The Cavanaugh Air Museum, at the Addison Airport just north of Dallas TX, is not very big, but has a nice collection ranging from WW1 replicas to Cold War veterans. So here are some photos from a visit.
The museum
The Link trainer, used to teach instrument flying
Christen Eagle II. A homebuilt kit aerobatic airplane from the 70s.
B-25 “How Boot That?”, which saw combat in Italy
Sopwith Camel. A replica built from original factory drawings, using period machine guns and engine.
The WW1 Gnome rotary engine.The propeller was fixed in place, and the whole engine spun around.
F-105 Thunderchief. The poor ole girl needs a new paintjob.
F-104 Starfighter. Famous for crashing, a lot.
UH-1 helicopter. Its official nickname was the “Iroquois”, but everyone called it the “Huey”.
MiG-21U, the two-seat trainer version of the MiG-21 fighter. This one is in North Vietnamese livery. I love this paintjob.
TS-11 Iskra, a Polish trainer used during the Cold War
Yakovlev Yak-3, a WW2 fighter. This is a modern copy built and sold in Russia by the Yakovlev company.
Wildcat, a WW2 carrier-based fighter. This is the GM-built version known as the FM-2.
Messerchmitt Bf-109. This one was built in 1943 and sold to Spain.
Spitfire Mk VII
F9F Panther, the US Navy’s first carrier-based jet fighter.
Didn’t you wish when you were a kid that you could have a Link trainer in your room?
Hell yeh, if I’da had a Link in my bedroom I’d have never seen sunlight. š
What’d be supercool would be to hook it up to some computer monitors as windows and then fly it with MS Combat Flight Sim. š