For those of us less cultured or just plain uninterested in “fine art” I highly recommend the Museum of the Air Force. Virtual tours including 360 degree images of cockpits of everthing from WWI to the space shuttle and the SR71.
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.
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!