Museum of Flight in Seattle...........

[tulsaboy]

IIRC, the Orion in Switzerland is an ex-Shell machine that was Jimmy Doolittle's mount for a while. I have pics of it when it was being maintained at Spartan Aero Repair in Tulsa in the 1940's. Would be fantastic in its old Shell scheme.
kevin

[APG85]

A sad end to two great lives (Post and Rogers). I read a great bio on Post several years ago. Always thought his other plane, Winnie Mae, deserved a place in the Milestones of Flight gallery at the NASM.

[spookythecat]

I really need to get up there to see that Peashooter. Any idea how long it'll be there?

Should be there a year. You can see in the background of some of the Peashooter photos a timeline display with models. My model group contributed to that display. I have 4 in there (Osprey, B-52, MD-80 & SNJ). We also have display cases by the cafeteria that will have rotating Boeing themes every three months.

[Pat Carry]

According to the museum's facebook page, the 787, the 747, the DC-2 and the B-47 are all under the newly constructed roof. Still to come the B-17, the B-29, the 727 and the 737. I will need to get out there and see this someday.

[spookythecat]

Almost everything that was outside is currently under the new roof. The Connie and 727 are in the parking lot and Air Force One is next to the museum. I heard there is a plan to do a Boeing Centennial lineup photo in the near future which is why the 727 and AF1(707) aren't in the new building yet.

[Pat Carry]

I wonder what they have planned for the B-52 and the Comet?

[spookythecat]

The Comet will eventually join all the others in the new building and from a snippet from the latest museum newsletter, the B-52 will be shipped down and put on display behind the new building as part of a Vietnam Memorial park next to the Duwamish River.

[JohnB]

If they plan on putting the B-52 in a Vietnam memorial, anyone know if they'll backdate it to Vietnam-era status?

IIRC, it's a "G" with Late 70s mods.
Since most of the preserved B-52s are "D"s in camouflage, I'd like to see a preserved natural metal airframe.