2022-02-08-SAC-Museum-Omaha: Strategic Air Command Museum near Omaha (Ashland), Nebraska is just off I-80. It is a privately funded museum, has an SR-71, B-52 and many more military interest aircraft. There are also STEM activities for children of all ages. This is part 1 of a 3 part series driving from Fort Collins to SAC/Omaha, then to Kalamazoo Michigan for the Kalamazoo Air Zoo, then over the Mackinac Bridge to Iron Mountain Michigan thru Antigo Wisconsin, an indian reservation back to Fort Collins. 02/09/22

	Dewey's Restaurant in Stoneham, Colorado, off Highway 14 before Sterling, 02/08/22	Great Platte River Road Archway Monument at Kearney, NB, 1, 02/08/22	Great Platte River Road Archway Monument at Kearney, NB, 2, 02/08/22	Great Platte River Road Archway Monument at Kearney, NB, 3, 02/08/22	Great Platte River Road Archway Monument at Kearney, NB, 4, 02/08/22

	Ashland, NB is the I-80 exit for the SAC Museum, 1, 02/08/22	Ashland, NB is the I-80 exit for the SAC Museum, 2, 02/08/22	Ashland, NB is the I-80 exit for the SAC Museum, 3, 02/08/22	First view of the SAC Museum, 02/08/22	Entrance to the SAC Museum, looking NNW, 02/08/22

	Missile display, 02/08/22	Jer/'s Yukon in the SAC Museum parking lot, 02/08/22	Missile and drone display, 02/08/22	Strategic Air Command logo, 02/08/22	Looking SSE toward the SAC Museum entrance, 02/08/22

	Walkway to the SAC Museum entrance, 02/08/22	SR-71 above the entrance foyer, notice glassed in atrium, 1, 02/09/22	SR-71 in the main lobby, 2, 02/09/22	MaxFlight STEM simulator for the kids, 02/09/22	Beyond the STEM area, looking over the airplanes, 02/09/22

	Large display hangar with B-17, B-36 in the background, 1, 02/09/22	Large display hangar with B-17, B-36 in the background, 2, 02/09/22	Chip Davis & Mannheim Steamroller Gallery, Design Zone, STEM entrance, 02/09/22	Hands on Balancing Art display, 02/09/22	Design a Skate Park, 02/09/22

	Whack-a-Phone, 02/09/22	SAC Lunch Cafe, 02/09/22	USA, SAC, POW and other flags and SAC Logo monument, 02/09/22	Large hangar entrance, beginning the floor wandering, 02/09/22	F-4 Phantom, Nebraska wing fighter, 02/09/22

	F-4 Phantom fighter, 02/09/22	F-101B Voodoo All-Weather Fighter, 02/09/22	F-101B, 1, 02/09/22	F-101B, 2, 02/09/22	Tail hook for carrier landing, 02/09/22

	F-86 Sabre, Evolution of a Jet Fighter, 02/09/22	F-86 Sabre, 02/09/22	F-84F Thunderstreak Fighter/Interceptor, 02/09/22	F-84F Thunderstreak, 02/09/22	World War II: Doolittle Raid Importance, 02/09/22

	B-25N Mitchell, 1, 02/09/22	B-25N Mitchell, 2, 02/09/22	B-25N Mitchell, 3, 02/09/22	Doolittle Raid B-25 Mitchell Bomber display, 02/09/22	B-25 from the front, 02/09/22

	B-36, 3 props and 2 jets on each wing, 02/09/22	B-36 landing gear, 02/09/22	XF-86 Goblin Fighter/Escort "Parasite Fighter", 1, 02/09/22	XF-86 Goblin Fighter/Escort "Parasite Fighter", 2, 02/09/22	? Bomber cockpit, 02/09/22

	WWII display, notice Stalin in the video, 02/09/22	Charles M. Harper Theater, by RIR Nabisco, 02/09/22	Air War Vietnam, 02/09/22	Vietnam War model airplane display, 02/09/22	RB-45C Reconnaissance, 02/09/22

	Nebraska Charter No. 1 Korean War Veterans display, 02/09/22	USA war leaders, 02/09/22	Lord, Guard and Guide the Men Who Fly, by Mary C.D. Hamilton, 02/09/22	Fallout shelter with supplies, 02/09/22	Missile launch control, 02/09/22

	Rocketdyne LR-101 Vernier engine, 02/09/22	Rocketdyne launch control, 02/09/22	Seemann Theater, WWII. Lee Seemann was a WWII B-17 pilot from Nebraska, 02/09/22	WWII display case in Seemann Theater, 02/09/22	The Jet Age display, 02/09/22

	B-58A Hustler, supersonic, strategic bomber, 02/09/22	B-58A engines, 02/09/22	B-58A Hustler, note 3 individual canopies for 3 crew, 02/09/22	B-58A Hustler, note fuel and bomb pod under fuselage, 02/09/22	B-58A Hustler with spare engine, 02/09/22

