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Posted: 10/16/2017 11:18:00 AM EDT
I was on the road the other day and decided to make a detour. http://www.museumofaviation.org/ To the Museum of Aviation right outside of Robins Air Force Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robins_Air_Force_Base
Because the place is so huge with a tremendous amount of exhibits I decided to make this folder open to the public. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bamashooter/library/Museum%20of%20Aviation%20Warner%20Robbins%202017?sort=3&page=1 No way I could post all the pics. It is an amazing place. 
There are 15 pages of pics at my link. I spent almost three hours here and could easily have added a few more by taking my time. Admission is free but they do collect money through donations. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 2:31:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/16/2017 2:51:56 PM EDT
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Very cool, thanks for posting.
Can you hotlink your photo album? I tried copy/pasting it into my browser but it didn't work. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 2:53:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:00:20 PM EDT
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Wow!!!! Didn't know that place existed.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:04:55 PM EDT
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Nice, thanks
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:05:58 PM EDT
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Damn. Saw two airplanes I flew on...
I'm old. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:14:55 PM EDT
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Nice pics, I didn't realize that place existed.
Thanks for taking the time to post. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:17:23 PM EDT
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Well worth the time to stop and see.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:22:10 PM EDT
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I see that every morning on the way to work at the base. Still visit a couple times a year as the displays change.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:23:37 PM EDT
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Wow. Very cool.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:25:22 PM EDT
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Nice to see a surviving D-21.
Side note, one was sent over china, crashed somewhere in Siberia, and a KGB agent gave a piece back as a "gift" in the 90's. Russia was under the impression that the piece represented our current stealth tech, even though the drone crashed in the mid 70s. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:26:21 PM EDT
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Neat!
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:26:23 PM EDT
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Very cool Bama.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:28:06 PM EDT
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Thank you, Bama. That was awesome!
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:31:41 PM EDT
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Nice to see a surviving D-21. Side note, one was sent over china, crashed somewhere in Siberia, and a KGB agent gave a piece back as a "gift" in the 90's. Russia was under the impression that the piece represented our current stealth tech, even though the drone crashed in the mid 70s. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:34:10 PM EDT
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I was wondering what that was. Basically, the Airforce spent most of the early 60's fighting the CIA A-12 program, and finally got their way. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:34:31 PM EDT
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Very cool Bama. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:35:07 PM EDT
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I remember going there before and after they built the new part. Next time i'm in the area i will go again. I remember the u2 and SR71 were on the ground and you could touch both at the same time.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:36:37 PM EDT
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I see that every morning on the way to work at the base. Still visit a couple times a year as the displays change. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:37:11 PM EDT
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The SR71 is still the coolest thing that's ever flown. I spend more time looking at it than any of the other exhibits.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:38:28 PM EDT
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HAHAHAHAHA- Small world I see and I pass it often as well. I haven't been in about a year or more though. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I see that every morning on the way to work at the base. Still visit a couple times a year as the displays change. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:42:36 PM EDT
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Very cool. I know where my next road trip is going to be now.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:46:05 PM EDT
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The SR71 is still the coolest thing that's ever flown. I spend more time looking at it than any of the other exhibits. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:52:15 PM EDT
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Last time I was there I took pictures using film
 and the SR-71 was parked outside.
Did you see the B-52 bombing computer? It's as big as a full size van and then some. Cool place for propeller heads. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:09:27 PM EDT
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Cool pics. Thanks OP! Some real sexy planes in there.
There is a similar AF museum at Hill AFB in case anyone was unaware. Lots of the same planes but I remember the cutaway 27 cyl WASP radials that turned. Wow what a marvel of engineering. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:39:55 PM EDT
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There was an F-104 there the last time we went, but no B-29.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:42:25 PM EDT
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There are quite a few of us in the area. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:45:06 PM EDT
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Awesome Thanks for the pictures!
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:57:41 PM EDT
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Great pictures! Thank you for taking the time to post them Bama.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:58:27 PM EDT
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tag
I met Col. Scott at Falcon Field in the early 70s. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:06:27 PM EDT
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Cool. I went there as a kid, but it looks a whole lot more impressive now. I might try to head back up there this week.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:08:47 PM EDT
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I was there in the late '90s and remember some of the exhibits like the Flying Tiger P-40 but a lot of that is new. Museum looks great.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:13:10 PM EDT
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I always think of the movie "Night at the Museum" when I see a place like this. Wouldn't it be great if everything in it came alive at night.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:13:44 PM EDT
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Cool pics. Thanks OP! Some real sexy planes in there. There is a similar AF museum at Hill AFB in case anyone was unaware. Lots of the same planes but I remember the cutaway 27 cyl WASP radials that turned. Wow what a marvel of engineering. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:17:46 PM EDT
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Flying gear
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:32:31 PM EDT
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There is a REALLY rare aircraft there that of the three built is the only surviving example.
