Great aviation museum

Right now, it has an SR-71 sitting under the right wing. The blackbird
looks tiny.

My wife and I visited a couple of weeks ago. Terrific Museum. The SR71
IS small. I'd never seen one up close.

Um, the SR-71 is bigger than a World War II bomber, and almost as big
as a modern airliner.

"Small" it is not.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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Jay Honeck wrote:
Right now, it has an SR-71 sitting under the right wing. The blackbird
looks tiny.

My wife and I visited a couple of weeks ago. Terrific Museum. The SR71
IS small. I'd never seen one up close.

Um, the SR-71 is bigger than a World War II bomber, and almost as big
as a modern airliner.

"Small" it is not.

It looks small due to the narrow wingspan and small fuselage. The
wingspan of an SR-71 is only 20ft more then a Cherokee (55ft vs
35ft). Length is about the only measurement it isn't small in.
I remember walking around the one at the Air Force Museum and
thinking how small it looked.

For comparison:

SR-71 B-17 PA-28
----- ---- -----
Wingspan 55ft 7in 103ft 9in 35ft
Height 18ft 6in 19ft 1in 7ft 4in
Length 107ft 5in 74ft 4in 23ft 10in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa-28 (I've actually flown the Warrior
pictured in the article. I guess that's worth 15 seconds
of internet fame.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Right now, it has an SR-71 sitting under the right wing. The
blackbird
looks tiny.

My wife and I visited a couple of weeks ago. Terrific Museum. The
SR71
IS small. I'd never seen one up close.

Um, the SR-71 is bigger than a World War II bomber, and almost as big
as a modern airliner.


At the Boeing Museum of Flight they have a Blackbird cockpit that you can
sit in.

All the kids hover around the F-16 cockpit while their fathers sort of stare
at the other in something like teary-eyed wonder. I wonder how many
fully-grown adults throw tantrums when their wives tell them it's time to
get out and let the next guy play.

-c

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Right now, it has an SR-71 sitting under the right wing. The
blackbird
looks tiny.

My wife and I visited a couple of weeks ago. Terrific Museum. The
SR71
IS small. I'd never seen one up close.

Um, the SR-71 is bigger than a World War II bomber, and almost as big
as a modern airliner.

"Small" it is not.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



It may be as long as the B17 parked behind it, but no where near as
wide. The wing is THIN, maybe a foot? The B17 probably has more internal
space in 1 wing than the SR has total. I had never seen one on the ground,
and I thought they were 1/2 again as large.

Al G

"Al G" wrote:
It may be as long as the B17 parked behind it, but no where near
as
wide. The wing is THIN, maybe a foot? The B17 probably has more
internal space in 1 wing than the SR has total. I had never seen one
on the ground, and I thought they were 1/2 again as large.

Here's a picture of the D-21 at Evergreen (you can just see the nose of the
B-17, which is behind the SR-71 in this photo, the D-21 to the right and in
front of the the SR-71's left wing, and part of the trailing edge of the
right wing of the Spruce Goose at the top of the picture frame):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...reenSR-71A.jpg