New England Air Museum

[c-series don 10,023]

We were in northern Connecticut today to look at purchasing a camper( which we did!) and had some time to kill, so this is where we went. I took some pictures for you folks! 

[ebinmaine 72,609]

Cool stuff Don! 

[adsm08 3,232]

45 minutes ago, c-series don said:

 

Humina humina humina.

 

B-29 is my second favorite plane ever. I cried watching the PBS documentary about Kee Bird.

[PWL216 1,092]

I was an airframes structures mechanic on the A4 Skyhawks in the Marines back in the day - so I’m partial to them

[Dan 312-8 106]

@c-series don very cool! Thank you for posting.

You know you are getting older when three aircraft you have worked on are now represented in a museum...

F-14 Tomcat (Anytime Baby!), AH-1 Cobra, and UH-1 Huey.

The F-14 from VF-143, squadron name, "The Puking Dogs"

 

Dan

[Treepep 684]

 

 

Very cool.  Many thanks!  Dad and granddad were Air force.  Grampa was a pilot, Dad was a Mechanic.  Growing up in the Midwest we would go to S.A.C museum and airshows.  Folks would gather around to listen to them thinking they worked there being so knowledgeable.  As a kid it made little sense.  Just proud and could not comprehend how they gathered so much information about aircraft.

 

Thanks,  Great memories!

[peter lena 9,261]

@c-series don   thank you for that , done the boeing  air museum  , and the    https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/  oregon  , walked the howard hughes  wooden flying boat  there , lots of  european  fighters , another neat on is on the way to the grand canyon , just before  going on to indian nation radio drive in .to canyon  grandson , marines , crew chief c-130-j , he walks his aircraft  daily  ,  pete 

[lynnmor 7,814]

23 hours ago, c-series don said:

We were in northern Connecticut today to look at purchasing a camper( which we did!) and had some time to kill, so this is where we went. I took some pictures for you folks! 

 

 

So will that little robot zap you if you step over the chain?

[Beap52 1,417]

Yesterday I was setting in the shop sipping tea with a neighbor when I heard a twin engine airplane flying over.  Those old twin engine prop planes make a unique sound as they lumber along.  I don't know what kind it was but the bright polished aluminum shown brightly.  By the time I found my binoculars, it was too far gone.  We wondered if it was heading southwest from the Oshkosh fly in. I'm glad there are folks out there that have the resources to preserve these flying machines and still use them.

[ebinmaine 72,609]

4 minutes ago, Beap52 said:

Yesterday I was setting in the shop sipping tea with a neighbor when I heard a twin engine airplane flying over.  Those old twin engine prop planes make a unique sound as they lumber along.  I don't know what kind it was but the bright polished aluminum shown brightly.  By the time I found my binoculars, it was too far gone.  We wondered if it was heading southwest from the Oshkosh fly in. I'm glad there are folks out there that have the resources to preserve these flying machines and still use them.

 

 

Bunches of them will be in Maine this coming weekend.