Not CL but aviation history

[Jared Hays]

I was allowed to do a quick flight with my quadcopter in one of the Hangars at the Strategic Air Command Museum in Ashland Nebraska near the B-29 and KC-97.  Hope you enjoy the video.  If your ever in Eastern Nebraska or just passing through on I-80 I highly recommend stopping by and checking out the museum they have a lot of stuff you can't see anywhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5IPA_F6pY&feature=youtu.be

[bruce finley]

Looks fantastic!  Apparent that the museum didn't want you flying over the AC there, can't blame them

I'm sure the museum wanted a copy of your video for marketing(?) perhaps.  Great video.  Between you and Shug I no longer have to watch TV.

[Carl Cisneros]

very very nice indeed

I remember at least one of the types of aircraft there when I was in SAC.
Carl

[Jared Hays]

Well then I'm using my "drone" for "commercial" use if they used it for "marketing" so the "FAA" says No lol...There is another hangar at the Museum that has a lot more aircraft in it so this was just a scratch of the surface so to speak. I did not fly over any aircraft just in case there was a problem arise with the quad and end up putting a scratch in the surface lol.  Maybe next time I can shoot the big hangar!

[Dan McEntee]

   Is this the same museum that used to be at Offut AFB? We toured that YEARS ago when visiting my wife's family in that area. They had the B-58 Hustler (one of my favorite airplanes as a child) that John Denver's father set a coast to coast record in, still had his name under the cockpit canopy. My father in-law was a crew chief on KC-97s and they operated out of the base in Lincoln and flew in and out of Offut. They flew the "cold route" up through Canada, then Greenland, Iceland and into England , then reversed course to go home. I'll have to plan a trip back up that way some day.
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Jared Hays]

It sure is and, Yes that B-58 is in the big hangar...That's my favorite bomber along with the B-1 

[Sean McEntee]

    If any of you folks get in or around Colorado Springs, make sure you stop by "Solo's Restaurant" aka "The Airplane Restaurant"  It's built, quite literally, around a KC-97 in Texas ANG markings.  Used to go there with the local FF crowd after long days of chucking gliders.  Food is pretty decent and they have a bunch of neat old models hanging in the building part of the restaurant.  

www.solosrestaurant.com

[Fred Cronenwett]

Interesting the B-29 does not have guns, great video maybe this is the new way to get scale documentation!

Fred

[Dan McEntee]

Interesting the B-29 does not have guns, great video maybe this is the new way to get scale documentation!

Fred

    It could be the recon version, or RB-29? They were used quite a lot after WW-2 in that mission I do believe. Strip them of any excess weight so they could fly high and fast. In that mission, a 50 cal. machine gun isn't effective against a SAM or air to air missle. That's my guess. Either that or one of the early atomic bombers? It's not Box's Car from what I can see of the nose art. It's in a museum somewhere I think.

    The restaurant Sean is talking about is pretty cool. Went there once when we delivered some furniture to him. We had wives and such with us so we couldn't really fully investigate the place at the time but I'm sure he has since. 12 hour drive from my house, so just a little bit of a long drive for a long lunch!

   And of course, when in Tucson for VSC, there is the Pima Air Museum. Allow plenty of time for that one! Lots of significant and historic aircraft there also.
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[dennis lipsett]

Spent about 2 years around KC-97 aircraft when stationed at Mountain Home AFB when it was a SAC base of the 9th Strategic Aerospace Wing.
Even flew to Elmendorf AFB Alaska a few times in one of them. They were used to fuel B-47 bombers.

[john e. holliday]

Is this the same place they used to have control line contests at years ago?

[Gary Mondry]

No, Doc.  That was at the old location next to the base in Bellevue.  This is the new location just off of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln (Ashland).  All the stuff that used to be on the ramp is now inside the hangars.  It's a worthwhile trip.

Gary

[Andrew Hathaway]

The SAC museum's B-29 hasn't had any of the turrets since at least the 80's.  Going by the serial number 44-84076, it was converted to TB-29B in about 1950.  Being a trainer for crews, target tow, and radar target it didn't really need the guns, so if I had to guess that's when they were likely removed.  The current paint scheme is just the latest fantasy.  A couple previous schemes can be found with Google, http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b29registry/b29-4484076.html

 

[Steve_Pollock]

General LeMay ordered most of the turrets and remote aiming equipment removed from the B-29s in his Pacific command to allow greater fuel and bomb loads.  Bell built over 300 B-29 late in the war that had no defensive armament.

[Andrew Hathaway]

Good catch...  Didn't know they built them that way, but being a Bell B-29B, the SAC's plane would have been built without the turrets.