I'll have to make a trip to the Gerber facility.

Rob barnard

Bill Freeman wrote:

Make sure you check in advance as the Garber Facility is a restoration
facility, not really a museum.  Well worth the trip, but make sure you call
and find out when the docents run each tour, since you can't just wander thru
like a regular museum.  I've got friends there and have sat in Enola Gay
and their Kingfisher.   Very neat place, wonderful people, will answer
intelligent
questions ad infinitum.   You can usually see some restoration work
underway, and
a heck of a lot of aircraft that are not on display in DC.  It is in Silver
Hill, MD
and used to be just called "Silver Hill"; just outside of DC.  In case it is not
clear, this is the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum's restoration and storage
facility.  Sad that a lot of REALLY neat stuff is just stored away either
unrestored,
or in some cases, restored, disassembled, plastic wrapped and stored in a closed
warehouse.  Sad to see an unrestored Jill mouldering next to a fully
restored and
wrapped, dissassembled Do-339, among other things.

Bill Freeman

 
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