Three C-130s were modified under a top secret project at Eglin Air Force Base Auxiliary Field #1 (Wagner Field), Florida. The contract called for two to be modified to the proposed XFC-130H configuration within 90 days, and the third to be used as a test bed for various rocket packages blistered onto the forward and aft fuselage, which theoretically enabled the aircraft to land and take off within the sports arena's confines. (A fourth aircraft, an EC-130 ABCCC, was used as the interior mockup airframe for simulator training.)[4] After Lockheed was requested on 27 June 1980, to begin preliminary engineering studies on an STOL Hercules, the use of JATO units was explored, since these had previously been used to power takeoffs.[5] Lockheed reported on 16 July that 58 JATO bottles (more than seven times greater than normal) would be required and that arresting gear would be insufficient to stop the C-130 in the required space. The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake organization was then brought into the project to provide expertise on existing rocket motor power. Lockheed proceeded with work to structurally reinforce the C-130 airframe to withstand rocket forces and to develop a passenger restraint system for 150 persons.[6] The resulting XFC-130H aircraft were modified by the installation of 30 rockets in multiple sets: eight forward-pointed ASROC rocket motors mounted around the forward fuselage to stop the aircraft, eight downward-pointed Shrike rockets fuselage-mounted above the wheel wells to brake its descent, eight rearward-pointed MK-56 rockets (from the RIM-66 Standard missile) mounted on the lower rear fuselage for takeoff assist, two Shrikes mounted in pairs on wing pylons to correct yaw during takeoff transition, and two ASROCs mounted at the rear of the tail to prevent it from striking the ground from over-rotation. Other STOL features included a dorsal and two ventral fins[7] on the rear fuselage, double-slotted flaps and extended ailerons, a new radome, a tailhook for landing aboard an aircraft carrier, and Combat Talon avionics, including a Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance radar, a defensive countermeasures suite, and a Doppler radar/GPS tie-in to the aircraft's inertial navigation system.[/i][/i]  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:38:15 PM EDT
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Even a Bowie
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:56:06 PM EDT
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Great pictures, thanks!
I got to visit it a few times while I was active duty. It looks like its grown by at least one building since the last time I was there. I made a point of visiting all the major military museums I could, kind of a hobby of mine. Back in the early 2000s I think one of the volunteers down there at Robins told me that the USAF actually had to "put the breaks" on the Robins museum a little bit because it was on the verge of getting bigger than the official museum at Wright Patt. The Robins museum has that beautiful F-15 rotunda exhibit and its my favorite plane. Just my opinion but I rank the military aviation museums: Wright Patt Pensacola Robins Hill Edwards SkunkWorks (outside the wire) White Sands Missile Range Barksdale Eglin Armament Museum The Smithsonian facilities in DC are kind of in a different class but they both rank with WPAFB and Pensacola |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:10:17 PM EDT
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Great pictures, thanks! I got to visit it a few times while I was active duty. It looks like its grown by at least one building since the last time I was there. I made a point of visiting all the major military museums I could, kind of a hobby of mine. Back in the early 2000s I think one of the volunteers down there at Robins told me that the USAF actually had to "put the breaks" on the Robins museum a little bit because it was on the verge of getting bigger than the official museum at Wright Patt. The Robins museum has that beautiful F-15 rotunda exhibit and its my favorite plane. Just my opinion but I rank the military aviation museums: Wright Patt Pensacola Robins Hill Edwards SkunkWorks (outside the wire) White Sands Missile Range Barksdale Eglin Armament Museum The Smithsonian facilities in DC are kind of in a different class but they both rank with WPAFB and Pensacola |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:21:03 PM EDT
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Great Pics...thanks for sharing
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:23:52 PM EDT
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I must go there !
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:28:02 PM EDT
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I have flown in there many times... Sadly we were not able to stop at the museum. Some day.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:28:11 PM EDT
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Cool pics. I have family 15 minutes from there. I really should check it out next time I'm home.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:30:07 PM EDT
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Great Pics...thanks for sharing |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:32:16 PM EDT
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Lots of Arfcommers around the area.
I go there about twice a year. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:36:43 PM EDT
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Wow - very nice museum...
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:39:29 PM EDT
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Wow, I didn’t even know there was a museum there. Another one I need to visit.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:43:47 PM EDT
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Haven't been there in years. Looks like I need to plan a trip.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:50:14 PM EDT
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I drive by there every time I go to Warner Robins, but it's been awhile since I stopped. The last time I was there, the SR-71 was parked outside. It's very easy to spend a few hours there.
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:57:23 PM EDT
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Thanks Bama. Been looking for something fun to do on my birthday this coming weekend. Think I found it. :-)
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