Dayton USAF Museum Pics!

[John Howling Mouse]

A friend of mine brought back 124 photos he took while at Dayton's US Air Force Museum last week.

Subjects range from Wright Bros' two-seater to B-2 Stealth Bomber and F-22.
Includes NASA items, ordnance, memorials, bipes, Cold War missiles, etc.

If you want to see some, PM me and I'll e-mail the ones you're most interested in.

Question:
Was "Fat Man" really painted this way?



And what is this?



Never realized how cool a B-52 would look in my living room:



Disco Scorpion, anyone?

[Iranian F-14A]

The 2nd plane looks like a C-7 Caribou.

[Chris707]

John:

A neighbor of mine was on Tinian in Aug '45 and in a position to see at least some of the 509th's activites - time and impairment have rendered the details of his recollections suspect (and that's his own words), but I remember him telling me about the "orange A-bomb" he saw - I mentioned that said ordnance might be one of the "Pumpkin" devices - he conceded that might have been the case, but the orange or red bomb had stuck in his memory as the real deal...

FWIW

Chris

[Captain Canada]

And what is this?

Good Lord, Bazman...you can't be serious ? It's not only the greatest STOL bird ever, it's CDN !



Nice shots. Did he take any more of the Bou ?

 

[John Howling Mouse]

And what is this?

Good Lord, Bazman...you can't be serious ? It's not only the greatest STOL bird ever, it's CDN !



Nice shots. Did he take any more of the Bou ?

I couldn't tell.  The rear exhausts or whatever threw me off.

The lighting wasn't very good.

I was confused by the angle.

LOCUSTS!!!!  

(Jake Blues)

Nope, no other shots of it.

[Captain Canada]

I had a flat tire ! I ran out of gas ! I tried to guess what it was......it wasn't my fault !!!!!



Love that movie. Too bad there's no more piccies of her. Nice to see she's indoors, tho. And it sure is a shot worth saving for the details.

[CanisD]

Sorta makes sense that the bombs would be painted for high-vis. If something happened you'd want to be able to find the darn things as quickly as possible!