98Z5V Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 @Rsquared, thought you'd like this one, brother. This is badass as all hell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 The U2 is going to be at EAA this year, I’m hoping to see it fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 Cooler than cool. That is, still today, a very impressive aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armed Eye Doc Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 There is/was one on the USS Intrepid museum in NYC. It is a very cool place to visit. There are planes from multiple eras available for viewing there. There is/was one of the space shuttles on a nearby barge as well. It's been over 20 years since I have been though. It would be much better if it weren't in NY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 Yes. An old friend of mine used to work for the Smithsonian restoring aircraft. He got me and some other buddies into the old Garber facility over a weekend one time. We were able to just wonder around at out own pace and actually crawl around inside a bunch of their old warbirds. We even got to go through their environmentally controlled vault storing the old Apollo space suits. He said that they called that room the morgue cause the way it looked with the suits laid out on slabs. A very cool day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooterrex Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 21 minutes ago, Armed Eye Doc said: There is/was one on the USS Intrepid museum in NYC. It is a very cool place to visit. There are planes from multiple eras available for viewing there. There is/was one of the space shuttles on a nearby barge as well. It's been over 20 years since I have been though. It would be much better if it weren't in NY. The Air and Space mesuem by Dulles airport has a SR71 and a Space shuttle in it. Lots of other really cool planes. The Enola Gay is also there. Much better place to visit than NY city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted Thursday at 06:45 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 06:45 PM I've seen two of them, one at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson AZ and the other at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson KS. The Cosmosphere also has an Apollo era Lunar Excursion Module and Lunar Rover on display together. They are the ones who did all the Apollo mockups for the Apollo 13 movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted Friday at 02:24 AM Report Share Posted Friday at 02:24 AM Used to have an A12, the CIA version of the SR 71, on display at the Minneapolis ANG museum, but it got moved years ago. Enjoyed inspecting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted Saturday at 01:12 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 01:12 AM A picture of the A 12 that was at the Minneapolis ANG museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted Saturday at 04:07 AM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 04:07 AM 3 hours ago, Sisco said: A picture of the A 12 that was at the Minneapolis ANG museum. A12 Oxcart was the shiit! The predecessor, and identical to the SR71. It's weird, how small the aircraft really is, in person - and how gimundous it looks in pics on the 'net. I stood under one in a Seattle museum, just like in the pic above. Before that, in my mind, that nosecone was like 18 feet off the ground! Nope. It's not a huge aircraft. It's shocking how small it really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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