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Last weekend I took a trek up to MI to see the Air Zoo then over to the Henry Ford Musuem. While I was up there I went over and looked at the YAM planes outside. The cleanup looks like it is almost done. I thought that the air zoo was great but the lighting was very poor (new building). I toured the restoration buildings as well. Lots of planes packed in together. F11F, Mig 21, 2 Ford Tri-Motors, ect. The wings are on the XP-55. That is one wierd looking aircraft. Here's just a couple of pics I took. Kinda mad cuz I had a shot of the instrument panel of the XP-55 but it blurred.

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CF,

Thanks for the updated pics! Did the kzoo give a completion date on the ASS-ENDER?

Anyone know if the xp-55 will go back to NASM when completed?

Regards,

t~

They didn't say when it would be completed. But I did learn that once they get it done, they will put it behind the SR-71B. They also said NASM could take it back at any time.

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Hi,

Thanks for posting the photo's. They are pretty good considering that they were taken inside a hangar. You've had more luck with that than I have <grin>. I had heard that they were the ones doing the XP-55. I always kinda thought of the Ascender as a "Long EZ" with machine guns. Very advanced for it's day. But I think that the Japanese were working on a similar aircraft themselves. Either way....both types were advanced for their respective time periods.

Nice to see this one back on it's gear. The last time I saw it, it was sitting on it's belly mostly disasembled at the storage facility at Silver Hill.

Thanks again,

Paul

Rats! Couldn't they maybe make just one more flight?

Our guide told us that they had just finnished attaching the wings a week or so ago.

Taking photos inside the hanger was awful. In the new building the lighting was horrible. In the old building everything blurred for some reason. I don't know what the problem was.

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The lighting in the new building is awful. Its a shame that all the planes are in the dark. Alot of the pictures I've taken at the old building of the air zoo blur too but I haven't been able to figure out the problem either. As for the Ascender the last newsletter I got said it should be ready for display by late summer or early fall. I saw that Greg Herrick's Trimotor was parked outside the museum Restoration Center recently so I assume that was the other Trimotor there. Did anyone mention when the museum's Ford will be ready to fly?

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Matt

The lighting in the new building is awful. Its a shame that all the planes are in the dark. Alot of the pictures I've taken at the old building of the air zoo blur too but I haven't been able to figure out the problem either. As for the Ascender the last newsletter I got said it should be ready for display by late summer or early fall. I saw that Greg Herrick's newly restored Ford Trimotor was parked outside the museum Restoration Center recently so I assume that was the other Trimotor there. Did anyone mention when the museum's Ford will be ready to fly?

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Matt

I didn't think that the museum's tri-motor was going to fly.

I talked to some photographers and they said that for lighting like that you need a tripod and use the setting for a longer disposure time. If that helps.

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