The Ultimate Tour of the New England Air Museum: Spring 2023 Edition! Windsor Locks, Connecticut. 

Wow! Thanks for all the views! I'm not sure what happened with this video, but it was at less than 2,000 views for a full year and then suddenly went up to 45,000!

Very good video! The twin engine bomber next to the P-47 is not an A-20G Havoc. It is an A-26C Invader. The A-26 (redesignated B-26 in 1947) was the only combat aircraft to be used in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. The device in the nose is not a camera but a Norden bombsight.

The "loop antenna" on top of the Electra was an early direction finding apparatus. Mostly used in the 30's, they would have a wheel inside the cockpit to turn the loop. When the loop was at 90 degrees to the transmitting station, the signal would be strongest. They were changed out for other shapes as the technology progressed, such as the teardrop shaped auto direction finders in the 40's.

Thanks for the wonderful video, and a huge thanks for not ruining it with crappy background music. I don't know why some people feel compelled to add annoying background music throughout their videos.

If you want to see your beloved Blackbird, come to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Our Air Zoo is one of the finest air museums in the country. I couldn't tell you. how many times I've seen the Blackbird, but it's always the first plane I head to when we go to the Air Zoo. It is sooo cool to be able to see it up close! Thanks for the tour of your museum, it was fun.

My father was a crewman on the B-29 named "Georgia Peach" with the 58th Bomb Wing, 468th Bomb Group, 793rd Bomb Squadron. My father was the radar operator, the use of radar was another major innovation on the B-29s that aided in bombing missions..

I was there 2 days after the tornado completely obliterated the place in 78 good to see it all back bigger and better than ever.

Excellent tour of the museum! Have been there many times. Your narration is impressive! We try to go on Tuesdays when the docents are there. One time they let us go inside the B29!

I’m so glad you guys got the B-29 restored I have pictures from the late 80s when it was rusting away outside. Well done!

This place is awesome. I recommend that anyone in the area go regardless of your age. Young or old will be amazed.

The Graff zepplin cars for the blimpse were monstrous

Nice video! Everything looks so pristine and clean! Good job! Thanks for sharing!

The unidentified A/C hanging in the rafters is a Heath Parasol LNB-4...25hp!

Nice walk through video. A couple of clarifications. The B29 waist turrets with a bubble canopy are not cameras but the gun sights to operate the remote gun turrets and coordinate with the master gunner in the front of the aircraft. Also the A-26 Rieda Rae has a Norden bomb sight in the nose, not a camera.

You might remember the old Airborne Express Caravelle that was outdoors for many years. It was removed ages ago. I have photos going back to the 90s of various exhibits. So much of the old stuff that was stored outside is now indoors, which is a better situation IMO. My uncle and his family lived in Granby, so Bradley was my home airport. Unfortunately BDL and the CT Airport Authority are pretty hostile to the local aviation enthusiasts, which is pretty ironic considering they have our photographs hanging in their offices in terminal A. I still miss the salad days of the early aughts when you could spot 747s and DC-10s during the holiday season. Great job on this walkthrough from one (former) local to another.

Not an A20, that is aDouglas A26 Invader. Those aircraft were introduced near the end of WW II and a higher powered version also served in Vietnam.

Nice video! Thanks for sharing. I hope to visit this museum in the future. I was able to visit the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH. Hundreds of planes are on display from wright brother's era to recent years. There were also displays for the space program, missile defense systems, etc. It is an amazing museum and I highly recommend it.

My favorite fighter was the F 102 Delta Dagger.

I own five Kaman /Ovation guitars. Very innovative in there day

I've always wanted to go to an aircraft museum, but haven't had the chance. Thank you for this virtual visit. It was awesome.

If you are ever in San Antonio, Tx. Go to Lackland AFB. Near Wilford Hall hospital on public display is an SR 71.

I really want to visit this museum!

This is a really cool museum.

Outstanding tour thanks

A fantastic place. Whenever I visit the area, I go there.

As I kid, I went to visit this place a few times while visiting grandparents over in Simsbury. Also in the 1980ies. I also remember a lot more aircraft being outside and being able to go up in and around them. I think most just got restored and put inside. That’s also a lot more buildings than I remember being there. But that’s probably as my last visit was in 1993. Good to see the place expanding and doing well.

