My Photos From

June 25, 2001

FINALLY got them scanned! Wahoo! These photos were taken with a Samsung Maxima Zoom 105 AF 35mm camera. I visited while I was in Ohio working for the Park Service. Seeing all the planes was SO much fun. I want to go back, since they've built more hangar space (the new hangar is devoted to interpreting the Cold War) and moved a lot of aircraft, the museum will definitely not look the same as it did when I was there. And that's not a bad thing. The photos are arranged according to the floor plan as it was, and not as it will be.

10-26-03: The AF Museum is in the process of revamping the website to match the changes in the museum proper. As a result, I have taken down the links to the individual museum galleries. Click on the Museum banner above to be taken to the website. Check often, as I'm sure the site will change as they get everything organized.

The Early Years
I took photos of the World War One aircraft!! *grin*

Fokker's D.1.
Looks pretty average, doesn't it? Well, click HERE and you will see that everything is not always what it seems. That plane is a TRIplane!! Very cool because they have it hanging so that if you're standing directly underneath it, you can't tell it's a tri unless you move to the side.

• Fokker D.VII biplane and Caquot Type R Observation Balloon
• Spad VII
• Nieuport 28

Air Power

My favorite photo of all that I took that day!! These are the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, the North American P-51D Mustang, and the Waco CG-4A Hadrian (yes, it's a glider). I didn't realize, until I saw the finished photo, that the Hadrian was hanging almost perfectly centered above the 'Bolt and the 'Stang. Way way cool!!

• Lockheed P-38L Lightning
• Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
• DeHavilland DH 98 Mosquito
• Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI
• Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 Gustav
• Douglas A-20G Havoc
• Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
• Consolidated B-24D Liberator
• North American B-25B Mitchell
• Boeing B-29 Superfortress nose art
• North American F-82B Twin Mustang

Korean Conflict

The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin and the Convair B-36J. Be sure you read the Goblin's biography, as the history of the (very short-lived) program is rather fascinating. Look at the damn thing--it's a jet engine with a cockpit and winglets!!!!

• North American F-86A Sabre and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot
• North American F-100C Super Sabre
• Sikorsky UH-19B Chickasaw

Modern Flight

Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. Nothing else needs to be said.

• Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II
  The P-47 and the A-10 are my FAVORITE warbirds....heh the tank killers *GRIN*.
  
• Lockheed-Boeing-General Dynamics YF-22 Raptor
• Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk
• Bell UH-1P Iroquois (HUEY!!)
• Boeing B-52D Stratofortress and Lockheed U-2A
• the back end of the Boeing B-52D Stratofortress
• Boeing B-52D Stratofortress and General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon
• Lockheed U-2A
• Republic F-105D Thunderchief
• North American F-86D Sabre snout art
• McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle
• General Dynamics F-111F Aardvark
• North American X-15A-2

Air Park

The AirPark is probably the exhibit that has changed the most. The missles, as it says, have been taken down until the new Missle Hall is finished. Hopefully with the new hangar, a lot of the aircraft can go indoors too. I didn't take all that many photos outside, but here are the aircraft I photographed.

Lockheed AC-130 Spectre Gunship

Rockwell International B-1A Lancer

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23MLD (FLOGGER K)

Research and Development Hangar

Lockheed AC-130A Spectre Gunship aka Azrael Angel of Death

• Spectre snout art
• Douglas B-26K (A-26A) Counter Invader
• McDonnell Douglas F-4G Wild Weasel
• North American F-100 Super Sabre