Nogbad the Bad

Florence used to have a very nice museum, until the money grabbers came along

kluge

Nogbad - great pics.

What is the second a/c with the inverted gullwing and the jet with 'Glynco' painted on port side ?

Not to Nogbad - per the Berlin pics which are fabulous and I have to get there to see sometime - I thought that display of the swastika was illegal in Germany.
Obviously this has changed. Could someone fill me in ?

Dont have pics but the aviation museum outside of Beijing near Badaling is VG if anyone has pics.

BTW French 'La Goudale' beer is VG on a crappy hot HK sunday arvo when one can't sail ones yacht wot......what a f..kwit comment. good beer though

kluge

---ahh Grumman F-11 Tiger - seems to have a nose extension.

Questin still stands for the second pic thought - agter the B47.

This beer is blooy good

MReyn24050

kluge
It is a Douglas BTD-1 'Destroyer' SN: 04959 REG: N7035U. A similar aircraft is being restored at the National Warplane Museum Elmira New York.
It was not a great success. In 1944 some 28 aircraft were built. The programme was doomed as competive designs were anticipated to have superior performance. and the US Navy cancelled the BTD-1 contract and the last aircraft was delivered on the 8th October 1945.
Mel

treadigraph

Beer? Lucky sod, I'm now at work - and PPRuNeing!

The aircraft in question is the Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer!

kluge

thx pal - looks like an uglier version of a Nanchang cj6 (which is not uglier and infact lovely to fly).

Yes beer and we've run out. Have to send the missus out for some more. Weathercrappy in HK at present.

Nogbad the Bad

Sorry peeps been away - thanks to those that answered for me

brickhistory

Caught this bird out of place at the Museum of Aviation located just outside Robins AFB. About 1.5 hours or so south of Atlanta, this is the largest USAF Museum outside of Dayton.

Part of the USAF's Museum program, they've got more than 90 birds on display - a lot inside, most of the bigger ones outside. Inside, a SR-71, U-2 share space with a B-29, B-25, P-51, P-40, etc. Outside, the biggest is the B-52D (wingtip in this photo) and a C-124. Other interesting jets include a B-57A (with the EE type bubble canopy), a WB-57 with the gi-normous wing! and lots of Century-series fighters.

I wonder about the the Lightning F.6 in the distance.

Anyway, great aviation museum in an unexpected location.

ChrisVJ

On our way back from Havasu acouple of weeks ago we made a detour to take the kids to the Evergreen Aviation Museum atMcMinnville OR. Access by road is terrible but it is worth the trip. The building is new (and the first of five,) and custom built, A new Imax opens soon.

Of course the main even is actually too big to get in a frame:


Just the scale of her tail is surprising.


There were lots of other interesting aircraft too,
Like this Gee Bee Sportster replica


And I love the detail on this Trimotor.



Well where else would you put theluggage?


There were the usual Spitfire and Mustang but this Bf109 was really tidy too:


A mint Beech Staggerwing:


P38, first decent one I have seen:


These are not quite common as muck over here but I guess they'd be pretty rare in the UK. They have an uncovered renovated model too.


No US museum is without a Curtiss of some sort, (or two or three, )


Altogether worth a visit (Our 1.1/2 hours turned into 3.1/2) if you are near Portland, Oregon.

paulc

Kluge - as requested a few pics from this stunning museum. I took pics of pretty much everything but the tunnel is a little dark and so have not put those on photobucket site.
200+ exhibits so apologies if more than 15 posted.

paulc

a few more from Datangshan

paulc

part 3

PPRuNe Pop

paulc.

Your pics are too good to be sized the way they are, and as you use photobucket you resize them to 800x600. If you cannot do it - we can.

Great pics all the same.

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Cool Mod - Here, and was there.

PPRuNe Pop

ChrisVJ

Thank you for some great shots.

The thing that strikes me, is that the American museums always go for highly polished/finished floors that then show the aeroplanes off.

Can you possibly name the aircraft please. Some of us don't always know the names. Treadigraph will I expect!

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Cool Mod - Here, and was there.

DC-8

"Fundación Infante de Orleáns" (FIO) is a collection of 30 historical aircrafts still in flight. You can see almost all of them flying every first Sunday of each month (except for January and August) at Cuatro Vientos Airport (LECU), Madrid.

http://www.fio.es/museo/aviones.htm


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1105167/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1080736/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0990453/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0839869/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0379455/M/

DC-8

In Madrid you may also visit the "Museo del Aire". It's very close to LECU.

http://www.aire.org/museo/index.htm


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0542489/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0515933/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0057828/M/

DC-8

I don't know the reason of that. Maybe it was because I inserted the pictures with the Insert Image tool and that is not allowed as the pictures have copyright. I've removed the pictures and inserted the full links, so I think the problem is already solved.

ThaiFlyer

Just joined. Would love comments etc on the museum listings (and indeed any other Thai aviation things) on my website.

Steve Darke
www.thai-aviation.net

Loki

My effort at Seattle; the learfan previously mentioned



Another view of the main hall




Starfighter


Mig21



Not part of the museum, but parked just over the fence was this delightful Waco(?) "Miss Sonya"


However, this Mig 17 was part of the museum

skiddyiom

I took my son to Castle Air Museum in California in 2003 where we found a friendly, well laid out selection of aircraft which were pretty easy to picture and see.

Boeing B-17G 43-38635 "Virgins Delight"

Grumman HU-16B Albatross 51-7613

Boeing B-47E Stratojet 52-0166

NA F-86H Sabre 53-1230 (as old as me! )

McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 57-0412

Lockheed F-104D Starfighter
We found it very easy to get to from Merced and it is well worth a visit!! More pics in the next batch!!
skiddy