Darius at home Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 (edited) Visiting my cousin in Denver CO for the last few days and made a trip to the Wings over the Rockies aviation museum, which is located on the site of the former Lowry AFB (in one of the old hangars). What a great museum!!! I spent a very pleasant morning there. Edited November 10, 2012 by Darius at home Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Chorse6 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Wow!! Looks like they made some improvements since I was there in 2002. Need to get back there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FAR148 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Any pic of the X-wing? Steven L Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Roberts Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 It's a great museum. My brother lives in Denver and we go out there everytime I visit. I've got a couple of models in their display cases as a "thank you" for all they do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fasteagle12 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 I'm not familiar with the plane in the foreground. Got any info on it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bdt13 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 A VERY impressive collection - thank you for sharing these with us. :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 I'm not familiar with the plane in the foreground. Got any info on it? Its a Ball-Bartoe Jetwing Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappie Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Well I'll be damned! Hi Darius! That is the hanger where I did my initial F-16 bomb loader training! They made it a museum? That is so frigging cool. I recognize several of the airplanes in there- the A-7, F-111, and B-1 were all there back in 1994. I was in the second to last F-16 class to go through Lowry. Being from the flat east coast I never tired of walking out the front door of my barracks and seeing the Rocky Mountains. On the weekends I'd see the Rockies from the cockpit of an Pitts S-2B I used to rent out at Centennial Airport. Would you believe my classmates and I used to shine that entire hangar floor every Friday? We'd put down some kind of sweeping compound then used push brooms and walk up and down up and down that floor until it shined. Chappie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RiderFan Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 They fly a lot of X-Wing fighters over the Rockies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stevehnz Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Thats a really nice line up of Aircraft, one that I'd go out of my way to visit, heck, I can actually ID a few of them. Thanks for sharing them with us Darius. You havn't got a bit of an F-100 thing going have you?;) (I think more of that than any other :D) The Bolo looks good in the OD/NG finish, it'd make a nice model like this. Steve. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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