Photos from Dayton, 30-03-2012, part 4; last lot!

Into the Cold War galleries, with some funky stuff I've not seen before.

The rather large and splendid B2 Spirit.

F-117A

Boeing unmammed UAV protoype

F22 Raptor

Question for Charile; what's odd about this Boing Peacemaker? Answer further down.....

One for Gary; MH-53 PaveLow

AC-130 Gunship

And another view of the Peacemaker; did you get that the engines are the wrong way around?

Two oddities: first, a gondola from the highest ever parachute jump. Imagine stepping off this at 102,000 feet up?

And an early NASA idea for getting around in space, a jet sled, soon abandoned as not a good idea!

A view of the gallery at large:

and a Dragon Lady, i.e a U-2

Nose art from the EC-135 "Bierd of Prey" reconnaisance aircraft

And finally, the C-141 Starlifter; famous for two reasons, i) the was the last Starlifter in active service and ii) it;'s the Hanoi Taxi, the first aircraft into Hanoi to pring back POWs from the Vietnam War....

That's about it; hope you enjoyed them"!