TheWings of Eagles Discovery Center – Formerly National Warplane Museum
I have a chance to visit the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center located near Elmira New York a few weeks ago as it was very close to the Geneseo Air Show located about 1hr away…
The museum is located at the airport and the collection is mostly made up of US types representing the various US Forces.
The last time I visited the museum in 1999 it was called the National Warplane Museum Since then a few of the aircraft like their B-17 Fundy Duddy and PBY Catalina has moved on to help cope with financial issues that the museum found itself over the past few years. I did recognize a lot of the collection that was displayed in both the main hangar and their restoration hangar but like any changing museum there were a few new additions for me to check out….
Some of the aircraft like the B-26B and the Martin RB-57 were stored outdoors on the live airport side and as such they are not viewable to visitors except thru the windows in the museum. It was a shame as I was much interested in seeing the restored RB-57 but alas it was not to be….But on the plus side of things the bulk of the collection is safely indoors so it will survive the cold hard winters of Northern New York State for many years to come….
Here are a few pictures taken on my visit and their ID in no particular order….A few of the cockpit are open for inspection which is a treat as it seems quite a few museum don’t seem to offer the “tour of the office”
anymore….
Cheers
Andrew
McDonnell FH-1 Phantom 111768
McDonnell F2H-2P Banshee 125690
McDonnell F-4B Phantom II 152256
McDonnell Douglas F-15B 75-0026
Mikoyan MIG-21 4102
Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II 75-0293
Grumman F-14A Tomcat 161605
Bell UH-1H Huey 65-09589
Hughes OH-6A 67-16576
Douglas R4D-5 C-47 43-13860
Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer 4959
Grumman Avenger
Heinkel He-162 Replica Full Size
North American SNJ-3 T6 Texan N696WM
Fairchild PT-19B Cornell 42-47871 N49830
Boeing Stearman PT-17 N64604
Grumman F9F-7 Panther 53-130802
By: British Canuck - 6th August 2007 at 14:26
Thanks Bager1968…:rolleyes:
My information was taken provided from the Musuem Website….
Full points for that call…
Andrew
By: Bager1968 - 4th August 2007 at 02:38
Anorak Alert!
A “minor note”… the Panther was the straight-winged model, and carried the ending numbers of -1, -2, -3, -4, & -5 (and all P, D, K, T, etc sub-variants of these).
The F9F models with the endings -6, -7, & -8 (and all P, D, K, T, etc sub-variants of these) were the swept-wing model officially named Cougar.
It retained the fuselage, vertical tail, engine, and undercarriage of the F9F-5, but was fitted with wings swept at 35 degrees and with swept horizontal tail surfaces. In order to reduce the approach and stalling speeds to acceptable levels, the chord of the leading-edge slats and the trailing-edge flaps were both increased. Much larger split flaps were fitted underneath the fuselage center section.
The fuselage was increased in length by 2 feet, and the wingroot-mounted intakes were extended farther forward and the wing root fillets were enlarged. A broader chord lower rudder section was fitted, linked to the rudder pedals. The upper rudder section was unchanged, but was linked to a yaw damper.
The wingtip tanks had to be eliminated, and the resulting reduction in fuel capacity was partially offset by increasing the size of the forward-fuselage fuel tank and by adding bladder-type fuel tanks in the wing leading edge.
By: British Canuck - 2nd August 2007 at 12:06
And the last ones….
By: British Canuck - 2nd August 2007 at 12:04
And a few more…
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August 2, 2007 at 11:58 am