WOW! WOW!! Thank you sir for the pix! The Belle...oops...Miss Liberty Belle has come a long way since Mr Crume found her on her belly, rusting away in the weeds! There are actually pix of her sitting in a hangar shortly after she got there back in the early 60's...wish I had made copies of those. I had the pleasure of going inside her last fall to clean the plexiglass as well as some other minor things...she is certainly cleaned-out on the inside. I had heard that the NMUSAF took whatever was left inside of her for the restoration of Shoo Shoo...
There is now a freshly painted F-84 located behind the KC-97. Last time I was there, the plan was to lower the boom on the -97, move the -84 in close to appear as though an aeiral refueling were about to take place. Had the misfortune of witnessing a couple of young children up on the wing of the -84 last summer, jumping up and down!!!!! Only time I ever had to ask someone to leave the premises
From listening to Mr Crume, the Navy had gone out of it's way to provide aircraft such as the F-14, Buckeye and even offered them a submarine! Grissom started life as Bunker Hill NAS, hence the Navy link.
Again...thank you so much for the pix from the early days of the museum. I have hundreds of current pix of the insides and outsides of most of the planes on display...unfortunately, no luck saving them from a dead harddrive
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...I sure pre--fur the nude painting 
