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Posted by Tulio on Sun Oct 28, 2001 11:41:38 PM
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I drove today to Galveston, Texas and visited the Lone Star Flight Museum, after not having been there for three years.
It has changed a lot! It looks better, displays are very good, and of course, airplanes were there! The usual, B-58, Privateer (four engines and a nose turret on it now); an F7-F Tigercar, an F-4F Wildcat, N97RW (Spitfire) and N251A (Mustang) and for the first time for me, in "real life" two russian fighter replicas, the I-15 and the I-16 were there. Absent, since it is for sale, was the Cessna A-37. N3-N, Cessna T-50/UC-78, Grumman S-2, AT-6 and Harvard Mk.IV, plus the ERRONEOUSLY marked AT-11 "FUERZAS AEREA EJERCITO DE CUBA" (Correct: Fuerza Aerea del Ejercito de Cuba) and besides, Cuba did not operate the AT-11s in their bomber configuration. There was also a disassembled Mig-21 in Polish AF markings. P-38 Putt-Putt Maru and P-47 Tarheel Hal were there too. All aircraft were indoors, and interior lighting is excellent, good for indoors photography. I would daresay their lighting is better than the one at the Smithsonian.
Anyways, it was a good trip, crowned by my discovery of a pole-mounted Ercoupe outside of Houston, with a wood layout of Snoopy flying it.
Saludos!
Tulio