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The Air Classics Museum

How they managed to get their filthy mitts on the airplanes they have, I'll never know.

How they managed to get their filthy mitts on the airplanes they have, I’ll never know.

As luck would have it, last Saturday offered up free admittance to Air Classics Museum in nearby North Aurora, Illinois. Their annual open house just happened to fall on June 14th, the day I was going anyway. I’d previously passed it on the way to somewhere else, and seeing a cluster of WWII through ‘Nam-era fighter aircraft parked outside behind a fence piqued my interest, you betcha.

One of the two rows of aircraft on display.

One of the two rows of aircraft on display.

I think it’s important to approach this museum with an awareness of what it’s about. We, or at least I, associate museums with Read more…

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