Frostiken Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 (edited) Took a visit to Duxford IWM, finally. Got a handful of good photos (mostly because I usually forget to take photos), just thought I'd share a few: ---------------------------------------- The EE Lightning - always a crowd-pleaser. ---------------------------------------- :] ---------------------------------------- The Spitfire was being a little camera shy... ---------------------------------------- Oh god yes. ---------------------------------------- It's a B-52. 1) How did they fit this in there, and 2) How are we supposed to take a picture of it? ---------------------------------------- Always the classic around here :) ---------------------------------------- Father and son. ---------------------------------------- The next Flying Legend! And some more B-52! ---------------------------------------- Shameless advertising! ---------------------------------------- My favorite part was probably the workshop. ---------------------------------------- DCS: P-51 in-work. Looks like it's going to be a while. ---------------------------------------- Anyway, if any of you get the chance, it's very much worth a trip. Apparently in May there's going to be a huge airshow for the Diamond Jubilee so that'll be fun. The only real problem with the place is that there's just so much stuff packed into such a little space it makes it almost impossible to get good photos, because there's always something in the way or you can't get good angles. I was sort of disappointed in the U2 which is stuck way up high on the ceiling, literally all you see is the belly. It's great in person but don't expect awesome photos is all :P Didn't get any good photos of the tank museum, mostly because I forgot to take them until the very end and they didn't turn out very good. Edited March 24, 2012 by Frostiken [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
aaron886 Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 How do you know I wasn't flying my restored Lightning this morning??
RIPTIDE Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 'Bing' the Para dog seems to be holding up well for a 70+yr old dog. :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Pilotasso Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Excellent photos, how you guys managed to get all those US rare birds? .
Frostiken Posted March 24, 2012 Author Posted March 24, 2012 (edited) Excellent photos, how you guys managed to get all those US rare birds? Well, Duxford IWM has an advantage over the US museums in that there's only one of them. The US has a staggering number of aircraft displays that are on the magnitude of being 'really effing huge' scattered across the country. The UK has a handful of air museums, but Duxford is the main one, which means most of the pieces end up there first. It's really just a concentration issue, the UK can focus on one, whereas in the US it's multiple museums all vying for a limited number of them. I really enjoyed the Smithsonian A&S museum in DC, but I was really disappointed that it was split in to two different sections, one of them absolutely nowhere near as accessible: going all the way out to Dulles was totally inconvenient and out-of-the-question, even if there were some great things there. To its credit, the NA&S museum was a lot more spacious than Duxford giving you more room to move around and look at the exhibits. It also featured a lot of really historic aircraft, like the Wright Flyer and the Bell X-1 - things like that just aren't available at Duxford. Edited March 24, 2012 by Frostiken [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
joey45 Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Nice shots. I WILL get myself up there sometime as it's only a short drive up the road. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
Frostiken Posted March 24, 2012 Author Posted March 24, 2012 The one thing I did think was odd is that the F-15 there is the only small-frame aircraft displayed outside... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
cichlidfan Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 I will have to see what pics I have lying about from the museums in Washington D.C/Dulles. I made a few quick visits to both in the past year. I will probably be back out at Dulles soon, for the Space Shuttle arrival, and I hope to have time for more then. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Cali Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 I was busy at work, working on a B-52 and I get to do the same thing tomorrow......yea me :hmm: i7-4820k @ 3.7, Windows 7 64-bit, 16GB 1866mhz EVGA GTX 970 2GB, 256GB SSD, 500GB WD, TM Warthog, TM Cougar MFD's, Saitek Combat Pedals, TrackIR 5, G15 keyboard, 55" 4K LED
leafer Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Cali, you're a mech so maybe you can answer this. I have always wondered why, on some of the military aircraft, the inside is painted that yellow, greenish color? And what's the that color is called? I had wanted to paint my bike frame that color but couldn't get the right mixture. Just wondering. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
EtherealN Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 My personal guess would be that it's the foundation color (ie, that color is on the outside too, but under the "livery" color which may contain ingredients for environmental factors, radar absorbant compounds etcetera). Might be that they just didn't bother expending expensive (and heavy) paint on the those surfaces where it wasn't needed. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
hog_driver111th Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Ethereal is pretty close. On WWII aircraft, a zinc chromate primer was applied to all parts preventing corrosion. If you look at pictures of WWII aircraft from the insides, they have that color. Throughout the years, it was changed from just "Zinc Chromate" to "Zinc Chromate Green". Pre-WWII aircraft used a more yellow color. Today, A primer without Zinc is used by most companies. A-10C - FC3 - CA - L-39 - UH1 - P-51 - Hawk - BS2 - F-86 - Gazelle - F-5E - AV8B - F/A-18C i5-4590 - GTX 1060 - Oculus CV1 - TM:Warthog [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic9979_1.gif[/sIGPIC]
Cali Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Looks like they answered your question, but some aircraft don't have everything painted on the inside of the fuel tanks. The 16's and A-10's I worked on only had the paint in certain areas, mainly on rivets, screws, bolts stuff like that. The B-52 is a different beast, the whole tank is painted and sometimes it peels, which is bad for the boost pumps. We just a had a jet last week that we had to crawl in and check for paint peeling. i7-4820k @ 3.7, Windows 7 64-bit, 16GB 1866mhz EVGA GTX 970 2GB, 256GB SSD, 500GB WD, TM Warthog, TM Cougar MFD's, Saitek Combat Pedals, TrackIR 5, G15 keyboard, 55" 4K LED
Sawamura Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Ahh, Duxford.. Brings back memories. :) Nice photos! :thumbup:
Phantom88 Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Beautiful pics Frosty,Thanx very much for sharing them Cheers!! Patrick
statrekmike Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 You tease me with that bit of a Spad XIII in the background of one of the photo's! Love the pictures, wish I could make it to that little toybox indeed.
G00dnight Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 @ frostiken, The imperial war museum, isn't just 1 museum it is a large kind of family of museums of which duxford is a part, another part worth a visit is cosford in shropshire, the main IWM building in london is a great day out too.. AMD A8-5600K @ 4GHz, Radeon 7970 6Gig, 16 Gig Ram, Win 10 , 250 gig SSD, 40" Screen + 22 inch below, Track Ir, TMWH, Saitek combat pedals & a loose nut behind the stick :thumbup:
Stickers Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 'Bing' the Para dog seems to be holding up well for a 70+yr old dog. :) Haha!
Frostiken Posted April 6, 2012 Author Posted April 6, 2012 Ethereal is pretty close. On WWII aircraft, a zinc chromate primer was applied to all parts preventing corrosion. If you look at pictures of WWII aircraft from the insides, they have that color. Throughout the years, it was changed from just "Zinc Chromate" to "Zinc Chromate Green". Pre-WWII aircraft used a more yellow color. Today, A primer without Zinc is used by most companies. Our F-15s are yellow under the green (under the gray). Any idea what that's about? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Headspace Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 Really cool. I was in England over New Years and wanted to go but we ended up going into London instead. Since I'm in the UK so infrequently I wanted to see London at least once. I usually hang out up North!
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