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ISSUE
97 - December 2009
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Museum
of Flight (Boeing field) Part 1 |
By Bernard Zee,
Contributing Editor & Photographer
Fremont, California |
One of the must see places in Seattle,
WA (if you like anything about aviation at all) would be the
Museum of Flight. They have a wonderful collection of historical
planes displayed in an attractive and eye-catching manner.
They even have full motion flight simulators which you can
try flying (for an additional fee). A hint about that though,
if you elect to fly the non-combat jets, get some instruction
on which buttons to retract the landing gear and flaps. We
spent the entire time bumbling around barely able to get off
the ground in a F-22. The shame! The WWII combat missions were
more fun, and forgiving. After a couple of rounds, I was all
sweating from hanging upside down and spinning and such. Didn't
yak though, which is at least somewhat comforting. |
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Resting outside the front of the Museum
of Flight is a loaded up A-6 Intruder. |
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Beside it is one of my all time favorite
aircraft - the F-14 Tomcat, in Jolly Roger colors! |
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The Jolly Rogers of VF-84 is perhaps best
known for their movie appearance
in Final Countdown, flying
off the carrier USS Nimitz. For the longest time, I thoug
all F-14s were painted like that! :-) |
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My love for that color scheme was further
re-enforced by the Skull-1 Veritech
(from the Robotech Anime)-
which was a straight copy of the Jolly Rogers
F-14 paint job.
Oh yes, I'm such a geek! |
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Off on the other side of the building is
this AV-8C Harrier II. |
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A large and unique aircraft at the Musuem
is the WB-47E Stratojet. B-47 Stratojets
were a medium range,
medium bomber used by SAC in the 50's and 60's. The WB-47Es
were
modified for weather reconnaissance and were stripped of combat
gear, including
the tail turret. They were fitted with cameras
in the nose to take pictures of cloud
formations, and carried
a special meteorological instrument pod in the bomb bay. |
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As you walk into the main building's Great
Gallery, planes of all different
vintage can be seen on display. |
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Here, the Lockheed M-21 Blackbird takes
centerstage. The M-21 is a unique variant
of the A-12, which
carried unpiloted drones for intelligence gathering. Easily
mistaken
for the more famous SR-71 Blackbird - which everyone
is familiar with! |
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This Boeing 80A-1 was one of the first planes
to be designed fo
passenger service. That's a DC-3 behind
it. |
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Another shot of the awesome Blackbird. |
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A closer look at the nacelle of the Pratt & Whittney
J58 engine. |
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A MiG-21 PFM Fishbed-F is also displayed
in the gallery. |
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My daughter posing as a Sled driver! |
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One of the more awesome planes to see action
- the McDonnell F-4C (F-110A) Phantom II. This plane shot down
3 North Vietnamese Mig-21s. |
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The MiG-15 saw action in the Korean war
- where the first
jet vs. jet dogfight with F-80s occurred. |
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This A-4F Skyhawk is painted in Blue Angels
colors. |
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Small, light, and nimble, the Blues used
the Skyhawk as its
demonstration aircraft for 13 years. |
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In the WWII exhibit is this Supermarine
Spitfire Mk IX. |
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A Lockheed P-38L Lightning. |
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A beautiful Curtiss P-40N Warhawk, set in
its own diorama. |
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