Display the Tri?
- Thread starter bgytr
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Could actually do sailing first..
Berthed in the lagoon of the first trans pacific flights
Next to the USS Hornet museum which picked up Neil Armstrong and crew mates
USS Hornet
and then outside LArry's office
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AC Museum
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Brutal
Anarchist
Nice idea, but it would never work. The two Smithsonian A & S museums a fairly inaccessible for the platform. The main museum is on the Mall in downtown DC. There's no way to get it there or if you could chopper it in (huge risk there, not to mention the heavily restricted airspace), it wouldn't fit in any door to the building. The A & S Annex is out by Dulles Airport in Virginia. If they could fly the platform in, they could get it in that building, but the risk of flying it in would most likely be prohibitive. Also, Dulles has insanely busy airspace and the Annex is located just past the end of their primary North/South runways.
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NACRADUDE
Super Anarchist
It's got nowhere to go inside that Annex building. It has the first Space Shuttle and an SR 71 taking up most uf the floorplus no door to bring it in.
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WetHog
Super Anarchist
Display tent next to the Annex. Shit both BMWO and Alinghi have them and they would probably sell them cheap. Set up one of those big ass white tents and put DoGy inside it for a 2-3 month exihbition. On second thought, they should display it in Annapolis. The David Taylor Research Center is across the Severn River from the Naval Academy and its mostly vacant and has some dock space that could be modified to hold the beast. BMWO could display the wing horizontally in a tent next to the docks and fit a soft sail rig so they could take 17 on the bay for a spin. I'd pay whatever they would charge for a ride, The Wife be damned. :lol:
KZ-1 showed up for a visit way back when. They had it at the end of the Annapolis City Dock in a cradle for a day or two. And Annapolis hosted the VOR boats once or twice. Make it happen BMWO. The reception would be off the chain.
WetHog
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Brutal
Anarchist
It's been over a year since I've been there, but the southern end of the main hangar had tons of space still available. I mean the building is HUGE!!!! As far as a door? There are huge hangar doors at the northern and southern ends of the building. How do you think they got the Concorde in there? They wouldn't be able to step the wing because the ceiling isn't high enough, but the tri platform itself could fit. Also, the Enterprise and SR-71 don't take up most of the floorspace... The have larger aircraft than both of them in there. The Concorde and Enola Gay are just 2 that come to the top of my head.
The issue is getting the platform there. It's too large to go be trucked in and it would be one hell of a chopper ride to get it there. And let's not forget the disruption it would cause to air traffic at Dulles. Neither A & S museum is a viable option.
alphafb552
Super Anarchist
It's not very likely the platform will ever sail again, so it shouldn't be a problem to remove the amas and the crossbeams, and reassemble her once inside...
phomchick
Super Anarchist
I was hoping to see it in San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld, but time is running out, and it doesn't look like that is going to happen.
flaps15
Super Anarchist
The only "Tri" truly appropriate to the Air & Space Mueseum.
phomchick
Super Anarchist
So true. Why would the Smithsonian be interested in displaying a boat at the Air and Space museum?The only "Tri" truly appropriate to the Air & Space Mueseum.
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The only "Tri" truly appropriate to the Air & Space Mueseum.
I flew in one of those on "Island Airlines"..in Lake erie!
and DZ belongs in the SF Bay sailing first. I wouldn't begrudge it being stored in Oracles lagoon either for awhile- they paid for it!
Sneaky Duck
Anarchist
Might sound dumb... but another cool place to display it would be a Kitty Hawk. Plenty of space there on the grounds, the buildings are already "tents", and it would be kind of cool to see how the wing developed over the years.
boomermd
New member
I remember that tour of KZ-1 they had it docked outside of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore..that thing was a beastDisplay tent next to the Annex. Shit both BMWO and Alinghi have them and they would probably sell them cheap. Set up one of those big ass white tents and put DoGy inside it for a 2-3 month exihbition. On second thought, they should display it in Annapolis. The David Taylor Research Center is across the Severn River from the Naval Academy and its mostly vacant and has some dock space that could be modified to hold the beast. BMWO could display the wing horizontally in a tent next to the docks and fit a soft sail rig so they could take 17 on the bay for a spin. I'd pay whatever they would charge for a ride, The Wife be damned. :lol:
KZ-1 showed up for a visit way back when. They had it at the end of the Annapolis City Dock in a cradle for a day or two. And Annapolis hosted the VOR boats once or twice. Make it happen BMWO. The reception would be off the chain.
WetHog
hhn92
Super Anarchist
Kitty Hawk does not fit the wind speed parameters of AC33................................................
What happened to the idea of the blimp hanger in SF? :huh:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=112049&view=findpost&p=2949034Kitty Hawk does not fit the wind speed parameters of AC33................................................
What happened to the idea of the blimp hanger in SF? :huh:
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flaps15
Super Anarchist
FYI & FWIW: 4-AT-B c/n 38 [NC7584]. 1928: Robertson Aircraft Corp, St Louis MO. Crashed in Ohio 7/1/77 while in service with Island Airlines; rebuilt by Kal-Aero. 1985: Al Chaney. 10/6/91: Kermit Weeks, badly damaged in Florida by hurricane Andrew in the fall of 1992. LOCATION: Vicksburg MI (near Kalamazoo) for repair by Maurice Hovious.
The only "Tri" truly appropriate to the Air & Space Mueseum.
I flew in one of those on "Island Airlines"..in Lake erie!
and DZ belongs in the SF Bay sailing first. I wouldn't begrudge it being stored in Oracles lagoon either for awhile- they paid for it!
