The Ultimate aviation museum display

[warbirddriver]

Ok gang here is the question: you have an aviation museum and you are looking for the ultimate display. The "dead sea scrolls" or Bonny and Clyde's car of aviation. What would it be? And it doesn't necessarily have to be an aircraft. thanks for your input.

Glenn

[Trey Carroll]

Well, down at Neal Melton's place, the TN Museum of Aviation, they have General Doolittle's Medal of Honor, that is incredible, how they got it I don't know but it's really cool, that would be a big item in any museum, you gotta go see it.

Trey

[Bill Greenwood]

The tablet with Moses 10 Commandments on it would be a pretty good start, especially if it came with carrying case- arc.

[warbirddriver]

Bill,

you are not taking this very seriously. Stay after class and clean the black-boards!

[bdk]

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed fresh from Nikumaroro Island along with her shoe.

[Chris Brame]

Or L'Oiseau Blanc, straight from the woods of Maine...

[T33driver]

Lombardi's Fedora...

ok, one of the prominent aces' aircraft like Bader, Bong, Gabreski, Johnnie Johnson, O'Hare etc. Any aircraft like that in existence? I know Gen Olds' F-4 is at the AF Museum.

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[mustangdriver]

The Hughes XF-11.

[HOLLOWAYRANGER]

The deputy fuhrer Rudoff Hess's Me 110 at the imperial war museum london well whats left of it

also the supermarine s.6 at the london science museum which won the schneider trophy in 1931 setting a new world speed record of 332mph and would go on to be known as the granddady of the spitfire

the trophy is there too as we brits won it 3 years in a row

[Steve Nelson]

How about the entire 'Lady Be Good,' transplanted "as discovered" to a museum, complete with the chunk of Sahara in which she rested.

Or maybe that Doolittle Raider B-25 the Russians supposedly have hidden away somewhere...

SN

[HOLLOWAYRANGER]

what about the first bomber to drop an A bomb is it still around if so wins hands down unless the wright brothers plane still exists

[k5083]

A room containing all of the airplanes in which the highest award for valor (Victoria Cross, Medal of Honor, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre, Iron Cross with Diamonds, Order pour le Merite, Hero of the Soviet Union, etc.) of major combatants was achieved; or, in cases where the award was for a career rather than a single engagement, one airplane from that airman's career. Perhaps with some balancing correction for the fact that countries differed in how readily they awarded their top honor (e.g. VC was given less liberally than MoH). Only a handful of the real airplanes that would to into this exhibit actually exist, of course, and in many cases no examples of the entire type exist; also the exhibit would contain quite a few heavy bombers so it would need a big room. But it is a fantasy question after all.

August

[HELLDIVERS]

Hi,


The first atomic strike aircraft Enola Gay has been on display for a few years now. The second atomic strike a/c Bocks Car has been displayed for many years at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton Ohio

Thanks Mike

[RickH]

I'm pretty sure that the Wright 1903 Flyer has been on constant display somewhere except during the WWII years. It's been on public view in a little museum in Washington since WWII.

[Tim Landers]

I'd like to see one of the original AVG Flying Tiger P-40 B/C in a museum