	B-58A Hustler "Greased Lightening", speed record Tokyo to London, 02/09/22	RB-47E/H Stratojet notebook, 02/09/22	RB-47E/H Stratojet, 02/09/22	B-52B (RB) Heavy Bomber description, 02/09/22	B-52B cockpit side view, 02/09/22

	B-52 model with simulated service support, 02/09/22	B-52 engines, 02/09/22	B-52 bomb bay, 02/09/22	B-52, 02/09/22	B-25 bomb racks, 02/09/22

	B-25 cockpit, 02/09/22	B-25 switch panel, fuzzy, 02/09/22	B-25 interior display, 02/09/22	Convair F102A Delta Dagger description, 02/09/22	Convair F102A, 02/09/22

	B-52B cockpit display, 02/09/22	The Eighth Air Force, 02/09/22	Patriotic display: clouds and US Flag, 02/09/22	The U-2 Incident: Part One, Francis Gary Powers, 02/09/22	The U-2 Incident: Part Two, Francis Gary Powers, 02/09/22

	U-2 overhead, B-17 underneath, 02/09/22	Space suits, 02/09/22	Link Trainer, 02/09/22	STEM: Children's Learning Center entrance, 02/09/22	STEM: Tennis Ball Launcher, 02/09/22

	STEM: Engineering discovery center, 02/09/22	STEM: Aviation F-14, kid size, 02/09/22	C-119G Cargo Transport description, 02/09/22	C-119, 02/09/22	C-119G cargo bay, 02/09/22

	C-119G cargo bay from the back, looking forward, 02/09/22	Breakout area under C-119G cargo plane, 02/09/22	KC-97G Aerial Refueling Tanker description, 02/09/22	KC-97G Aerial Refueling Tanker, 02/09/22	Transport ?, 1, 02/09/22

	Transport ?, 2, 02/09/22	MiG-21F Russian Fighter description, 02/09/22	MiG-21F Russian Fighter, 02/09/22	F-117 Stealth Fighter, 02/09/22	Maintenance/rebuild hangar, 1, 02/09/22

	Maintenance/rebuild hangar, 2, 02/09/22	C-54D Cargo/Troop Transport, 02/09/22	C-54D "Skymaster", 02/09/22	C-54D, 02/09/22	DC-3, 02/09/22

	B-29TB "SuperFortress" display, 02/09/22	B-29TM "Lucky Lady", 1, 02/09/22	B-29TM "Lucky Lady", 2, 02/09/22	? 4 engine bomber?, 02/09/22	? 4 engine bomber? cockpit, 1, 02/09/22

	? 4 engine bomber? cockpit, 2, 02/09/22	Space Shuttle kids talk, 02/09/22	Helicopter over KC-97G, 1, 02/09/22	Helicopter over KC-97G, 2, 02/09/22	KC-97G, 1, 02/09/22

	KC-97G, 2, 02/09/22	EC-135C "Looking Glass" display, 1, 02/09/22	EC-135C "Looking Glass", display, 2, 02/09/22	EC-135C "Looking Glass", display, 3, 02/09/22	EC-135C "Looking Glass", 1, 02/09/22

	Space: Humanity's Longest Journey, 02/09/22	Mercury space capsule mockup, 02/09/22	Sputnik and dogs sent to space story board, 02/09/22	"Mercury 7" and the Mercury Space Program, 02/09/22	US Space Program, 1, 02/09/22

	US Space Program, 2, 02/09/22	Gemini capsule, 02/09/22	Race to the Moon, 02/09/22	Space TV shows from the 1960s, 02/09/22	NASA X-38 CRV="Crew Recovery Vehicle", 02/09/22

	NASA X-38 CRV="Crew Recovery Vehicle" on its trailer, 02/09/22	NASA Shuttle Avionics Integrated Laboratory, 02/09/22	Space Shuttle and Skylab display, 02/09/22	Shuttle cockpit panel, 1, 02/09/22	Shuttle cockpit panel, 2, 02/09/22

	Space Shuttle Discovery tire, black, note "fine" tread, 02/09/22	Durham Restoration Gallery, 02/09/22	From balcony looking into the Durham Restoration Gallery, 1, 02/09/22	From balcony looking into the Durham Restoration Gallery, 2, 02/09/22	Interesting "Glass Barn" on I-80 near Omaha, 02/09/22

	I-80 sometimes has long, straight stretches of road, 02/09/22	Bridge over the Missouri River at Omaha/Council Bluffs, 1, 02/09/22	Bridge over the Missouri River at Omaha/Council Bluffs, 2, 02/09/22	Jer/ in RAF="Recreational Aviation Foundation" hat in front of the Strategic Air Command Museum near Omaha, 02/08/22	Jer/ selfie with space suit, 02/09/22

	Jer/'s Uncle Roland Eberhard's picture and WWII medals. Roland died at the Cabanatuan POW camp north of Manila in the Philippines on June 28, 1942 (after the Bataan Death March). 02/09/22

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