More road trip . . .

[Tulio]

OK, gang, continuing with the trip, today I barely made it to the Mid-America Air Museum, in Liberal, KS. Too many [never thought I would say this!] airplanes under one roof; it makes photography almost impossible, with too many dead angles and a mixture of civilian and military aircraft without any reason -at least to me- for doing so, other than occupying the available space.

Weather permitting, Breckenridge is next : )


All photos ©2006 Tulio R. Soto:

F-86H at the McCook, NE airport; was flight-delivered back in 1972, still keeps the engine; there is no serial number visible, but it belongs to the USAF Museum; some local individual of questionable judgement broke the canopy with a cinder block to gain access, so they patched it up with a piece of plexiglass:



Mid America Air Museum, Liberal, KS:

Guess this one: Three of them saw service in VietNam.













This one, in Perryton, TX:




Saludos,


Tulio

[airnutz]

Guess this one: Three of them saw service in VietNam.

No guess..that's a Pereira design originally tagged the Osprey I, which the
USN selected from 7 contenders for a potential single-seat seaplane
intended for civil police patrol duty in S.E. Asia. In service it was the
Pereira X-28A Sea Skimmer.

Behind the X-28 is an Umbaugh or Air and Space 18A autogyro...nice
3-view here..
http://avia.russian.ee/helicopters_eng/ ... _18-r.html

Thanks for the great photos and virtual road trip Tulio!!!!

Last edited by airnutz on Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:32 am, edited 1 time in total.

[bluethunder28]

Are you planning on stopping at Denver? Good museum at Lowery. Also more museums at Pueblo airport and Colorado Springs (Peterson AFB and AF Academy. Did you stop at Hill AFB?

[Jerry O'Neill]

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing them.
Any photos of hat big, blue bird behind the Stinson???
Jerry

[Tulio]

Guys, I am heading back home to TX, so no Colorado stops this trip.

Here's one of the Blue Bird (Former Honduran AF IIRC).



And YES! It is an Osprey (Pereira, mis-identified as a "Perzira" as seen at the museum's sign)

Saludos!


Tulio