Not Really My Thing-Updated With Pictures

[Mike J]

So being off work this week my wife decided I should take my boy on a field trip. I said something about it to my buddy & he said he wanted to go. It appears I will be going to the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins tomorrow.
https://museumofaviation.org/visit/plan-your-visit

 

[Mobuck]

Probably lots of interesting things to see even you're not really interested.

 

[Mike J]

Probably lots of interesting things to see even you're not really interested.

It will be fun. My boy is crazy interested in planes now. My buddy is a Navy Vet. He will probably be as excited as the boy. I got to go to the one in Pensacola a few years ago when I was down there visiting my sister & her husband. It isn't my thing but everyone else having fun will make it worthwhile.

 

[Kevin]

Sounds like a lot of fun! Post some pictures if you can.

 

[KIR]

Our instructor in a Gardening class in middle school once had us write letters to Air Plane manufactuers (North American, Douglass, Boeing, etc.) and ask if they could send us some pictures of the airplanes/jets they made. We got back some beautiful prints, suitable for framing. Thus he taught us how to write letters and were rewarded by the pictures we got back.
Years later, I learned that states will send you state maps if you write and ask. Helps kids and gives them something to do.

 

[WendyZXZ]

That does sound like it is a great and fun time!

 

[blume357]

You don't have to be a fan of something to actually enjoy most museums.... just interesting to see and more often than not learn something new.
Way back when I was in school they would try to teach us something about art and I remember the pictures done by the Dutch Masters of those old guys with funny hats.... pretty boring stuff.... then about 15 years ago I was standing in a Museum in Amsterdam looking at one of those paintings and I actually got it.... totally amazed at how the artist had been able to paint light.

 

[Mike J]

 

[Mike J]

 

[Mike J]

 

[Mike J]

Okay so for whatever reason it isn't letting me add any text to the pictures. Probably because they are huge. The first picture is a B17 Flying Fortress. The second a B1B. The third an A-10 Warthog.

 

[Mike J]

This is a B-29. Interesting note. The A bomb was big enough they couldn't drive the plane over it to load it. They dug a hole in the ground and put the bomb in it so they could drive the plane over the top & load it.

 

[Mike J]

If I got this right this is a HH-53 helicopter.

 

[bigbillyboy]

Future aviator ,

 

[Mike J]

SR-71 Blackbird

 

[Mike J]

Other side of the Hh-53.

 

[Mike J]

P-40 Mustang

 

[Mike J]

Okay so I think that is all the pictures I took. In all honesty I couldn't have gotten a picture of everything. I believe a person could spend a lot of time there & still not see everything. Nice place with helpful people & a lot of aircraft & information.
Edited to add: That is my oldest daughter under the B-1B in the first picture. My son was so excited he could hardly contain himself.
My buddy had fun too. His only complaint was the lack of Navy planes as it is an Air Force museum. I told him we saw lots of Navy planes when we went to the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola.

 

[AzGeno]

Really a neat museum ! I’d like to see that one day. Love planes.

 

[Mike J]

Really a neat museum ! I'd like to see that one day. Love planes.

The scary part is there are many planes outside. We just went through the buildings. We did drive the road that goes around the perimeter where many planes are but we did not get out & read all the information. There is too much there.

 

[Kevin]

Awesome! Thanks for the pictures. It looks like a great place.

 

[eveled]

Outstanding!

 

[Snake45]

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P-40 Mustang

No, that's a P-40N Warhawk, apparently incorrectly painted as an AVG "Flying Tiger." (Unless General Scott actually flew an N-model marked that way later on in the war--I'd have to research it.)

 

[Snake45]

Okay so for whatever reason it isn't letting me add any text to the pictures. Probably because they are huge. The first picture is a B17 Flying Fortress. The second a B1B. The third an A-10 Warthog.

Apparently a minor board hitch--I've had the same thing happen when I quote another post. I found out all you have to do is hit your refresh button, and the page will repaint with space to add your text, the way it should have originally. Not a bid deal.

See, you DID learn something today! ;)

 

[Mike J]

No, that's a P-40N Warhawk, apparently incorrectly painted as an AVG "Flying Tiger." (Unless General Scott actually flew an N-model marked that way later on in the war--I'd have to research it.)

I may have remembered wrong. I was trying to remember the correct nomenclature. My eleven year old son is actually more knowledgeable about all of this than I am. I remember seeing the "God is my co-pilot" bumper stickers in the 70's but I did not realize it was a book & a movie. They had a large area in the biggest building dedicated to his stuff & one of the smaller buildings named after him. You reminded me I'm going to search the streaming services & see if I can find that movie.

 

[KIR]

SR-71 #17958 is a speed record holder which is still held today. Interestingly enough the throttles were set not to exceed certain limits, so it has actually never achieved its maximum speed

 

[dannyd]

One of my favorite Pilots from Georgia. This is kind of guy you work 18 hours a day to keep his aircraft up and running.

Anthony "Tony" Cushenberry


https://www.gaaviationhalloffame.com/hall-of-fame/?no_cache=1&tx_providersearch_providersearchfe[provider]=3362&tx_providersearch_providersearchfe[action]=show&tx_providersearch_providersearchfe[controller]=Provider&cHash=846b930695b0e55964b389a349eb72e4

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

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That B-17 picture triggered my memory. My wife's uncle, Robert (Bob) Mazzacane, was a radio operator on B-17 "Rosie's Riveters" (418th Bomber Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group) on the day it was shot down over Germany (May 12, 1944). Bob and the other crewmembers bailed out and were captured. Bob fractured his hip (which was later replaced multiple times). Bob remained a PoW until war's end. The link below includes an interview given by a civilian, Markus Obel, who as a youth lived near the site where the B-17 crashed.

Spin fast forward to 2005. Mazzacane, by then my son's godfather, gave my son (a Chinook maintainer then stationed in Germany with the Army's 1st Armored Division) contact information about the German civilian, Obel, who had given that interview. My son made contact with, and then had a lengthy visit with Obel. This was a great way to "close the loop" and made Bob Mazzacane a happy man.

During and after his 40+ career as an electrical engineer with GE, Bob undertook the role as an unofficial historian/biographer of the 418th Bomber Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group. In his will, Bob bequeathed all of his WW II documents to my son. Those documents contain a trove of fascinating information about Bob's fellow crew members and their unit.

https://www.100thbg.org/index.php?option=com_bombgrp&view=personnel&Itemid=334&id=3408

 

[48flyer]

I was stationed at Robbins 30 years ago. It appears the museum has increased in size considerably. Thanks for pictures

 

[pyth0n]

No, that's a P-40N Warhawk, apparently incorrectly painted as an AVG "Flying Tiger." (Unless General Scott actually flew an N-model marked that way later on in the war--I'd have to research it.)

Scott may have flown the N after the 14th AAF moved in & appropriated the Flying Tiger name & emblem. The AVG flew up to the E, IIRC.
(I confused Him with Prescott at first).