As well as the two Smithsonian Aircraft Museums in DC there are some interesting aircraft at the Washington Navy Yard (note that you have to call ahead) and the National Postal Museum

In Virginia there are:

in Richmond, the Virginia Aviation Museum which has a really interesting collection plus a few aircraft at the Virginia Science Museum. Further south (I think ) is Jerry Yagen’s Fighter Factory with a fine collection of airworthy warbirds, then heading down to Hampton/Norfolk are three diverse museums, Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Air Power Park and Virginia Air & Space Center.

From here you can head to North Carolina:

going south down the coast gets to the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kittyhawk, then inland in North Carolina to North Carolina Aviation Museum, Carolinas Aviation Museum, and Western North Carolina Air Museum. There are a few aircraft on display around MCAS Cherry Point and there’s also a pretty good aviation collection in two museums at Fort Bragg which seem to be still open to the public. Finally there’s the Battleship North Carolina.

In South Carolina:

there’s the excellent museum at Patriots Point.

And that’s just the main museums …

Tony Andrews

Can anyone put my pic post on the WIX board? Tks…

If you just need the web space for the pictures you should be able to copy the URLs of the pictures above into the [img] tags on WIX and reuse the same files. If that doesn’t work, drop me a PM and I can copy them into my space.

It looks like it will be a very nice, and different, addition to the circuit.

Tony Andrews

I also believe that the later model Corsairs from the -5 to the -7 have steps on the right side.

Ryan

It’s all Corsairs isn’t it? The early ones just have a hole in the flap to form a step while the later ones have a sprung cover over the step.

Also, how about the greatest fighter of WW2 – the P-51D? You can probably get into the cockpit from either side but you have to press a button on the right to open the canopy

Tony Andrews

Excuse me, but what means “SOP”? :confused:

Standard Operating Procedure or words to that effect

It does look a bit like this view of Black Magic under restoration – i.e. the flat bits are the sides of the nose – though I’m not totally convinced?????????

Black Magic picture

Black Magic site

Tony Andrews

Hi John

Tony A

I suspect that all would hold formation pretty well – The pioly is no slouch noe the Nimrod.

What I was meaning was how would the inter-war Hind/Demon/Nimrod/Fiat/… (and don’t forget the Gauntlet?) formation get on following the slow three-ship TFC/HAC/Shuttleworth Bristol Fighter fleet which, all going well, may very well be available for next year.

Tony Andrews

Here’s G-ERDS at the Sun’N’Fun Splash-In in 2003

Tony Andrews

I belive I saw a ground shot showing the Mustang at FL.
If it was there, did it participate in the flying display?

No, she didn’t fly in the show, just a short excursion on the Sunday morning

Tony Andrews