Visit to the Eighth Air Force Museum

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Visit to the Eighth Air Force Museum

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Here are some pictures I think. Of a 190 fighter.
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Forgot to post

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Try try again.
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Here is a

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With one of the German late War Jet fighters I ME-163 Komet.
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Here is a P51-Mustang

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This was in pretty good condition.
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Here it is again but

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from the underside.
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Here is both of them

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together. I wish I could remember the name of that German Jet fighter.
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Here is the 190

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from the front. Looks a lot like the P51 mustang. First thought it was a 109.
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Here is a actual B47

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Boomer that they had on display.
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They did not have any actual

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B-17's or B-24's on display but they had lots of models and pictures of them. They also had a lot of film, which they were showing that was pretty amazing.
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They also

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had a lot of other war time stuff, look at these time magazine issues doesn't it remind you of the last one just put out???
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Picture of the

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50cals that were used on the B-17's and B24's
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The museum

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Was really good they had lots of documents and records on how the Germans would break up the flying fortresses formations so that they could get inside the formations and do more damage and the costs in lives and planes of the strategic runs that were made. It was quite sobering the number of planes and lives that were lost. Also the working conditions. -30 to -70 degrees celcius in the B-17's and B24's during booming runs. :eek:
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Well I hope you liked the

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Pictures, the museum again was really good and at $7 a pop you can not beat the price. It had a lot of auxilary things related to the Eighth airforce also. What would happen to the pilots that were shot down, concentration camp stuff, and a whole history of the war with lots of very good pictures. I would recommend it to everyone.
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That jet fighter is Me-163 Komet if I'm not mistaken.
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Nice pictures

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Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. Stationed there for 4 years. What would posses a Yankee to go to La on vacation?:D :) :confused: :confused: :confused:
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Post by Bing »

Nice pictures, a bit odd they don't have a B-17, isn't it?

THe Me-163 was rocket powered, not jet, as such it was the first (maybe only) operational rocket powered combat aircraft in WW2.

The Me-262 was Germany's jet entry; supposedly the first operational turbojet combat aircraft. Last time I was in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry they had a Me-262 on display - not hung from the ceiling, either. I remember the skin, or covering, impressed me as a bit tacky. But, then, the aircraft was old 30 or 40 years ago.

History Channel runs a feature on the Me-163 now and then, devoting a lot of time to the fuel. There are a couple of things I would never, ever have done for a living. Preparing the fuel and fueiling up the Me-163 is way high on the list.

Not sure how effective the Me-163 really was, it had something like a 20 or 25 minute total flight time, one pass, that was about it.

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awesome pics
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Great

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Thats in Savannah, isn't it?
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Oooh, time for another URL! <G>

http://www.stormbirds.com/

The ME-262 pages - including the restoration/*new manufacture* now happening at Paine Field in Everett, Washington (AKA Snohomish County Airport). Birds have *flown*, even to the point of having a landing-gear collapse on one.

I'm out there around the first week of July for vacation, and **** well will *remember* to go there this time! (I remembered them as I was headed back to Spokane last year. <sigh>)

And *three* are still for sale! <droooool>
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Veeery cool, Karnaaj!

To think projects like this even exists. Ahh there's hope for humanity. Can somebody lend me a Panther so I can start building some replicas? :cool:

Now, let's start a fund-raiser to get those $ 2,000,000+ and we can have our own Steel Panthers Me262. :D
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