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Show 'i 18 H.lltop Times LIFETIMES Aug. 9, 1991 jell's vd si Bull ojJDirD Stflh) Air Force News Service ' ' ;M The stealth, a test prototype of the plane that bombed Iraq, i t was flown to f J ..V July 17 to become a permanent display airdecraft. This aircraft was a U S Air force Photo by SSgt. John I Scoggi used model that was velopment extensively for test purposes. Those Silent stealth tests are now complete and because it The AFB, Ohio, taxiway rests on the stealth would not be economically feasible to after its arrival therefighter17. In the background are some of the older aircrat July convert it to operational status, the on display at the museum. stealth fighter was transferred to the Air Force museum. The addition is a "truly extraordi- museum director Richard Uppstrom. base. In addition, the Air Force Muse"To think that less than three years um oversees 29 small Air Force base nary event," said Wright-Pattersoago we did not talk about the F117." museums, including the Hill one, and Other new attractions at the Air aircraft displays and exhibits at 81 n other bases around the world. Force museum include an I MAX theater, an Operation Desert Highlighting the museum's exhibiSR-7Storm display and an exhibit that tion of artifacts is the "Little Boy" recreates the sights and sounds of and "Fat Man" atomic bombs, the pen used by President Harry S. Truman to 1941, the year the United States enand administration building. The create the Air Force and an extensive tered World War II. museum should reopen in early OcThe story of the men and women of uniform and space hardware coltober in its new facility, he said. the Air Force is told to more than 1.5 lection. While not nearly as large as its A more recent acquisition for the million visitors each year at the sister museum at is the uniform of Col. David Wright-Pattersomuseum museum the AFB, Ohio, the Hill museum does W. Eberly, who was held prisoner by world's oldest and largest military aviattract its share of visitors. In June ation museum, located at historic Iraq during Desert Storm. Colonel alone, for example, more than Eberly was the senior American held Wright Field. 10,000 people visited the museum. The Wright-Pattersomuseum, captive during the war. in two housed Probably the most significant single buildings resembling The Hill museum is open Tuesday aircraft hangars, features more than item in the museum is a huge piece of through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 6,000 items and 285 vintage aircraft cloth material from the 1903 Kitty and Saturday and Sunday from 9 Hawk Flyer. and missiles. a.m. to 6 p.m. The museum is closed "You know, if you could cut it up Approximately 35 additional airMondays. Admission is free. For into in two craft are exhibited postage stamp size pieces and sell hangars at more information about the museWright-Pattersoand 15,000 other it, you'd make a fortune," Uppstrom um, call Ext. 76868. historic artifacts are in storage on said. YF-117- by SSgt. David P. Masko AFB. N Ohio Visitors to the Air Force Museum will now be able to see two of aviaF-11- 7 1 Wright-Patterso- n ever-changin- -- n I I ,t -- 4 full-scal- e tion's most spectacular aircraft, the stealth Blackbird and the fighter. the In recent months, the SR-7world's fastest aircraft was added to museum's the SR-7- 1 ' A Wright-Patterso- WRIGHT-PATTERSO- A. ( g landscape of displays and F-11- Wright-Patterso- n n big-scree- Hill expects The Hill AFB Museum will have Blackbird for display its own SR-7soon, says the museum's director, John McCleary. is McCleary said Hill's SR-7scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks and will come in pieces that will have to be reassembled. The jet will eventually be displayed along with the museum's most recent Stratofortress addition a bomber that was flown into Hill in July. 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