Awesome video. I've got to get back there this Summer. Haven't been in 20 years.

Excellent … Thank you !

Great looking Air Museum, with some unique and beautiful aircraft on display. This is appealing. Never knew it existed. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for posting your excellent video of the New England Air Museum and if I ever get the chance to go to Windsor Locks, Connecticut, I will without a doubt be heading to this excellent museum!

Great Great Video. I'm really enjoying this. My dad was a private pilot. And in World War II, Europe. And I learned how to fly as a young teenager. And I flew between 13 and 15 years of age. I was real good. But the military told me I did not qualify to become a jet fighter pilot. I said okay then. I'll fly anything. They said no. So I did not enlist. However…… Sometimes working for a major television network in Washington DC. Has its advantages. When you do work on the side. And so I got hired on as a video camera operator. At the Air Force Association Conventions. In Washington DC. For a number of years running. And I never went down to the, convention room floor. Were all the exhibits and everything were. I just hung out near the ballroom dining room, stage. As I covered the Awards. When this one year. They asked me if I'd seen the convention floor? I said no I can go down there I'm not military. They said no you can. Your part of the Media Crew. I said call. I'd love to check it out. So it was the end of the day. And I go wandering up to the Boeing exhibit. Where they had a brand-new, F-22 Raptor, by Lockheed. That was just entering service. About 23 years ago. With the brand-new, Boeing. All Glass Cockpit. And I had watched some US military fighter pilots. Flying this, $12 million Boeing, Military Simulator. It looked pretty complicated. And I asked the Boeing guy if I could check it out? He said yeah sure. And so have you flown, F-14's, 15's or, 16s? I told him, Nope. Never. I flew with my dad between the ages of 13 and 15. In Piper Cherokee, 140's, mostly. About 35 years ago. I've never flown since. He said okey-dokey then. Get into the cockpit. He starts pointing out things in the glass cockpit. But I was one step ahead of him. As he goes to point at something. I just immediately said what was. And he asked me again. I flown four Taser 15s? I said no. Nothing like this ever. Okey-dokey then. So you will be continuing a Simulation. The pilot before you was flying. You'll be starting in the air. And you will be able to lineup and take out these targets on the ground. I said cool. I'm ready. So he took the simulation off of hold. And I'm flying an, F-22 Raptor. It was Awesome! I had a gas! I could use a heads up display. Lineup the targets. Release my ordinance. Take them out. And after, 4 of them. I brought the Simulation to an end. And I get out of this rather tight cockpit. And he shakes my hand tells me I did really good. I thanked him for the opportunity. Which was about 10 minutes or so long. And when I turned around. There were like 5 US Military Fighter Pilots. That had been watching me. They observe each other. And they asked me if I had flown, 14s, 15s or, 16? I said nope. Never. This is a first. They asked me why I didn't join the Air Force? I told them I tried. I didn't qualify to fly anything. Even though I Artie knew how to fly. They didn't care. They all told me I missed my calling. I said no. The US Air Force missed a good pilot. They all agreed and shook my hand. We all went in different directions. WOW. What an experience! They told me I fluid really good. I didn't know what I was doing. I was just trying to keep the wings, straight and level. And try to figure out. What I was doing and that cockpit. And how? It was beyond exciting. But it destroyed me. It ruined me. It ruined me. In that. I cannot play any video games at all. I feel like a little child. Microsoft Flight Simulator? Give me a break! You have a little computer joystick. That's not a flight simulator. I've been in the actual, Boeing, F-22 Raptor, Military Flight Simulator. There was nothing like it! It was crazy. The following year. I got to do the same thing with a, A-10 Warthog. By Grumman. And I actually found that much more difficult and strenuous. To fly. It too was wild. But a hell of a lot simpler. But still incredibly nimble. Another wild ride. I was told that was a $3 million simulator. But who's counting? So once you been in the real thing. Everything else is an absolute total joke.. It ruined me. RemyRAD

Oh awesome! Was just talking about taking our son here. Live about 40 mins away

Great video man well narrated too enjoyed it very much thanks i look forward to more ...

Excellent!! It has been awhile since I've been there.. Good job.

Been here a couple of times. Very nice museum!

What an amazing museum, I’d be enthralled for hours / days if I visited. Thanks for producing and sharing this video.

The item in the side of the B-29 is a gun sight, I spent 300 hours in that seat.

