[Mil] Museum(s) / Airshow Mid-West USA July 2012

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[Mil] Museum(s) / Airshow Mid-West USA July 2012

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Dear all,

The last two weeks I visited the Mid-West USA, the first stop was at the museum of Hill Afb. (Utah). The outside exhibits are in a poor/bad condition due to the weather conditions/influence, inside it is a different story! The collection is well maintained, but since they have a lot of great stuff: the place is packed! (but very worth well to spend a few hours).

The next stop was at The South Dakota Air and Space Museum (Ellsworth Afb.) near Rapid City. Outside a nice collection, some undergoing restoration at this moment. Inside some small exhibits (not that many aircraft). They offer a base tour and we thought it would be worth to give it a shot, however you don’t get to see any aircraft, you get the opportunity to visit a (decommissioned) missile training facility (quite impressive).

Our last stop was at the Sioux Falls (SD) Air show which had a nice surprise fly by of a B-2 bomber.
Hope you all enjoy the pictures, comments “R” welcome.

The museum of Hill Afb.:
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The South Dakota Air and Space Museum (Ellsworth Afb.):
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Sioux Falls (SD) Airshow:
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Best regards,

Roger
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Interesting report and photos. Thank you for sharing!
I didn't know that Hill had the "Super Sluff" in their collection.
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Just 'RRR' !
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Very nice report; what kind of equipment do you use to take the images?
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tomcat604 wrote:I didn't know that Hill had the "Super Sluff" in their collection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_YA-7F would have been a rather interesting variant indeed. "Strikefighter", but not "Joint"... :wink:

Some eye-catching ICBM-related photos as well! :)
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Thanx for the replay 8)

I use a Canon 50-D with 2 "basic" lenses...... (can't afford the L-stuff, airline tickets "R" to expensive :) :mrgreen: ). One ESF 17-85 and a EF 70-300 (IS/USM)... So I'm sorry for the quality of the pictures.
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Nice report, indeed. Thanks for sharing.
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CR-74050 wrote:Nice report, indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Thanx! The reason to share, love all the great (Mil) reports/effort of other members 8)
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