Commerative Air Museum

We went to the Commerative Air Museum at the Midland airport.  Most people have probably heard it called the Confederate Air Force Museum.  Same thing --  now just more politically correct name.  The museum is huge with every kind of World War II memorabilia.  The museum also has the largest collection anywhere of airplane nose art from WWII.  The pilots had the noses of their planes painted  -- usually with a painting of a pretty lady.  The ones at the museum were quite racy.  You cannot take pictures of the art.  I assume its because camera flashes can fade the paint. 

The red plane is a Luscombe.  Back when Jim was flying out of a grass strip on a friends property he had the chance to fly this same kind of plane several times.   There was a Stinson in the museum but I didn't show the picture.  Jim owned a Stinson but it was bigger than the one they had at the museum.  Nothing like making you feel really old when all the planes you used to fly are in a museum.  Most of the really cool WWII planes that the museum has were actually gone to an airshow in Florida.