My grandpa was on the council there, and a former firefighter at the airport in the 60s

Wow the museum looks outstanding. It has come a long way since my last visit was in 1990. Need to dead head to Bradly from Fort Laudedale for an R.O.N to KBDL from KFLL

I love the slick polished aluminum appearance of the B-29. I’ve always wondered why FiFi doesn’t have this appearance. More of a dull gray appearance

That f100 is gorgious I can't belive all the planes made over the years you can't even find that star fighter just looks fast sitting their

Wow this place looks incredible. Im about an hour & fifteen away and I’ve never been. I’m a massive WWII nerd but I only know the basic info about the planes used. Looks like I need to go on a field trip. Great video!

Very flashy looking museum - when last there in the 1990’s they still had lots of damaged aircraft from the 1979 tornado (am curious what happened to the B-47). In the 1970’s used to see the VS-44 flying boat on the beach in St. Thomas where it had been abandoned - later in the 1990’s visited it at the Bridgeport restoration hanger.

You can still see a Boeing 707 fly as the air force AWACS EC3 is based on the 707.

In August 1980 I spent an evening helping to restore this museum with two friends who were sisters and quite into aviation, and one of the sister's boyfriend, a doctor. The museum was heavily damaged during the Oct 79 Windsor Locks Tornado. I had flown to see some family, flying in from San Francisco after they saw me in Napa, they invited me to stay with them after they flew to JFK to return home to their home in Waterbury (I remember the R/T SFO-JFK airfare was $99, quite a bargain, so $99 plus spending money gave me a nice 2 week visit to Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts). My Connecticut family and hosts got me introduced to an older woman next door who knew her two daughters and I would get along well--they were close to my age, 19 at that time, in their mid 20's and they were the first young women I'd ever met as enthusiastic about flying as I was, since I was hooked on my first PSA Electra flight in '66 and the many other flights even over the pond I was on before visiting Connecticut. So on the day I helped them at the museum, they first took me to Gillette Castle, Mystic Aquarium, and also on a six place Piper single engine ride over Long Island Sound. At the museum, I helped them move heavy Wright Cyclone engines to secure locations--there was still so much clean up for them to do even ten months after the Tornado. Then we walked to the main runway, about fifty feet from it, and watched a Pan Am 747 take off from Bradley Intl Airport, quite loud,, then as we walked back to the museum, we saw two National Guard A10's taxi by, the pilots amused to see us there as dusk turned to night. Then the two sisters and their friend took me out, bought me a drink for helping them, and the friend, a doctor, also gave me an antibiotic for a sore throat that stymied me during the last half of my trip, so I could fly home (on a 747), the next day. It seemed surreal to me. My two best California friends had joined the Army, and got shipped to Germany, and I going to attend my sophomore year in College after that August felt lost, until family and a bit of serendipity gave me a nice trip, new friends, and a story to share about my small footprints in what is now today's New England Air Museum.

i was just there in april 2024 go about one every other year

Awesome video man.😎

I think that is a Nordon bombsight s opposed to a camera in the A-20

Is the F4 phantom still there? I remember there were an A4 Skyhawk and an F8 Crusader outside years ago.

I think the museum has been slowly moving aircraft around or restoring and bringing them in. Last time i was there years ago the Skycrane was outside, but now its inside. Also where the skycrane is now was a different aircraft used by the CT national gaurd (where they misspelled connecticut on the vertical stabilizer/rudder).

This is a video I could make a hundred comments I love old air craft This is kinda like meet your super hearo.

SR-71 in person. Just take the train to New York as the Intrepid Museum has one right on the deck.

AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM is excellent

Military DC-3 was C-47 , DC -4 was C-54 , believe plane hanging from ceiling was A-2 Aeronca ?

At 3:10 - that looks like a Norden bomb sight to me.

Hidden local secrets revealed!!

Isn't the navy Neptune still there?

What happened to the Fairy Gannet?

It's the bombing sight that's in the nose

Tar-hee...

Not a camera, that’s a Norden bombsight!

A26 Invader not an A20

How dare the unworthy A10 take the F14's rightful place!

"Bill-you" ?!!! Seriously?! Bleriot. Repeat after me: "Blair-ee-oh."

Do your homework before making mistakes on aircraft identification. That will make your videos better.