NASM P-61

[APG85]

Wasn't the NASM's P-61 suppose to be unveiled today? Anyone got any info?

[Pat Carry]

I just received electronic email newsletter today from Udvar Hazy and there is no mention of its unvieling. It did say however the next up tp be displayed is the Sikorsky H-34D "Seahorse".

[DaveM2]

Assembly was completed last week.

Dave

[frankspeaks]

their website just says that it went on public display in may 2006......


But 43-8830 was not done flying. NACA asked the Smithsonian to lend them the aircraft for use in another special program. The committee wanted to investigate how aerodynamic shapes behaved when dropped from high altitude. The Black Widow arrived at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, on February 14, 1951. NACA returned the aircraft and delivered it to the Smithsonian at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on August 10, 1954. When the engines shut down for the last time, this P-61 had accumulated only 530 total flight hours. Smithsonian personnel trucked it to the Paul Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. The aircraft went on public display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in May, 2006.

[APG85]

Pictures????????????