#plane museum

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My 3rd plane museum in 2 weeks. Plane museums own my heart, this one is especially special to me, I put a lot of work into some aircraft here. <3

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Pics from my trip..

Part 1

New Mexico

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1944 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain on display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

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National Air and Space Museum, Dulles, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

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1953 Armstrong Whitworth Gloster Meteor F-8 No.56 RAF Squadron WK991 by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: 1953 Armstrong Whitworth Gloster Meteor F-8 No.56 RAF Squadron WK991 Photos taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 20th March 2025 YYB_2145

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I’ll be back to the arcane sillies shortly but my government has been making me incredibly nervous and scared lately

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Nekoma Plane HCs

Kuroo: In the airport he goes full micromanaging-dad mode, the type to arrive 3 hours early and constantly make everyone double-check their passport. Hurries everyone along like they're a pack of baby ducklings. On the plane itself he just watches downloaded videos or sleeps (he mellows out once they're safely on board).  

Kai: Pops a melatonin and passes out for the entire flight, he’s not dealing with any of that. Brings a neck pillow, eye mask, and blanket, then sleeps sitting straight up like a corpse. Don’t bother him. He needs this.  

Yaku: We've all seen timeskip Yaku, bro flies business whenever he gets the chance (probably first class after going pro). Gold member for multiple airlines, frequent flyer fiend, has never waited more than 10 minutes in the terminal because he's always at the lounge.

Kenma: Hates the airport with a passion but doesn’t mind long plane rides, he ends up doing the same shit he’d be doing at home anyways. Spends the entire flight under a blanket playing his PS Vita. If he gets bored of his own stuff he’ll comb through the in-flight entertainment games getting high scores just because he can.

Tora: Idk he strikes me as a pretty standard flyer. He grumbles about it but he’ll pop on a movie, sleep a bit, and everything’s chill. The only “weird” thing I can see him doing is ordering unholy amounts of in-flight snacks without realizing it costs extra, then getting slapped with the bill and whining about it to the team for days.

Fukunaga: Rawdogs the flight like a champ, he’ll stare out the window for hours on end without headphones or any other form of entertainment. Tora’s convinced he has entire movies memorized in his head cause he barely even blinks. Or he’s just possessed. 

Lev: On the one hand he hates flying cause there’s never enough legroom, everyone hates sitting in front of him cause he pokes his feet under your chair into your space. On the other hand he never gets bored of the in-flight entertainment, he does literally everything he possibly can. The only person ever who actually uses the music function instead of listening to his own shit, just for the novelty of it.

Inuoka: The antsiest flier you’ll ever meet, he hates planes cause they’re so boringgggg. The type to wander the aisles until a flight attendant tells him to sit down. Give him the window seat or he'll climb over you to look outside.

Shibayama: Incredibly anxious flier, he’s convinced they’re all gonna die. Watches the safety video with his full attention and reads the information card in the seat pocket, even checks for the life vest under the seat. Grips the armrests for dear life during take off.

Teshiro: Also convinced they’re gonna die but he’s accepted it. Stares straight ahead and listens to podcasts the entire flight. 

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Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules flyovers Taken: 8/13/24 (Loud volume warning for the video)

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Went to go play with some planes in the museum's back hangars this morning. Some are museum planes, others are owned by the museum volunteers. Gonna do some more work corrosion on the flogger and soon that PT-19 when I'm back in FL mid December. Gonna trade maintenance time for flight time on the PT-19 + a few other birds here too! A&P license & being a volunteer here for a very long time unlocked me the secret to free flight lessons in awesome planes! X3

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I went to a model train museum yesterday. You have no idea how badly I nerded out. I have never talked so much in one sitting in my entire life. More pictures under the cut!

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Miss Josephine, a 1944 P-40N Warhawk, on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum

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Lots of pictures from the Museum of Science and Industry!

I spent the weekend in Chicago with my dad and my sister and one of the main things we did was go to the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI)! I'd been once before, so I was very excited to go back, since it's one of my all time favorite museums! I ended up taking a lot of pictures of my fav exhibits, so I'll post some of the highlights here! It'll be a bit of a long post tho lol

Part 1 - German U-Boat U-505!

This was the first exhibit we went to, since my sister is really into maritime stuff (shipwrecks and ocean liners especially). I wasn't quite as into this one but it was still really cool to see something so big inside a building like this and it's one of only 4 German U-boats that are preserved as museum ships today. We didn't get the chance to do the onboard tour, but it was still really neat to see the submarine itself as well as all of the naval artifacts and models and stuff that were part of the larger exhibit

Part 2 - Space Hall!

This next exhibit was my favorite as I'm sure you can tell :3c This was all about space exploration and space transport vehicles and stuff like that! The first pic is a full-scale model of one of a lunar landers I believe (I don't remember if it was from the Apollo missions or the upcoming Artemis missions). Pics 2, 3 and 4 are all models of different vehicles that have taken people to space! They had a bunch there, but of course my two favs were the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle <33. The Saturn V model especially was HUGE. Then the last two pics are two different crew modules. The one on the left is the module for Apollo 8 from 1986, and the one on the right is the SpaceX Dragon module that docked with the ISS twice during the 2010s!

Part 3 - Boeing 727!

They had a huge exhibit about planes, the centerpiece of which was this United Airlines Boeing 727 suspended up on the upper level! It was the first 727 ever placed into commercial service and has all sorts of things cut out inside so you can see things like the cockpit, the inner workings of the engines, the baggage hold and other stuff like that. The main thing, like with the U-Boat, was just how big this things was. It was super impressive and I loved getting to look around it!

Part 4 - Misc Other Things

The first four pics here are part of their huge model train display that has a scale model of a lot of Chicago's most famous buildings as well as Seattle on the other end of the train tracks (hence why the Space Needle is there lol). Honestly I was more enamored by the landscaping and building models than the trains themselves (which were still cool dgmw!!) hence why I don't have any pictures of the actual trains lol. Then the last pic is racing driver Al Unser's 1978 Lola T800 car, which, along with some of his other cars, helped him to win the Indy 500, the Pocono 500 and the California 500. This pic I took more to show my mom because she's a huge IndyCar fan and I know she's talked a lot about watching Al Unser race when she was a kid haha.

Anyways, that's a brief summary of some of my fav stuff I saw at the MSI today! We saw a bunch of other exhibits too, but I didn't get pics of those. If you ever find yourself in or near Chicago and are a big museum fan like I am, I HIGHLY recommend checking this one out! It's up there with the Franklin Institute in Philly, the Natural History Museum in New York, and the Air and Space Museum in DC as one of my all time fav museums <3

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National Air & Space Museum 🛩️🛰️ Washington DC

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-North American P51D Mustang G-MRLL USAAF 44-13521 5Q-B Marinell by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: -North American P51D Mustang G-MRLL USAAF 44-13521 5Q-B Marinell This P51 is painted in the colours that was flown by Capt. Bradford Stevens & Lt Myer Winklelman 504th Fighter Squadron 339th Fighter Group which had been based at USAAF Station 378, which was RAF Fowlmere very close to RAF Duxford Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 20th March 2025 -HAA_0916

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Hope everyone's having a good weekend! I stuck my head inside an airplane butthole today.