The Original U.S. Air Force Museum (1958)

Shay · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:15 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5IOtnml_Y&feature=channel_page

Neat footage of the U.S. Air Force Museum at it's original location at Patterson Field.

Notice in the collection is the XB-52.

Shay
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Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:41 pm

I wonder if the 1958 date is correct. I thought the B-24 wasn't sent to the museum until '59.

SN

jet1 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:05 pm

...air planes actually flying---at a museum? sacrilege!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:12 am

Very cool stuff. Wild seeing the planes I know this way.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:14 am

jet1 wrote:

...air planes actually flying---at a museum? sacrilege!

The museum actually hosts several flying events every year. These events include that Air Tattoo, the WWI fly In, and the L bird fly in.

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:59 am

jet1 wrote:

...air planes actually flying---at a museum? sacrilege!

Hmmm.

The Canadian Aviation Museum hosts regular fly ins, and guest aircraft you can fly in, such as Lockheed 10A CF-TCA of Air Canada.

The RAAF Museum has five airworthy aircraft and flies one, or a guest aircraft, three times a week.

The SAAF Museum has a flying Mustang, as was pointed out to me earlier.

The Shuttleworth Collection, and the Temora Aviation Museum are two museums I know where the objective is to fly as near as 'all' as possible. There's a lot more.

(Of course there's all the 'fliers' at Yanks ~are they your heroes?~ which aren't - with a couple of exceptions. Be wary of crude, inaccurate labels.)

There's a lot out there when you get around a bit...

gary1954 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:44 am

JDK wrote:

jet1 wrote:

...air planes actually flying---at a museum? sacrilege!

Hmmm.

The Canadian Aviation Museum hosts regular fly ins, and guest aircraft you can fly in, such as Lockheed 10A CF-TCA of Air Canada.

The RAAF Museum has five airworthy aircraft and flies one, or a guest aircraft, three times a week.

The SAAF Museum has a flying Mustang, as was pointed out to me earlier.

The Shuttleworth Collection, and the Temora Aviation Museum are two museums I know where the objective is to fly as near as 'all' as possible. There's a lot more.

(Of course there's all the 'fliers' at Yanks ~are they your heroes?~ which aren't - with a couple of exceptions. Be wary of crude, inaccurate labels.)

There's a lot out there when you get around a bit...

Does the Duxford Collection fall under the umbrella of the Imperial War Museum, and doesn't Duxford "Fly" a selected few of their examples of Warbirds annually as well? just axing a querstion here..

APG85 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:26 am

That was great! Thanks for posting the link...

TAdan · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:44 am

Anyone else have a sudden urge to go and find four F-100's and put a Thunderbird Heritage flight together? :lol:

blurrkup · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:32 am

gary1954 wrote:

JDK wrote:

jet1 wrote:

...air planes actually flying---at a museum? sacrilege!

Hmmm.

The Canadian Aviation Museum hosts regular fly ins, and guest aircraft you can fly in, such as Lockheed 10A CF-TCA of Air Canada.

The RAAF Museum has five airworthy aircraft and flies one, or a guest aircraft, three times a week.

The SAAF Museum has a flying Mustang, as was pointed out to me earlier.

The Shuttleworth Collection, and the Temora Aviation Museum are two museums I know where the objective is to fly as near as 'all' as possible. There's a lot more.

(Of course there's all the 'fliers' at Yanks ~are they your heroes?~ which aren't - with a couple of exceptions. Be wary of crude, inaccurate labels.)

There's a lot out there when you get around a bit...

Does the Duxford Collection fall under the umbrella of the Imperial War Museum, and doesn't Duxford "Fly" a selected few of their examples of Warbirds annually as well? just axing a querstion here..

Duxford is part of the Imperial War Museum. The aircraft that the IWM own are all static examples. Duxford is a live museum though as there are other collections based there; TFC, OFMC, ARCo, HAC, Sally B and a couple of others, that all have flying aircraft.

Django · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:41 am

That is a great home movie. And it's very cool to see the F-100 Thunderbirds.

Hawkeye · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:13 pm

How much of that stuff is still around? Where is that Ju-88 and B-24 today? Was it all kept?

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:20 pm

The B-24 is Strawberry B*tch, and is still at the NMUSAF. Don't know about the Ju-88.

What got me were the P-61 and Me-262 next to each other, stored outdoors! I guess those were the days, huh? Wow!

kevin

jet1 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:21 pm

I try to get over there as often as I can. They don't push them to had but flyin is flyin!

Does the Duxford Collection fall under the umbrella of the Imperial War Museum, and doesn't Duxford "Fly" a selected few of their examples of Warbirds annually as well? just axing a querstion here..[/quote]

jet1 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:00 pm

TAdan wrote:

Anyone else have a sudden urge to go and find four F-100's and put a Thunderbird Heritage flight together? :lol:

It will be a sacrifice on my part but I'll do it for aviation's sake!

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