Wings of Eagles Museum - June 2009
Another rainy day, another museum.  This is the Wings of Eagles museum located at the Elmira airport.  Nice museum. 
 
F-15 Eagle.
 

The museum consisted of a big restoration hangar and a big display hangar.  We started out in the restoration hangar. 

Here's a nice Stearman with a Cub in the background.
 
MiG-17
 
Fairchild PT-19 trainer.
 
Bruce hangar-flying with the Docent.
 
This was the most interesting plane in their collection.  It's a Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer.  It was designed as a replacement for the TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber and could carry not one but two torpedoes or bombs/mines/depth charges.  It was built in late 1943 and tested during 1944.  This is the sole surviving airframe.   
 
 
 
The powerplant on this monster was a big Wright 3350-14 radial engine putting out 2300 horsepower.
 
Now we are inside the display museum.  Here's a Douglas B-26 Invader. 
 
I was surprised to see this Pratt-Read glider in this museum. 
 
McDonald F2H-2P Banshee, one of the Navy/Marine Corp earliest jets.
 

The Pratt & Whitney R-2800-10W Double Wasp radial engine. 

The R-2800 is considered one of the premier radial piston engines ever designed.  This engine powered the F6F Hellcat, P-47 Thunderbolt and F4U Corsair among others during World War II.
 
Immaculate F-4 Phantom.
 
 
Not so immaculate F-14 Tomcat.
 
Tomcat's pilot's cockpit.
 
Another view.
 
 
RIO's cockpit.  You know, where Goose sat.
 
 
 
The Jumo 004 that powered the German ME-262 jet fighter.
 
A model of the Japanese WWII carrier Akagi.  Notice how the deck slopes at each end.
 
A Wright Wirlwind engine -- the type that powered Lindberg's flight across the Atlantic.
 
 
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