| [GMCnet] A Bit Off Topic - Air and Space Museum West of Omaha [message #188453] |
Sat, 27 October 2012 17:23  |
k2gkk
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One of my fellow members of the Air Force Radar Sites Veterans
posted the following about the subject museum.
In addition to being a USAF Radar Site veteran, at one time my
other "car" was a B-52. This is a GREAT museum!
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"Got back from Omaha late Monday night. Visited the Air & Space
Museum last Saturday. If you get the chance you have to see it.
It is unbelievable. I don't know how big that monstrous building
is, but all the aircraft are displayed inside.
To give you an idea I can remember these on display all on one floor:
Grumman Goose, B-45, B-17, 2 B-25's, B-47, B-58, SR71, B-52H, B-36,
F-86, a couple of others I can't recall. In addition there were many
model displays and also the B-52 Nav and EWO trainers and a couple of
vehicles. These were all in one room and adjacent was another area
you couldn't get into but had floor to ceiling windows so you could
see the others they were working on like a Mig-21, and 2 (I think) C-54s.
There were also flight simulators, that for $5.00 you could play pilot.
Another area was dedicated to robots that the kids were having a load
of fun playing with. Of course a gift shop and a snack bar appropiately
called the "Pilot's Lunch".
If your in the area it's a mast see. It is located about 23 miles west
of Omaha on I-80."
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| Re: [GMCnet] A Bit Off Topic - Air and Space Museum West of Omaha [message #188513 is a reply to message #188489] |
Sun, 28 October 2012 09:33  |
k2gkk
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I believe it is what STARTED as the SAC museum which
WAS actually on Offut AFB. I'm not positive, but I
suspect that with the closure of all bases to the
public after the muslim attacks of 9-11, it was no
longer possible to keep it on Offut. It is far larger
now than it ever was while ON Offut. I never got to
visit the original, even though my son-in-law was
stationed or worked there off and on from about 1990
until now. We went to the new one several years ago.
The scope is far beyond just SAC now.
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~ ~ ~ '76 ex-Palm Beach ~ ~ ~
~ www.gmcmhphotos.com/okclb ~
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> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> From: Acrosport2@hotmail.com
> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:48:51 -0500
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] A Bit Off Topic - Air and Space Museum West of Omaha
>
> Isn't that the SAC museum (Strategic Air Command)
> --
> Randy
> 1973 26' Painted Desert
> Ahwatukee (Phoenix) AZ
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