Showing posts with label Mountain Flying Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountain Flying Museum. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Mountain Flying Museum

It's at the Missoula airport.  Underwhelming but still worth the visit.  This replica of the Red Baron's plane was based on a scale model; the builder was unable to locate the original plans.



I recall seeing pictures of this in some magazine, don't recall who made it or what it's called.


The venerable DC-3, military version C-47.  This one was refurbished and flown across the pond to celebrate the anniversary of D Day.

 I rode in these several times, first in the forest service en route to a fire in the Seven Devils Wilderness.  Indeed, it was a Johnson Flying Service plane and may have been this one.  Johnson was an aviation pioneer and pilot trainer, trained several thousand air force pilots.

C-47s were one of the workhorses in Vietnam, flew in them several times.


This is the front end of the plane above.