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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:00 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:07 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:03 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:04 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:05 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery Skybride

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:00 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:04 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:05 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:06 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:06 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:02 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:03 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:02 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Charles Simonyi Space Gallery Skybridge

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:01 -0700

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Charles Simonyi
Space Gallery
Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington

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Museum of Flight Seattle

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:55:16 -0700

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Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington
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Museum of Flight Seattle

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:55:26 -0700

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Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington
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Lockheed M-21 Blackbird Museum of Flight Seattle

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:55:20 -0700

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Seattle, Washington
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Lockheed M-21 Blackbird

The Blackbird family of aircraft cruise at speeds of more than Mach 3 and fly over 85,000 feet (25,500 m) in altitude. Conceived nearly 50 years ago, Blackbirds remain the fastest and highest flying air-breathing production aircraft ever built.

This M-21 is a unique variant of the A-12, the earliest Blackbird type. Built for a CIA program code-named "Tagboard," the M-21 carried unpiloted vehicles for intelligence gathering. These drones were intended for launch from the M-21 "mother ship" for flights over hostile territories. Design features of the M-21 include the second seat for the Launch Control Officer and the launch pylon on which the drone is mounted.

The Museum's M-21 was built in 1963, and is the sole surviving example of its type.

This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

North American P-51D Mustang Museum of Flight Seattle

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:55:09 -0700

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Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington
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North American P-51D Mustang

The prototype for the North American Mustang first flew in October 1940. It was designed and built in 120 days in response to an urgent request by the British for a low-altitude fighter/reconnaissance aircraft. It combined the proven Allison V-1710 engine with an innovative cooling system, based on earlier work by the Curtiss Aircraft Company, and laminar-flow wings to gain more stability and speed. Needing a fighter with better high-altitude performance, the U.S. mated the proven Mustang airframe with the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. The result was the P-51B Mustang — a long-range, high-performance fighter-bomber with the range to escort bombers from Britain to Berlin and back again. The famous D model had a bubbletop canopy and two more machine guns. In the Pacific, the P-51 escorted B-29s on very long range (VLR) bombing raids over Tokyo.

Although almost certainly one of the best P-51D restorations in existence, the Museum’s aircraft retains a certain mystery as to its origins. Last serving operationally with the Israeli Defense Force/Air Force, the aircraft was probably acquired by Israel from surplus Royal Swedish Air Force stocks in 1952. The Swedes acquired nearly all of their 100 P-51s from war-surplus U.S. Army Air Forces stockpiles in Germany at the end of World War II, making this airframe a probable wartime veteran. Unfortunately, when Israel acquired its P-51s, many of them had their original manufacturer’s data plates removed.

This restored aircraft displays the colors and markings of Lieutenant Colonel Glenn T. Eagleston while he was Commanding Officer of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group flying from Rosières-en-Haye, France, in early 1945. This was the same unit of young Lieutenant Kenneth H. Dahlberg, and Eagleston was his commanding officer. Many years later, Ken Dahlberg, an ace in his own right, was the primary benefactor in the creation of the Kenneth H. Dahlberg Military Aviation Research Center here at the Museum. This accurate restoration was completed by the Champion Air Group and the restoration team at Vintage Airframes in Caldwell, Idaho, especially for the Museum of Flight.

Museum of Flight Seattle

nobody@flickr.com (BnGphotos) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:55:18 -0700

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Museum of Flight
Seattle, Washington
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