Broke From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1322 posts, RR: 4 Posted (6 years 1 week 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4279 times:
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has acquired one of the nine development F-22's. The aircraft is currently in the restoration shops and can be seem during the behind the scenes tour.
It will go on display later this year. I am guessing it will go into the Kettering Cold War Gallery. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 4228 times:
Looking at your link it was interesting to see what else they were restoring, the Memphis Belle and Yf-23 and the X-32, if I lived in the Dayton area I would be volunteering to help restore those acft.
Skyway1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4216 times:
I need to take an afternoon here sometime and visit the museum. I usually spend an afternoon every few years at the musuem....if you're close you have to visit....
Broke From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1322 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 4190 times:
To be a volunteer at the Museum, you have to take what openings are available at the time. You can ask for restoration, but keep in mind that the folks at restoration work one weekday a week. Because of my work schedule and distance from the Museum, I'm there one day a month on a weekend day as a docent.
We are in need of more volunteers due to attrition and expansion. In addition, another building is in the works and the Museum will need about an additional 150 volunteers to support it properly.
Zkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 4739 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (6 years 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 4056 times:
Is it actually a F-22, or is it a YF-22? In the end the F-22 is considerably different from the YF-22 (although to the untrained eye they would look the same). This is partly why the F-22 has taken so long to develop... to give it time to be changed.
Broke From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1322 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (6 years 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 4007 times:
The Museum has had a YF-22 on display in the Modern Flight Hangar since 2001, if my memory is working.
The new airplane is a F-22.
As an aside, the Museum's YF-22 was the GE powered airplane during the fly before buy competition. The P&WA powered airplane crashed during a demonstration flight after the competition results had been announced. The Museum had to get two F-119's and fabricate their own engine change tooling in order to replace the GE engines with the P&WA F-119's.
DeltaDC9 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 2844 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (6 years 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 3984 times:
Quoting Broke (Reply 6): The Museum had to get two F-119's and fabricate their own engine change tooling in order to replace the GE engines with the P&WA F-119's.
I dont understand why they wanted to change it.
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Bjornstrom From Australia, joined Jun 2005, 327 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (6 years 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 3873 times:
Quoting Broke (Reply 6): The Museum has had a YF-22 on display in the Modern Flight Hangar since 2001, if my memory is working. Smile
The new airplane is a F-22.
Broke From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1322 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (6 years 1 week 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 3832 times:
The purpose of the engine change on the Museum's YF-22 from GE to P&WA was to make it closer to the production configuration instead of being completely correct in its original configuration. Again I am guessing, but I would think that the YF-22 will go to another museum once the F-22 goes on display. We used to have the no. 4 B-1A (which is the only surviving B-1A) and that airplane went elsewhere once the Museum acquired a B-1B.
The Museum used to have a KB-50 and a WB-50; the KB-50 went elsewhere and we kept the WB-50. I have met several ex-KB-50 crew members who were not happy about the museum giving away "their" airplane.
Even with the impressive size of the Museum, sometime decisions are made to remove an airplane in the interest of space and there is a lot of trading between museums for desired airplanes.
Skyway1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 3797 times:
Odd question here? Is there a place that has videos of some of the aircraft landing on the musuem runway? I saw bits and pieces on the local news when the B1-B arrived....
EBJ1248650 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1932 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (6 years 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 3638 times:
Quoting Broke (Reply 9): The purpose of the engine change on the Museum's YF-22 from GE to P&WA was to make it closer to the production configuration instead of being completely correct in its original configuration. Again I am guessing, but I would think that the YF-22 will go to another museum once the F-22 goes on display. We used to have the no. 4 B-1A (which is the only surviving B-1A) and that airplane went elsewhere once the Museum acquired a B-1B.
The Museum used to have a KB-50 and a WB-50; the KB-50 went elsewhere and we kept the WB-50. I have met several ex-KB-50 crew members who were not happy about the museum giving away "their" airplane.
Even with the impressive size of the Museum, sometime decisions are made to remove an airplane in the interest of space and there is a lot of trading between museums for desired airplanes.
I believe the Strategic Air & Space Museum (formerly the SAC Museum) got that final B-1A.
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