This Caravelle travelled back to Europe and served as PH-TRY before returning back to the US as N777VV. Note N7511A Boeing 707-123 (17638) "Flagship New Jersey" of American Airlines in the distance, about to depart. The tail of N37587 Douglas DC-6B (45492) "Mainliner Toledo" of United to the left . Photographer: Neil Aird.

On display at the Tri-State Warbird Museum. Previously painted as Maj. Heinz Bär's Red 13, White 4 now carries no Jagdwaffe emblem on the fuselage. This is a new-build Fw-190A-8/N (neu) that came with an original Arado Flugzeugwerke plate for WNr583661 that was manufactured in 1944. One of a batch of 16 produced by Flug Werk GmbH, most were equipped with the ASch-82T engine. The engine of this Fw-190 was replaced with a P&W R-2800-57. It was donated to the museum in Dec. 2007.

On display at the Tri-State Warbird Museum. This L-4H with USAAF S/N 43-29332 is one of 1,801 built. They were used for artillery spotting and medical evacuation in World War II and the Korean War.

Photographer: Jim Morrow.

Photographer: Jim Morrow. Assigned to Aeronautical Systems Division.

On display in the R&D Gallery at NMUSAF under the XB-70 Valkyrie. Convair researched the high-speed delta wing after World War II. In response to a USAF requirement for a supersonic interceptor, it built prototype XF-92A. The landing gear, engine, canopy and ejection seat were borrowed from other aircraft. First flown on 18 Sep 48, it was tested by Frank Everest, Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield. It was under-powered despite engine changes, and Mach 1.01 was obtained on a dive. This aircraft helped in development of Convair's F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart and B-58 Hustler.

Constructed as YB-36, all updated features were added to this one while on the production line; retained by Convair. 4 Dec '47: First flight. 15 Dec '47: Third flight, reached 40,000+ ft. 1948: Redesignated YB-36A after several modifications. 31 May '49: TOS USAF; assigned to 72nd Bombardment Wing (Heavy) (SAC), Ramey AFB, PR 10/50: Converted to RB-36E with added four J-47 jet engines to the wings and returned to 72nd BW. 18 Feb 1957: Flown from Ramey AFB to Patterson Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, for display at the Air Force Museum. 1971: Scrapped. Parts to Walter Soplata of Newbury, OH.

A late afternoon arrival at a snow covered Port Columbus Airport.

This must have been an off schedule day for TWA since there are 3 727s on the ground and rarely is the end gate used for jets.

Seen arriving at the gate at Columbus, Ohio.

On display in the Research & Development Gallery at NMUSAF. The gyrocopter was an experimental concept to allow flyers downed over Vietnam to use one of these to escape on the ground to a safer area. It was to be stowed in the aircraft and integrated with the aircraft ejection seat. A 90 hp McCullough 4318G four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine powered the X-25A, which would give the pilot limited fly-away capability. First flown on 05 June 1968, it went to the museum in 1969.

This aircraft was on display in a San Diego, CA. playground for many years. In 1959 it was transferred to the USAF Museum. It underwent an in depth restoration from 2000 through 2008, and is now on display in the WW2 Gallery. This slide was taken in the outdoor aircraft display area at the original museum on Patterson AFB.

On display in the Presidential Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This short body T-39A Sabreliner with two triangular windows is one of ten Presidential aircraft in the gallery. Retrofitted to a VIP configuration, it was used by former President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1968 to 1973 to travel to his ranch. Later, it flew as an avionics and communication test bed. It went to the museum in October 1984. One can see the air brake extended behind the nose wheel.

On display in the Cold War Gallery at NMUSAF. The swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak was completely different to the straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet. It was powered by a Wright J65-W-3 engine rather than the Thunderjet's Allison J35. The Thunderstreak equipped USAFE squadrons and a large number were supplied to NATO countries under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program during the Cold War. It could deliver a nuclear bomb using LABS. This aircraft served in Europe and the Ohio ANG before being flown to the museum in 1970.