photos of the Udvar-Hazy Center of NASM

[armyjunk2]

hello everyone I posted about a hundred photos of the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum over at the CDSG site, will not work with 56K
click here please
http://tinyurl.com/yht43gm

[Holedigger]

Nice set of pics! Thanks for sharing. Gotta get up there again, it has been Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooo long.

[armyjunk2]

They have nice stuff there

[PanzerJohn]

Great pics , there are some real gems there, makes me feel like getting on a plane!.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Nice Shots!
One of these days I'll have to get down there for a visit.
Jerry

[TimAPNY]

I'm trying to figure out how to prepare myself when I finally get to check that place out. I think it might be total overload.

Tim

[gary1954]

Eggsellant Photos, thanks for sharin' them with the world.
I liked the P-61 and the P-38 in the natural sceme of "used"
Now, since I am surrounded by ka-nolgable people, what is 24 is that the
remains of a flying wing?
also, is the red mustang the one that Paul Mantz owned/operated?

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[Pogo]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to post all that! I missed getting to stop in and have a look by just a hair, and had a big red one over it ever since. This collection of shots has me feeling much better.

[Garth]

hello everyone I posted about a hundred photos of the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum over at the CDSG site, will not work with 56K
click here please
http://tinyurl.com/yht43gm

When did you take these?

The F-14 now has inert weapons loaded: a Phoenix and a JDAM on the forward fuselage pallets, Sparrow and Sidewinder on the port shoulder station. I think they're keeping the starboard shoulder clean until they can lay hands on a LANTIRN.

The A-6 now also has MERs and inert Harpoons. And there's an 0-1 Bird Dog hanging above the T-33.

[JDK]

8) Eggsellant Photos, thanks for sharin' them with the world.

And I agree. Good quality shots, too, overall. Thanks!

Now, since I am surrounded by ka-nolgable people, what is 24 is that the
remains of a flying wing?

Looks like a Horten to me. That's all I can add off the cuff.

also, is the red mustang the one that Paul Mantz owned/operated?

Yes, but in its later scheme. It's 'Excalibur III' which Captain Charles Blair flew over the North Pole.

Blair had purchased the P-51 Mustang "Blaze of Noon" that Paul Mantz flown to wins in the Bendix Trophy air races in 1946 and 1947. Rechristened "Excalibur III", Blair began setting records. On 31 January 1951 Blair flew non stop from New York to London to test the jet stream, traveling 3,478 miles (5,597 km) at an average speed of 446 miles per hour (718 km/h) in seven hours and 48 minutes setting a record for a piston engine plane.[1] On 29 May of the same year he flew from Bardufoss, Norway to Fairbanks, Alaska flying 3260 non stop miles across the North Pole. Captain Blair was awarded the Harmon Trophy from President Truman and the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Aero Club. The Excalibur III is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Blair,_Jr.

[jdvoss]

Hey, GREAT PHOTOS !!!! Out of curiosity what kind of camera did you use and did you use an external flash device ??

Thanks, JohnV

[warbird1]

Wow, awesome pictures! Places inside the U-H are not the easiest to take pictures of. Some portions are challenging. Did you use a monopod or a large aperature lens?

It looks like the He-219 is still not done. Anyone have an update on those wings?

The most surprising thing I remember from my trip, is seeing how large and tall that Do-335 is. It is quite something in person. It's really a hike to get up to that cockpit. I swear that thing is as big as an F-15!

[jet1]

thank god they have 3 THREE dead p-61s (two complete in storage)...heaven forbid that we would have one flying anywhere on the planet!

[BK]

:shock:

I'm trying to figure out how to prepare myself when I finally get to check that place out. I think it might be total overload.

Tim

I can handle a massive museum like this. Three trips to the USAF Museum in Dayton in the last 7 years has broke me in. It's that you have to do TWO of them (UH & the Mall) at once that is sensory overload. Plus, all the monuments and memorials. I'd need at least a week.

I'm also feeling pressure to visit before Enterprise leaves, sometime in 2011(?). It will likely end up on the west coast somewhere making it difficult for me to see.

BK

PS Almost forgot, great photos!

[Taylor Stevenson]

I wonder why they put a brodie system on the first production L-5. I dont think it ever had one on it. Jim?