A bit of a mixture here; the larger presidential a/c are tricky to photograph in the circumstances. However you can get into each of them and it was interesting to see how basic the earlier ones were. It was also quite poignant to be able to stand on the spot LBJ was as he was sworn in as president after the assassination of JFK.
The special lift for FDR was interesting to see.
The walkways between the four mega-galleries are really well used. There’s a display on the first Americans to reach the Holocaust camps artefacts, a display case with the “pyjamas” in and very clear and well worded placards, another one on the Berlin Airlift and then there’s the walk-way between 3 and 4. It’s done up as a missile silo and you stand at the base of various missiles, Minuteman, Thor etc – the photo is taken from the first floor viewing platform so you get the idea of the size.
Nice to see a Tornado (ours not B-45). The F-4G was a good catch because it’s one of the few to be refitted with the single piece windscreen; noticeable that the Perspex on that Phantom and the F-111F had discoloured so much.
One more to come from Dayton then it’s off to Pax River (a totally different photo challenge) and Udvar-Hazy.
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