My Selfridge ANG Museum Visit Options

[SubRosa]

My brother and I went to visit the museum they have at the Selfridge Air National Guard base near where we live. It is only open on weekends, which I rarely have off, so this was a rare opportunity. I took way too many pictures to put here, and a twenty minute video from the inside of a sub hunter plane. The latter was really awesome, as there was a volunteer named Flash (his nickname, not real name) who was one of the air crew of the same plane back in the day. He took us from end to end inside the plane and explained everything there was, and shared a few anecdotes from his time time in the service. Like how he got the name Flash (which thankfully had nothing to do with exposing himself...)

I am going to try using Google Photos here, and see how it turns out for sharing pictures.


A Nike Hercules Missile (we had these in a base a few miles from where I live, armed with nuclear warheads)

Another view of the Nike Hercules

A Cobra

it is the skinniest aircraft ever

The famous Huey

This ought to look familiar to some of you...

The F-86 Super Sabre

Lighthammer's old ride, and A-10 Warthog

An F-4 Corsair from WWII

The size of that engine is astounding.

A cutaway showing how the guns were mounted inside the wing

The P-3 Orion submarine hunter I mentioned above

The P-3's interior looking forward. This is where they dropped its sonar probes

Two different model gatling cannons

A radar station

The info on a Nuclear Rocket designed to shoot down enemy bombers. The Cold War was something else.

The actual rocket

Some air to air missiles. If I recall the top one is a Sidewinder

Sitting in the cockpit of an A-7 Corsair

The instrument panel

My 5 inch platform heels were perfect for this (just kidding)

Looking straight ahead

In the F-16 Cockpit

The instruments

Obviously something too interesting for the public was mounted here

The joystick is on the right hand instead of between your legs

The throttle on the left

[mirocu]

Great set of pics, Sub! I recognize many of the items displayed such as the Sidewinder missile and the Cobra (both featured in Longbow 2 for the PC) and of course the Huey - FLAFF-FLAFF-FLAFF-FLAFF-FLAFF


Also, one can easily see how the Vulcan is called the "mini" gun when compared to its larger brother. I know it comes from using a smaller caliber but the size difference reflect it too I think.

The joystick is on the right hand instead of between your legs

Oh, the mental strain from refraining making the joke you so obviously set up.



Or is it just me...?