NMUSAF, museum expansion layout information

[Boeing666]

hopefully the usaf museum will cherry pick some of the aircraft slated for removal from the downsizing of the warner robbins museum in Georgia. how does 1 museum downsize while another grows?? it's like talking out of both sides of your mouth. I thought this sequestration / castration was across the board. I realize the usaf museum is oz for all of us, but come on!! the Georgia museum was certainly not a truckstop!!

Georgia Museum was already getting picked at the bones before Sequestration became a word in our vocabulary. I was there in January and already some planes that used to be there were gone like that English Electric Lightning and some were about to get moved like the B-57. I am glad I got there when I did. It is a great museum and hopefully they can keep it going. What is happening to the EC-121, EC-135 and C-124? There are only a handful of any Connies left, hate to see the EC-121 broken up. The only C-124s I know of are this one, Pimas and AFM and I believe one out in Nebraska some where.

[myteaquinn]

Does anyone know if there will be elevated viewing platforms in this building. It sure gives a different perspective on the aircraft when you look down on them. By the way what does the LN stand for?

Learning Node:
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared ... 30-002.jpg
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared ... 47-001.jpg

Thank you for the information BK

[sandiego89]

. The only C-124s I know of are this one, Pimas and AFM and I believe one out in Nebraska some where.

B666, wiki shows 10 C-124 survivors, some in better shape than others. Hope this one survives as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C- ... emaster_II

[Boeing666]

. The only C-124s I know of are this one, Pimas and AFM and I believe one out in Nebraska some where.

B666, wiki shows 10 C-124 survivors, some in better shape than others. Hope this one survives as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C- ... emaster_II

They probably will end up keeping it. From what I heard they were only keeping planes that had to do with being based there or Georgia aviation. They did have C-124s based at Warner Robbins according to the Wiki article.

[XL446]

Thanks for posting that link, Pat. With such a crowded hall it will still be a challenge to take good photos of the exhibits, however. If the museum were to park the current inmates of the Presidential hall outside for just a couple of weeks while moving them, I'd make a serious effort to be there.

[Pat Carry]

Thanks for posting that link, Pat. With such a crowded hall it will still be a challenge to take good photos of the exhibits, however. If the museum were to park the current inmates of the Presidential hall outside for just a couple of weeks while moving them, I'd make a serious effort to be there.

Hopefully the lighting in the new building will be 1,000% better than the lighting in the Cold War Gallery.

[Rob W]

Hopefully the lighting in the new building will be 1,000% better than the lighting in the Cold War Gallery.

I love the dramatic lighting within the Cold War gallery. Really allows a unique view of all of the aircraft. Very rewarding for photos too (a tripod is an absolute must...)!

[hang the expense]

Does anyone know if a specific C-5 Galaxy has been picked for display yet? Hopefully a Vietnam, Isreali lift, Gulf war I and II vet. I vote for a paint job in the early delivery C-5A scheme of gray and white- best looking by far. Current gray is a boring and Euro One cammo was ugly. I assume the C-141C is the Hanoi Taxi. Love the trash haulers!

They need to pull the plug out of the Hanoi taxi to make her right.It just aint the same bird the way she is now.

[Pat Carry]

Well nothing is written in stone except in the Flinstones. Plans for the layout in the new building have changed. The C-5, the KC-135 and the C-39 (I was definately looking forward to seeing this plane on display) are out and many planes from the Research and Development hangar are in. www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/ ... 30-003.jpg

[Steve Nelson]

They probably want to get as much of the contents of the old Annex hangars over to the main campus as possible..that way they won't have to worry about security briefings and shuttle buses and such, except for the "Behind The Scenes" tours (once the sequester is over.)

I'm thinking they'll have to ravamp/expand the WWII gallery once they get The Swoose finished..maybe the C-39 could go in there. Does anyone know where the Ju-52 ended up? I wonder if they'll divest themselves of the Spanish He-111 as well.

SN

[Pat Carry]

They probably want to get as much of the contents of the old Annex hangars over to the main campus as possible..that way they won't have to worry about security briefings and shuttle buses and such, except for the "Behind The Scenes" tours (once the sequester is over.)

I'm thinking they'll have to ravamp/expand the WWII gallery once they get The Swoose finished..maybe the C-39 could go in there. Does anyone know where the Ju-52 ended up? I wonder if they'll divest themselves of the Spanish He-111 as well.

SN

Will the sequester actually end someday?

Hopefully the lighting in the new building will be 1,000% better than the lighting in the Cold War Gallery.

I love the dramatic lighting within the Cold War gallery. Really allows a unique view of all of the aircraft. Very rewarding for photos too (a tripod is an absolute must...)!

To each his own I guess.......I'll take brighter lighting any time. The allowance of daylight such as they have at the Udvar-Hazy in Northern Virginia is much better in my opinion than the dim lighting in the AF Museum buildings.

[Rob W]

Well nothing is written in stone except in the Flinstones. Plans for the layout in the new building have changed. The C-5, the KC-135 and the C-39 (I was definately looking forward to seeing this plane on display) are out and many planes from the Research and Development hangar are in. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared ... 30-003.jpg

That layout looks much more intriguing than what was originally planned. Quite a bit more to look at in there, plus the addition of many of "X" planes. +1 in my opinion!

[Pat Carry]

I agree but I think having a C-5 inside as originally planned would have been pretty darn kool.

[WIXerGreg]

Does anyone know where the Ju-52 ended up?
SN

I know it had been up for sale and I noticed it was gone from the airpark on my last trip. The museum website now says that it's in storage, but it looks like the page was last revised in January of last year.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsh ... asp?id=785