Comments on: Vintage Aircraft Tool Cataloging, Re-housing and Preservation Project

By: carroll bowman

carroll bowman — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:52:39 +0000

photos of this restoration would be all to useful for model builders like my self and others.

By: Sharron Clemons

Sharron Clemons — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:23:46 +0000

Nothing but high praise for every one. Joe Gabura

By: Joseph Gabura

Joseph Gabura — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:07:30 +0000

Nothing but high praise for every one.

Joe Gabura

By: Joseph Gabura

Joseph Gabura — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:04:22 +0000

Me and three of my sons had the pleasure of visiting Udvar-hazy and the Smithsonian aviation museums. I wish to congratulate every one associated with these museums, the hangar builders, the aircraft restorers, the tour guides, the staff, everyone is doing an excellent job. There are some WWII aircraft that I had hoped to see, but I understand that there are still a lot of aircraft waiting to be restored. so, hopefully they will come.

By: Martijn K.

Martijn K. — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:51:53 +0000

Lovely work, i hope the planes (when restored) will come to Europe. I’d love to see them life.

By: Frank Baumgärtner

Frank Baumgärtner — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:35:18 +0000

Hello
Are a large fan the tank Ta 152 H. I am interested in color photos of this machin Focke Wulf Ta-152H-0.Would it be to be ordered possible with you these pictures? or it is possible a coworker of them me which to make can. as order, I would also pay
best regards
Frank Baumgärtner

By: museum guide

museum guide — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:11:27 +0000

Amazing how intact the fuselage is for that German fighter. It would be interesting to find out the story behind how exactly it was captured and brought to the U.S.

By: Doug Ramsdell

Doug Ramsdell — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:44:02 +0000

I think the story of HOW the Smithsonian restores aircraft would be a fascinating video program/blog feature/whatever. Questions about what SHOULD be done, versus what CAN be done, on a given project–and how total a restoration should be–are fascinating, and you have all those real-world examples in the museum. I remember one time at the Garber facility talking to one of the restorers who was explaining that in the process of dismantling a WWI fighter for restoration, the crew found an old Hershey bar wrapper from the 20s wedged under the floor. The question was what to do with the Hershey bar wrapper. I believe the wrapper was put back where it had been found, when the restored plane was put together again.

More features like this please!!!