SAC Museum...........

Goose · Jul 3, 2013

If any of ya'll are going through Nebraska on I-80, there's a SAC museum just off the 432 exit by Ashland on the west side of the Platte River.

It's worth wandering around for a couple of hours. Admission is $14 for adults, but it's worth it.

dustycoal · Jul 3, 2013

Neat place, wish it was closer.

JMS/.MN · Jul 3, 2013

Went there a couple of years ago.......tour guide was retired USAF. Impressive display, and fun to show the better half some aircraft I"ve jumped out of.....especially the C119 Flying Boxcar. You"d swear your head will hit that rear stabilizer.

Dean · Jul 3, 2013

Great photos, Goose.

I"ve not been to the SAC Museum but have made several visits to the USAF Museum in Dayton.

The B-36 never ceases to amaze but I simply cannot figure out just what the Goblin planers were thinking.

Dean

The Red · Jul 3, 2013

Outstanding pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Prawn Farmer · Jul 3, 2013

It totally amazes me how smart "Our Greatest Generation" parents were - to design and put into production these aircraft in mere months with only slide rules - especially the SR-71.
My oldest daughter is a pilot and got some left seat time in the B-29 Fifi about 12 years ago. She recorded everything from engine starts,pre-flight run-ups, takeoff and the prop pitch changes through cruise for me. Radial engines are just plain music to hear. If I remember right - Zane was a flight engineer on 29's?

Brad Buchanan · Jul 3, 2013

Nice post Goose!

I love seeing aircraft, displayed or in flight an hope to see the Smithsonian some day.

Brad

hoof print · Jul 3, 2013

My dad was a crew chief on a RB-47 at Forbes AFB from 56-60. He loved the old sac bombers. Thanks for the pictures, I'd like to visit in person.

bill mart · Jul 3, 2013

holy carp that"s a XF85 Goblin in one of those shots. Precursor to the Ficon and Tom Tom programs. bill

The Red · Jul 3, 2013

Goose did they have a T38 on display? It was used as a chase plane for the SR71 on takeoffs and landings. Also in the 1970s and 1980s there was a program called Pacer that let low hour KC135 and B52 pilots to also fly the T38 to build up flying time. A few of my T38 students were in that program.

Dean · Jul 3, 2013

That is impressive, Farmer.

My neighbor was a B-29 flight engineer in Korea.

No combat issues for him but they did have one engine fire while in the air.

Dean

Dean · Jul 3, 2013

Our farm was on a flight line for military planes in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I well remember watching the flying boxcars fly over and listening to the big radial engines.

For a few years, the B-58s would fly over supersonic creating wonderful sonic booms. Truely impressive for a 10-12 year old.

Dean

Hal/ Eastern WA · Jul 3, 2013

Neat! I would give a lot to experience a B-36 flyover again. When I was a child, they would fly fairly low over our house, probably lining up to land at Fairchild AFB. The sound was tremendous--it shook the whole house, and the visual was even more dramatic than the B-52"s that started flying over a few years later.

However I have read that there are NO flyable B-36"s left. Amazing planes!

smallercrawler · Jul 3, 2013

Fantastic history there, thanks for posting.

tomtirediron · Jul 3, 2013

Thanks posting for the pics, That museum is a must stop for sure. I've been there 2x now and actually took my wife and 11, 5 and 4 year old kids in there last Aug on our way through from Colorado. Kids thougt it was "awsome" Beautiful testiment to the men and machines who served.

MarkB_MI · Jul 4, 2013

I visited the SAC museum several years ago. The most impressive thing is how the entire museum is dominated by a single aircraft, the enormous B-36.

bill mart · Jul 4, 2013

hard to get a B-36 all in one single shot. bill

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