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It was mind blowing coming face to face with the Horten Ho. It just wasn't long enough and I wish they could have locked me in for the weekend.
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I had the fourth best experience of my life wandering around there in 1976.
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There are a few outside plus four or more huge buildings full of displays.a great trip for an aircraft buff. There are three or four I've actually flown in their collection (T-41, T-37, OV-10A, and I think the T-38). He worked on them all between 19.Īlso, if you get the chance, its an easy 8 hour drive up the Interstates (or a short flight) from there to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton, Ohio, which has an enormous display (100s?) of retired and beautifully restored USAF aircraft of all types, from WWI to the 2000s. I wish I had thought to bring a camcorder to record the discussions.they would be priceless today as he started with old 1930 recips and early P&W WASPs and Catalina engines, to the P-38's Allison V-12 to the P-51's Merlins to the larger radials on the P-47, B-17s, and finally the C-97 and on to the turbo-props on the Herc. His explanation of how the engine technology evolved in the field (as opposed to the draft boards at the factory) was incredibly interesting.for instance not just that the Merlin was better than the Allison, but exactly why on a part-by-part basis. He was there on Dec 7, 1941, and later moved to England in 1944 (Andover, I think) as a P-38 line chief (and later with Mustangs) for the 402nd Fighter Squadron. He joined the US Army Air Corps in 1939 and trained as an engine mechanic working on B-18 bombers, OA-9 scout planes and P-40 fighters at Wheeler Field, Hawaii. I'm a pilot, so I naturally gravitate to airframes, but I took my father-in law to Dulles a few years ago and wound up spending four hours just in the engine display. Something I'd love to go and see someday, along will all the other amazing treasures at NASM.Īs I live nearby (5 miles away), I've visited the Dulles location many times to see the displays as they've grown over the last decade.