Hello Jim:
=> I am sure i would like to spend several days there, especially in the 
engines
=> engine area.
          They are clearly putting in one area, their inventory of
recips.  There are a couple of cutaways which currently sit beside the
respective aircraft in which that engine is installed, but most of the
other intact inlines, radials, rotaries, Vee's and oil burners are now in
the Modern hangar.
=> area. Seems to me that piston engines are more works of art that jets. A 
C-5A
=> 
          That is generally true.   Excepting finer tolerances made
possible by advances in metalurgy, the last of the radials and V-12s were
generally a more complex development than the gas turbine is today.  The
Big Rounds certainly had more character and sounded much better too.....
:-)
=> launch rocket. Foto in the AM paper showing the C-5A with a horse on the 
othe
=> other side of the fence.
          The C-5 which attended the Niagara Falls, NY airshow suffered a
hydraulic pump failure in the noise when she was taxiing in.  There was
fluid  ALL OVER  the ramp when I approached the a/c early Saturday
morning.   I asked about the leak, and the Skipper told me that I wasn't
supposed to notice that.....   :-(    They had another pump enroute and
wanted to get the mess cleaned up so people didn't walk through it.
They had the tail open, but did not have the nose raised, and could not,
until the new pump was installed.   When I asked what pump had failed, he
said, "The Crew Chief is on it;  I dunno.  I only fly it!!"   :-)
          Interesting.  
=> area. Seems to me that piston engines are more works of art that jets. A 
C-5A
=>
=> was in to Buckley ANGB yesterday. Probablky means they picked up another 
Tita
=> launch rocket
          Where are they taking the rockets Jim?
                                                       Ken
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