A friend just sent me this link to pictures from the Airforce Museum. Look like quite a collection.
http://www.cdsg.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=381

I taught a painting class to the restoration crew there about 10 years ago. It's one awesome collection! We were there about 4 days and never even came close to seeing it all.... but saw most of the stuff they have out for the general public, as well as all the stuff they were working on. I got to touch a few of my favorites...Valkrie, XP-75, B36, JU52-3m...... awesome stuff there and sooooo much history!!
One thing that really got to me was when we were going through all the ex-presidential planes, and were standing in the rear of the 707 (s/n 26000), and Geno was giving me some history on the plane, and he looked at me and said, "you're standing in the same spot that Kennedy's casket was hauled home in..... I can't quite explain the feeling, but it still gets to me. It's one thing to hear it, but another to actually stand there.
Thanks for that link.
John

That's an amazing collection! I found this too: http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/full/tour-std.html

As an ex crew member I was recently invited to the Museum for the dedication of one of our old Sikorsky HH3E helicopters ( Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron).

Prior to the dedication I wandered around the building looking at some of the other displays

I had no idea it was so big and so well presented. I must return for a more in depth visit. It was just fantastic.

There are presently three hangars all the same size. I don't know how big they are but in the one I was viewing there was a B 52 and a B 47 off in one corner!

I noticed a recent announcement that Boeing had donated big bucks for the construction of a 4th hangar.

I look fwd to visiting it again, especially since they now have Jolly 22 on display and I can remember seeing that helicopter with 98 bullet holes in it.

Jaerl wrote:That's an amazing collection! I found this too: http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/full/tour-std.html

That is awesome! Good find!

That went into my favorites. Thanks

Whoever made the Virtual Tour did an amazing job! You can read all the plaques on the walls too. Lots of descriptions and photos. Where are more airplane museums? I've run into a couple in my travels but never actually planed a trip top see one. If anyone knows how to build Google Earth Maps, that would be a great having one of Airplane Museums and the likes.

We could make that a stop on the front or rear end of the Ohio Bush Planes / Graham Field fly-in this year?? Anyone know any generals that could open up the runway at the museum to 50 tail draggers on Oct 1st? My brother is a colonial out at the skunk works; I'll run this idea past him.

A number of years ago (maybe 10 or 12??), there was a GA fly-in at Wright-Pat. When they stopped doing it, I called to find out why. The reason was that the guy who made the arrangements had retired and no-one took it over. Now you have to fly in to another airport (Greene?), get a taxi to the museum. PG, if you can arrange a fly-in there that would be great!

ASW.