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Re: San Diego Aerospace Museum
Posted by henning henningsen on Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:52:21 PM
In reply top San Diego Aerospace Museum posted by Pat Carry on Thu Sep 04, 2003 01:20:50 PM
Greetings Pat,
Yes I happened to make it over there for an afternoon while
attending a conference there last july. It is a great location and planes are in great condition. (the entrance guards (SR71 and Dart (jet seaplane) though had lightning grounding wire on them which I don't think was original! :-)
They do try to make very creative use of their space. If you go make sure to bring a flash for your camera, in particular for the WWII area, its very dark. I didn't have mine along and had to be very creative on leaning against things for a
makeshift tripod and shoot at very low shutter speeds. Even
then the pics were just OK.
henning
: Last week while in San Diego to assist some of my relative
: s move into assisted living, I paid a visit to the San Die
: go Aerospace Museum. For those of you who have never been
: there, you owe it to yourself to pay a visit. It's a great
: museum with a very nice collection of planes and exhibits
: . This is the second time I have been to the museum and i
: t is amazing how much they have on display. My only compla
: int (a very small one) was that the Wildcat is displayed u
: p on a platform which makes it difficult to get a good loo
: k at. The museum does not have a great deal of extra floor
: space so I guess that is the only place they could place
: it. They have an auxiliary building in El Cajon but I w
: as not able to make it there.