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A cloudy day in the Fall of 1998 was a good time to visit the San Diego Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park. (See their official site for operating hours, cost of admission and directions, as well as more detailed information on the exhibits.) |
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Me, posing with an SR-71
"Blackbird" exhibit. This is the fastest plane there is - it does
Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound). One once flew from New York to London in under
two hours. Ironically for a cold war spy plane, the titanium used to build it was purchased from the former Soviet Union. The SR-71 was designed entirely using a slide rule. Bob and Ray saw one flying at an air show (one of their early road trips) a couple of years ago. For more details, check out the NASA SR-71 page. |
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Here's a World War I collection of planes. This was the first war where airplanes were used. Of course, they didn't call it World War I back then because they didn't know there was going to be another war. It was referred to as the Great War. I have an bunch of Red Baron-related photos, too. |
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World War II ("the Big One", as Archie Bunker used to say) planes. The German plane (their airforce was called the "Luftwaffe") is at the top and the Allied plane on the ground. |
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A Curtiss P-40 Flying Tiger. (Note that it looks like a shark) The American Volunteer Group (AVG) flew these in the Pacific against Japanese Zeros. |
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Artifacts and memorabilia from the Apollo-Soyuz Mission. |
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