Yvon Hawke
05-22-2006, 11:32 AM
When I was 14 years old, it was 1987. My father, a retired Captain of the Air Force, brought me to the museum for the first time. It was a lot of fun seeing all of the 300+ aircraft at the time. We returned two years later and they had acquired some more aircraft, artifacts, etc.
I never returned to the museum until May of 2002 when I turned 30. And was I impressed? Absolutely. Not onlt was it the aircraft additions, but my father and I had 2 good days there and I stopped to pay attention to the little things, the sentimentl things, the personal things, the things that, as a kid, I just couldn't appreciate at the time. But, after the 2002 visit, I became a member of the museum.
We returned, again, one year later, but it felt as if we were just there the day before. But, the addition of a new exhibit hangar was nearing completion and dedicated to the Cold War, of which, was my father's era.
We haven't been back since, but I keep up with the goings on there and maintain my membership happily.
The museum's recent acquisitions are the Memphis Belle this past winter and the Hanoi Taxi a couple weeks back. They are also in the process of receiving shipments of portions of the XC-99 that will be completely rebuilt and restored after decades of neglect in New Mexico.
I recommend anyone to visit the web site and see what they've got on there. And if you live close enough, or can do some traveling, I highly recommend going there.
The URL to the site is http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/
Enjoy1
I never returned to the museum until May of 2002 when I turned 30. And was I impressed? Absolutely. Not onlt was it the aircraft additions, but my father and I had 2 good days there and I stopped to pay attention to the little things, the sentimentl things, the personal things, the things that, as a kid, I just couldn't appreciate at the time. But, after the 2002 visit, I became a member of the museum.
We returned, again, one year later, but it felt as if we were just there the day before. But, the addition of a new exhibit hangar was nearing completion and dedicated to the Cold War, of which, was my father's era.
We haven't been back since, but I keep up with the goings on there and maintain my membership happily.
The museum's recent acquisitions are the Memphis Belle this past winter and the Hanoi Taxi a couple weeks back. They are also in the process of receiving shipments of portions of the XC-99 that will be completely rebuilt and restored after decades of neglect in New Mexico.
I recommend anyone to visit the web site and see what they've got on there. And if you live close enough, or can do some traveling, I highly recommend going there.
The URL to the site is http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/
Enjoy1