Feature Associate - Homer Webb

We are fortunate at the Cold War Air Museum to have a fine group of associates and volunteers.

Homer Webb is an Assistant Principal in the nearby DeSoto Schools, Alternative Education Program. Homer is a frequent visitor and volunteer who can easily talk with both grown ups and kids about the history of the aircraft and the cold war. Just a few hours away from finishing his private pilot rating, Homer has ridden and flown in various musuem associate's aircraft and looks forward to the opportunity to fly in this L39 someday (hopefully soon).

Homer recently visited the Aircraft "Boneyard" near Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

Homer's pictures, like that of the Sr-71 above, add detail and interest not found in our previous story about Davis Monthan, "Miles and Miles of Dreams" posted last year.

Mig Mannequin

A number of the associates at the Cold War Air Museum have been on "vacation" from blogging lately. Kicking things back off again is a story about a new decoration for one of our displays,

Browsing ebay(tm) connected us with a mannequin and helmet that looked perfect for our use. We were lucky enough to win the listing and after a short wait, our prize arrived.

The head now looks out from our Mig21, carefully watching for target acquisition.

Many visitors don't notice the head until they are right up by the aircraft. Some of the startled reactions are fun to watch.

Father's Day Weekend

Father's Day weekend turned out to be pretty busy for the museum. On Saturday the Mi-24 made some flights. Here is bord 118 running up the engines.


Some photos and impressions from inside the Hind while in flight. Looking out through the side windows towards the wing and landing gear



Some views from the rear cockpit while Bruce flies.



Some views from the front cockpit including a 150 knot low pass above Lancaster's runway.



Downtown Dallas in the crosshairs


On Sunday the museum got some more Father's Day visitors coming in while bord 120 performed an engine run



Soon afterwards bord 118 went up again. This time a T-28 flown by Jason Newburg - "Viper Airshows" took off right after the Hind and joined up for a cool formation. Some photos of the flights, the front profile of the Mi-24 is just too mean! It could probably scare its enemies into submission...

Tracie is in the front cockpit ready to take off




While all this was going on, Miguel was in the hangars shooting models both days. Hopefully his photos will be up soon as well.

More pics from Midway and Happy Father's Day

Another of our volunteers brought in more pictures from the Balloon Extravaganza Event and we are happy to include them here. Thanks Sean!

The Hind was admired and commented on by the crowd. Associates from the museum answered questions about the aircraft and its restoration.

A view of the Hind in flight from the CJ on the way to the show.

This year's Father's Day event added another several hundred visitors to both the CAF and the Cold War Air Museum's visitor totals.

Our friendly correspondent from Bulgaria, Ivan was also in attendance and took numerous photographs of the Hind while gathering information for another story about the Hind restoration and the Museum. We are looking forward to seeing more of his work published soon.

And we are also looking forward to another round of pictures on Miguel's Flikr page. He and several models were also out for another photo shootl.

Just another busy weekend at the Cold War Air Museum. Come and visit, we try to fly something every Saturday.