PhantomAce08 wrote:
What is all at the Navy Yard Museum? I checked out there website, but can't get anything to load.
There's a Wikipedia entry that mirrors what's on the Navy Museum site.
From strictly a full-sized airplane perspective, they have a few aircraft, including an F4U and an Ohka (may be a reproduction), and maybe a couple others.
They have a good number of really neat models of historic ships, including 1/48 (yes, I said 1/48) scale USS Forrestal and USS Ranger (CV-4) with representative airgroups aboard. Plus a number of battleships, cruisers and destroyers.
They have the decommissioned destroyer Barry, which I think has a DASH on the helo pad (I might be recalling Laffey down at Patriots Point tho), a WWI 14" Naval railway gun and a segment of Yamato-class main belt armor that was used for post-war testing against 16" 45 cal rounds (taking a look at the destruction wreaked on that piece of armor by the 45 AP shell, which is less powerful than the 50 cal "super heavy" shells of the Iowa class, it becomes readily apparent that even in a fight with a Washington or SoDak, Yamato/Musashi would have had to have scored a lucky early hit, or would have been dogmeat.)
There's an enormous amount of other material, both Naval Aviation related and not, in the museum. That's what, imho, makes it really unique. Rather than having, say, Enola Gay, or the Spirit of St. Louis, or Memphis Belle or some other big-name artifact, the museum is a treasure trove of neat ninutiae.