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The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:08 pm

For those of you that keep track of these things, this museum has changed its name to the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum http://sasmuseum.com

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:53 pm

Pat Carry wrote:For those of you that keep track of these things, this museum has changed its name to the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum http://sasmuseum.com


I just think of it as "The place that has the only B-36 I haven't seen."

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:54 pm

Here's one to look at anytime you like :)
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Edit - Not meaning to hijack the thread, this is just one of my favorite B-36 pictures. Carry on. :)
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Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:05 pm

A spectacular photograph... :)

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:17 am

Spectre_I wrote:Here's one to look at anytime you like :)
Image

Edit - Not meaning to hijack the thread, this is just one of my favorite B-36 pictures. Carry on. :)

Its even better now thats it is inside!

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:07 am

Pat Carry wrote:

Its even better now thats it is inside!
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Pat, Spectre's photo is the B-36 at the Castle Museum in California- decidedly outside.

The SAC B-36 is indeed now inside.

So for B-36's we have:
Dayton and Nebraska: inside
Pima, Castle: outside (also outside :XC-99 disassembled at Dayton, and remains at Soplata farm)

I do want to get the Nebraska museum, just don't have much of a reason to be in that part of the country...

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:02 am

We were there a few years back when the museum hosted a gathering of the Band of Brothers. A real nice museum it is.

Re: The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Nebraska

Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:19 pm

I got to visit there during an "after hours" event a few years ago in conjunction with the IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) National Convention, which was being held in Omaha. A really awesome facility..they even let us climb into the cockpit of the B-36. I once got to visit the flight deck of the NMUSAF B-36, but that was some 20 years ago when they still occasionally had "open cockpit" events.

SN
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