Posted on 04/05/2020 1:52:16 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
It’s not a tour unless you have the kids in the backseat of the car asking “Are we there yet?”
Wow! Awesome collection!
I was a little bothered by the Junkers JU 88D, there is some radio equipment in there that is clearly US made, but I guess original German WWII avionics is hard to come by!
Thanks for mentioning that museum.
Thanks for the list
Thanks again
They would love to go.
As soon as this is over and the economy booms again, I'm going to take my family on a nice long trip. Can't wait!
That is a great museum! One of the things I really liked (besides everything that scratches the itch of any aviation junkie) is the table cloth that Jimmy Doolittle’s wife began back in the 1930’s, where she had house guests (to her parties, for which she was famous) sign the table cloth, and later, she would embroider their signatures on it.
She even got Orville Wright’s signature on it before he died. It is a “Who’s Who” of aviation, all those names we are so familiar with.
I had a funny story about that Museum...some years back, my buddy and I were going to the big airshow in Oshkosh, and we drove straight through which was about a 12 hour ride and we arrived at around 4:00 AM and the museum didn’t open until 9:00 AM, so we found an empty parking lot and crashed for a few hours, surrounded by the detritus of our journey, soda bottles, empty bags of junk food, etc.
We awoke to car doors around us, and saw people and their families in their Sunday best looking curiously at us as they walked by...we had crashed in a church parking lot and it was Sunday morning!
Visiting the Acropolis it’s amusing to hear the tour guide whine about the British Museum keeping them and this was almost 25 years ago.
Back In the 1970s when I first visited Greece, the guide on the Acropolis complained about Lord Elgin and his placing the Marbles in the British Museum.
I said to her: "I just wish he'd gotten the Victory of Samothrace and the Venus di Milo before they got their arms knocked off."
She didn't like that.
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