Aviation museums

[straitman]

Anyone been to the air museum at Darwin?

Yes.
Highly recommended. I will attempt to find some pics.
B52 in the centre of the hanger with everything else around it.

 

[PERLHR]

Yes.
Highly recommended. I will attempt to find some pics.

Thanks. Thinking of visiting mid year.

 

[bPeteb]

Anyone been to the air museum at Darwin?

a few weeks ago. Photos in my trip report Kakadon't. Great little museum

 

[Happy Dude]

Go to where it all began! You get a good taste in the National Air and Space Museum in DC but I just had to go to say I've been to Kittyhawk.

Wright Brothers National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903.<br /><br />With courage and perseverance, these self-taught engineers...

www.nps.gov

Lot of history in this area, The Outer Banks. Very beautiful beaches and coastline. The driving is superb.

 

[TomVexille]

I've heard that the Moorabbin Air Museum has a decent little set up.

And I've always enjoyed a wander through the RNZAF in Christchurch.

 

[bPeteb]

Thanks. Thinking of visiting mid year.

this is the link to the trip report Kakadon't. A wet weekend in the top end.

 

[PERLHR]

I've heard that the Moorabbin Air Museum has a decent little set up.

And I've always enjoyed a wander through the RNZAF in Christchurch.

Yes next time in Melbourne I'm going to do the museum.

Going to CHC in April so hopefully can see the RNZAF

 

[jastel]

Go to where it all began! You get a good taste in the National Air and Space Museum in DC but I just had to go to say I've been to Kittyhawk.

Wright Brothers National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903.<br /><br />With courage and perseverance, these self-taught engineers...

www.nps.gov

Lot of history in this area, The Outer Banks. Very beautiful beaches and coastline. The driving is superb.

Yes - I wanted to go there but ran out of time and money...
Have done some South Carolina but veered onto the Blue Ridge Parkway so not much of North Carolina....
Next Trip maybe.

 

[PERLHR]

Free museum of the New Zealand Air force. Near to Christchurch airport. Well worth a visit.

 

[luckypierre]

B52 in the centre of the hanger with everything else around it

The B52s and their refueller aircraft KC135s (I think) were regular visitors to Darwin in the mid 1980s, hence a B52 was donated to the museum. Also of interest was a 75 squadron Mirage fighter that was recovered many years later after flaming out circa 1985, just prior to FA18s came to Darwin

 

[clifford]

Not sure if this has been mentioned previously, but there is a nice little historical airpark at TRG (Tauranga airport) NZ (was there last week). Some of the exhibits also fly around the airport. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.

 

[Nick C.]

Beijing's aviation museum is unbelievably huge, with hundreds of planes both outside and in a cavernous hangar.

You can board Chairman Mao's private aircraft (attaching my own photos).

 

[PERLHR]

HARS today...outside Sydney. Very informative and worth while tour.

 

[jb747]

Interesting that they’re stripping the paint of OJA at HARS. Getting that repainted will be an interesting exercise.

I never greatly liked that aircraft, as it had flight controls that were quite a bit heavier (in roll) than the rest of the fleet. I had a bit of vendetta against aircraft that were set up that way, but the management response was that the loadings were within the Boeing limits, so it was acceptable. BA on the other hand (as seen on their 767s that we had) set a much finer tolerance for control column loads, thus making the aircraft more or less the same. Different loads make them harder to control, especially in the flare on windy (x-wind) days, when your feel is a big part of the input. Over on the 767 fleet, EAJ, was also a shocker.

 

[yachty]

I've long wanted to visit the Udvar-Hazy Centre at the Smithsonian and, finally, I should be able to wrangle a visit next week. Can't wait!

 

[Lizzi]

We popped into the Aviation Museum at Riga when we were in the Baltics a couple of weeks ago. They have a lot of Soviet era planes, helis and various accoutrements sitting in a field out near the airport. (Cash only - 10 euros pp.) My husband was very keen to see the Mig 25.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g274967-d1484670-Reviews-or10-Riga_Aviation_Museum-Riga_Riga_Region.html

 

[NM]

Interesting that they’re stripping the paint of OJA at HARS. Getting that repainted will be an interesting exercise.

I never greatly liked that aircraft, as it had flight controls that were quite a bit heavier (in roll) than the rest of the fleet. I had a bit of vendetta against aircraft that were set up that way, but the management response was that the loadings were within the Boeing limits, so it was acceptable. BA on the other hand (as seen on their 767s that we had) set a much finer tolerance for control column loads, thus making the aircraft more or less the same. Different loads make them harder to control, especially in the flare on windy (x-wind) days, when your feel is a big part of the input. Over on the 767 fleet, EAJ, was also a shocker.

So it seems that at Qantas, anything with an A and a J in its name was a shocker??

 

[Cossie]

There are quite a few in the former DDR that I been to. I have mentioned some on here before. One of my favourites is just north of Goerlitz in the far SE of the old DDR.

https://luftfahrtmuseum-rothenburg.de/ and also near by is Cottbus Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus e.V.

The one at Rothenburg (not to be confused with Rothenberg) allows you to sit in some of the planes.

 

[Cossie]

This wasn't a museum, but still a working airport, can't remember where it was! We just happened to drive past. Obviously there was a mix of purely Soviet bases and DDR bases, most of the Soviet stuff was off limits to locals. This I think was a previous Soviet base.

 

[ausfox]

The Udvar Hazy museum is excellent. A gift of $90 Million to the Smithsonian from a second tier regional aircraft operator as thanks for his good business fortunes from memory.