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Air Power Park
The Air Power Park is an outdoor, roadside museum in Hampton, Virginia which recognizes Hampton's role in America's early space exploration and aircraft testing. The outdoor park is open year-round, seven days a week from sunrise to sunset. Several vintage aircraft and experimental space launch vehicles from the 1950s and 1960s are displayed out of doors. The park is on a plot and includes a children's playground. The indoor museum at the center of the park was reopened after a 2011 renovation (with hours more limited than the outdoor part of the park). There are eight themed rooms containing over 325 models of aircraft, space craft, and nautical vessels representing all the U.S. branches of service as well as various model craft from other nations. The park also has a time capsule Indoor museum *NASA Room *United States Air Force Aviation Room- Including items highlighting nearby Langley Air Force Base's contribution to the USAF. *General Aviation Room *Library *Cold War Era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F-89J Hampton Air Power Park VA 2007
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an American all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. Aircraft that are cap ... built during the 1950s, the first turbojet, jet-powered aircraft designed for that role from the outset to enter service. Though its straight wings limited its performance, it was among the first United States Air Force (USAF) jet fighter aircraft, fighters equipped with guided missiles and notably the first combat aircraft armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons (the unguided AIR-2 Genie, Genie rocket). Design and development The Scorpion stemmed from a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Air Technical Service Command specification ("Military Characteristics for All-Weather Fighting Aircraft") for a night fighter to replace the P-61 Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
