This past weekend the family and I went over to the Air Force Museum at Warner Robbins AFB in Warner Robbins, Georgia.
If you haven't been or are planning on heading down from "Up Nawth" I-75 to Florida (or visa versa), by all means take the time to stop and visit the museum-it is definitely worth the trip!!!
Anyway, they have a lot of new (at least to me) displays including the "fastest" SR-71 Blackbird, a U-2, P-40, B-29, etc., on display.
Parked outside of the buildings on the lawn are several other aircraft including a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Although I have seen many pictures of F-104's this was the first time I had ever walked up to one and stood next to it.
The Starfighter is a small airplane and I can see how it got the nickname of "Missile With A Man In It."
The wings are "Little," matter of fact, on an offhand guess, I would think that the wing area or the Starfighter is about the same or maybe even less than the wing Area of a Piper Cherokee! One thing for sure, the Starfighter wing is a heck of a lot thinner.
If you haven't been or are planning on heading down from "Up Nawth" I-75 to Florida (or visa versa), by all means take the time to stop and visit the museum-it is definitely worth the trip!!!
Anyway, they have a lot of new (at least to me) displays including the "fastest" SR-71 Blackbird, a U-2, P-40, B-29, etc., on display.
Parked outside of the buildings on the lawn are several other aircraft including a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Although I have seen many pictures of F-104's this was the first time I had ever walked up to one and stood next to it.
The Starfighter is a small airplane and I can see how it got the nickname of "Missile With A Man In It."
The wings are "Little," matter of fact, on an offhand guess, I would think that the wing area or the Starfighter is about the same or maybe even less than the wing Area of a Piper Cherokee! One thing for sure, the Starfighter wing is a heck of a lot thinner.