NMUSAF BUFF noseart

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iainpeden
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NMUSAF BUFF noseart

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Apart from the a/c there’s a huge amount to see at the museum. There’s a whole space information section which I didn’t get into and the walkways between the 4 sections are well used; a display on the Berlin Airlift and another on the holocaust are both fantatically well presented. Air crew apparel through the years was another. One I wish I had a photo of was the “off-duty” flight suits by crews in Vietnam. Different squadrons dyed light cotton flight suits different colours, black, red, white, yellow etc – all with full rank markings.

This set are of nose art sections taken from scrapped BUFFS.

ImageIMG_7122 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7120 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7119 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7118 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7117 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7116 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7115 by Iain Peden, on Flickr

ImageIMG_7121 by Iain Peden, on Flickr
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That last one was used as the album cover for Molly Hatchet's 1979 Flirtin With Disaster. (Boogie No More is a particular favourite - very Lynrd Skynrd)
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Skynyrd - knebworth fayre, summer ‘76 and the grass smoke was filling the air. Not that I inhaled of course.
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