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[32wildbilly]

Not near your trip, but...SAC museum at Ashland, NE has an SR71 hanging in the lobby. When I walked in the first time I was stunned!

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Good to know - thanks for the tip!

Another good war-bird museum is at March ARB
A really great collection including a SR71 and a B-52 among others

[gnat]

Not near your trip, but...SAC museum at Ashland, NE has an SR71 hanging in the lobby. When I walked in the first time I was stunned!
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Another good war-bird museum is at March ARB
A really great collection including a SR71 and a B-52 among others

That's a nice pose for it. As well as living next door to VWHQ I also live next door to the Air & Space Annex:

You get a really great look at it from above as you come in.

Definitely worth the trip if you are in the DC area for any reason.

[FRUNKenstein]

Another good war-bird museum is at March ARB
A really great collection including a SR71 and a B-52 among others

Huh, wow, I had no idea. I think I actually flew in there for touch-and-goes a couple of times back in the early '90s. Next trip to SoCal, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

[FRUNKenstein]

Not near your trip, but...SAC museum at Ashland, NE has an SR71 hanging in the lobby. When I walked in the first time I was stunned!

Yup, that's a fantastic museum. I actually drilled for 2 years at SAC at Offutt AFB in Omaha in 2000 & 2001. I wasn't on-site on 9/11/01, but one of my buddies was. He got trapped in there for several days - they wouldn't let anyone in or out of the building.

Also, our Boy Scout troop makes a trip there for their "night at the museum" weekend every other year, and you actually get to spend the night in the museum. Important safety tip - bring a pad for under your sleeping bag as their floors are really hard. Ask me how I know. So, I'm luck to been to the SAC museum several times. It is over 300,000 square feet of enclosed space. If you are driving cross-country, it's worth a detour to see it.

[5chn3ll]

My niece is currently a docent at the March museum. I am working this angle to see if I can get a picture of my 996 with an SR-71.

[FRUNKenstein]

Speaking of vacations, I have memories of my family going to Disneyland at Christmas time in 1969, when I was 5 years old (we lived in Oregon at the time, so we just drove). The memories are a little fuzzy, but I have always thought I was wearing a suit and tie. Nah, I tell myself, that's crazy. For one thing, we had very little money (we stayed in a 1-room apartment with my aunt & uncle who was in the Navy). For another - who the hell would dress a kid up in a freaking suit and tie to go to Disneyland?!?!

Well, I was visiting my mom on Sunday afternoon, and she dragged out some old pictures to look through. And damn -there it was, a pic of me, my sister and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, and I'm wearing a suit and tie! I looked at Mom and said "Hey, I know I had a great time and it was a big sacrifice for you and Dad to take the 4 kids to Disneyland and all, BUT WHAT THE HELL?" I suppose things have changed in the past 52 years, and maybe it was normal. Anyhow, for your viewing pleasure:

(I'm sure when Schnelly's parents took him, he was sporting a mullet and parachute pants.)

[32wildbilly]

Awesome!

Nice thing about the SAC museum is almost all of the displays can be walked up to, under and/or touch. Kind of brings it to reality when you stand beneath the wing of a B25 or right next to a B58 Hustler. Course I'm a military airplane fanatic.

Not near your trip, but...SAC museum at Ashland, NE has an SR71 hanging in the lobby. When I walked in the first time I was stunned!
B6AD951A-271E-4543-A581-18122B873914_4_5005_c.jpeg

That's a nice pose for it. As well as living next door to VWHQ I also live next door to the Air & Space Annex:

You get a really great look at it from above as you come in.

Definitely worth the trip if you are in the DC area for any reason.

[FRUNKenstein]

My niece is currently a docent at the March museum. I am working this angle to see if I can get a picture of my 996 with an SR-71.

Are you gonna stick a non-matching spoiler on the Blackbird?

[32wildbilly]

That's a nice pose for it. As well as living next door to VWHQ I also live next door to the Air & Space Annex:

Speaking of VWHQ...are you going to have to move with them?

[gnat]

Awesome!

Nice thing about the SAC museum is almost all of the displays can be walked up to, under and/or touch. Kind of brings it to reality when you stand beneath the wing of a B25 or right next to a B58 Hustler. Course I'm a military airplane fanatic.

Yeah I looked for a better pic to show it, but that railing puts you just out of arm's reach of the nose and wing tips.

You are slightly more removed from the Enola Gay due to anti-war asshats throwing paint on it early on

Another feature of the Annex that makes it really worthwhile for aviation fans is that they have a viewing area where you can watch them work on restoring aircraft. Before kids that get bored in 5 seconds, the wife and I have stood there for over an hour at a time watching them work.




Hmmm.... Need to take another trip with the Hasselblad and see what interesting things I can find...