Assorted images from the Wright-Patterson Air Museum. In no particular order and shown without captions as I am no expert on aircraft. Also sorry to say but this grouping does not include photos from the new hanger. Hopefully one day soon I will be able to also add those new exhibits to this collection.

We start with a few shots outdoors and then move quickly inside with the photos displayed in roughly historical order moving through the museum.

Enjoy


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A little Photoshop here.

Thanks Mike, cool pictures. I love that place.

Getting ready for launch on the Dolittle raid!

I love that the Wright-Pat does 1 to 1 scale dioramas!





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Great photos, thanks for sharing them. I live about 4 hours north of Dayton and have been there many times, it's my favorite museum. You might be interested in a video walkthrough of the museum on Youtube. Erik Johnston has a 4 part feature he made with a unique point of view. He walks through the museum with his camera mounted on an extendable pole so the view varies from 8 to 15 feet off the floor rather than eye level. It's pretty cool. Thanks again, Mark

On Fridays, they have backlot tours. Its amazing what they have in progress in the restoration areas.I've been on that tour twice. I got to see the Memphis Belle stipped and in pieces the first time, and in the reassemble stage.

I would love to have a shot at the backlot tour across the airport from the Museum!!!!!!

I wanted to end up with a high res portrait of the V-2 so the top picture is actually 3 photos carefully taken and then manually stitched together in GIMP.

Michael,

Really nice photography! Last time I was there a few years ago my pix did not turn out as good. What camera you use? My (literally) rocket scientist buddy used his smart phone and his photos were much better than my camera.

But this is about NMUSAF exhibits and not cameras. There's a lot to see there. They have some original lozenge camo fabric from WWI that I couldn't get a satisfactory shot of; also some parts from Rittmeister von Ricthoffen's plane. Very interesting that they show British planes used by USAAF.

I look forward to more.

Sorry I could not get a shot of the front end of the Meillerwagen as the C-47 Dakota was in the way.

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Nice article on the restoration of the V-2 at the Wright-Pat here:

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/others/usafm-v2.html

Fred as far as camera's go I was using a Canon 50D DSLR (that one uses the smaller C sized sensor.) I was on maxim ISO of 3200. Shooting hand held with an 28 to 128mm zoom lens with image stabilization. I hope that helps.

Also, the Canon in-camera digital processing software IMHO is excellent. After that these photos have been run through a post production routine using GIMP photo processing software. However all I did with GIMP was to crop, burn some of the overly bright areas and in some cases desaturate some overly intense colors.

Finally, as you can probably tell, almost all the photography was done using only available light. On subjects this large attempting to use a single on-camera flash serves only as is a path to failure.