ban all external Christmas lights.

🇺🇦 🌻 🇺🇦 To add to raptor9’s comments. A tin bath on the mat before the sitting room fire. Newspaper squares suspended on string in the outside loo. Mind Luxury. When I were a lad we had to find a puddle to bathe in and as for the outside loo ...... sent out into the snowstorm with a shovel and a bu...

Lotus A simple search on wikipedia gives you a potted history of Ukraine over the last 1000 years or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine To say it's convoluted is something of an understatement. Your post yesterday evening, despite a clear ignorance of the actual history, did make me think on t...

While at the Udvar-Hazy centre (center?) recently I was chatting to some of their volunteers; one is coming over to the UK at the end of November and I said I’d show him around Duxford – so we’re meeting up. I got the e-mail below from him today about Alcock and Brown’s first flight across the Atla...

Thanks POL.
The X-32 had had a repaint but the paint didn’t stick! The plan is to restore it and put it inside with the X-35.

The Pax River Naval Air Museum is about an hour and a half south-east of Washington D.C., straight forward to get to if you fancy it. The day before I’d visited the AMC Museum at Dover. As ever the welcome I got from the staff and volunteers was great – certainly helped by the Duxford maps I had tak...

Thanks Iain, some great shots once again. Now is it an EC-135 or a C-18 that's preserved? The Convair looks interesting. I did read somewhere that a control tower was carefully dismantled at an old USAAF base in the UK and shipped over to the USA, maybe this is it. I'm sure it could be googled. The...

Thanks , Gordon; I never tire of seeing Phantoms and fancy Hercs.

The last ones from NMUSAF (until I go again). There are a number of aircraft outside – mainly some larger ones they haven’t got under cover. Apparently there are discussions about adding another building – problematic because there needs to be clearance for the runway – or extending some of the othe...

Great. Many thanks Iain. Remember being allowed to walk through a couple of the Presidential aircraft. Is that still permitted, I wonder?. Yes, DC-4, DC-6 and 707 (or whatever its VIP designation was.) can’t remember about Columbine. As an aside you could walk through a number of the big transports...

NMUSAF Presidential and Cold War A bit of a mixture here; the larger presidential a/c are tricky to photograph in the circumstances. However you can get into each of them and it was interesting to see how basic the earlier ones were. It was also quite poignant to be able to stand on the spot LBJ was...

Sorry to hear that, hope it works out for you.

Punkrunner62 wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:04 pm

Appears to have a small anchor symbol under the tailplane, perhaps sold to some military operator? and on delivery?.

Pretty sure that’s a tie down point.

I was referring , in what was meant to be a jocular manner, to your somewhat incoherent first post - which given your usual level of lucidity and accurate grammar surprised me.

Are you sure the Talisker isn’t still affecting you?