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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 9:35 am 
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I wonder, if in my lifetime I will see any of these on display? I kind of doubt it

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Sadly most of those were on display, space is certainly an issue. Many of them used to sit outside adjacent to the 8th Air Force Tower. Glad to see them inside. The annex tours of yesteryear was always a highlight. The bus ride across the field, those historic flight test hangars. Just about every bit of wartime technology passed through that real-estate. I wish that was still part of the program. Security tightened up after 9/11 and things haven't really changed since...plus, the bus tours were quite the expense. I'm sure they will eventually rotate in to the display que. It would be cool to see them implement "plane of the month" from the storage area, with a dedicated space at the entrance...pie in the sky.


This year marks my 50th year of going to the USAFM, my mom and dad went there in 1971 for the opening...I wasn't born yet...but I was there :D. My dad had a contract with the Air Force maintaining the Steam Distribution system. Anytime he had to do service calls and I was on vacation from school or there was a special event he'd take my mom and I down with him from Akron. It's been incredible to watch it evolve. Although it's disappointing that restorations don't progress at a faster pace, it's still a great place to getaway. As an aside, and maybe its just me...every time I walk in there, it has the same smell, I can't describe it, it's not offensive, just a smell I remember since I was a kid. It maybe the food from the Valkyrie diner...pretty sure it's from the same 70's supply :D

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...every time I walk in there, it has the same smell, I can't describe it, it's not offensive, just a smell I remember since I was a kid. :D

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It's not just you, and it's a definite deja vu smell when it hits you.


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For those interested, NMUSAF has been posting further drone videos of the storage hangar:



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Looks like this one to me, same vertical stripes, "D" canopies.

Luckily you can make out the serial number on the T-6 at 2:15 in the most recent one. Turns out you're correct. It is indeed 41-17372, painted as 42-805, that was formerly at Chanute. The paint scheme was apparently changed since the most recent picture in the Aerial Visuals dossier.

They also recently posted a video of the engines in their "deep" on-base storage in Building 5:


The location was previously profiled in a video for Air Force TV back in 2016:


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...every time I walk in there, it has the same smell, I can't describe it, it's not offensive, just a smell I remember since I was a kid. :D

It's not just you, and it's a definite deja vu smell when it hits you.

I can't speak for NMUSAF - although I've been there a bunch - but there's definitely a distinct smell when you walk into our museum.

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Are the remains of the XC 99 inside or outside?


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Are the remains of the XC 99 inside or outside?


Outside at the Davis-Monthan boneyard since 2012.


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This video is from the restoration hangar, July 2021:

https://youtu.be/743iazwwvU0

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New video:


Note the new resident at the beginning, a Zenith CH 801, N801MP. It's not clear why it's there as it does not appear to have any military history. My best guess is that they're going to turn it into some sort of sit-in kids exhibit.

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Whats the history of the white Phantom ?


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It was the YF-4E, converted from YRF-4C, so a test/trials machine all its life.


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I really wish they would just let people walk through there and see all of that stuff...don't need it displayed or restored but just to see the history. I would pay just to see the German collection alone.


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Never thought the XF90 would ever be on display in my lifetime, but it is right now.


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Andy Marden wrote:
It was the YF-4E, converted from YRF-4C, so a test/trials machine all its life.


Ok, and now I see that it was the mount for Yeagers last active duty flight.


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