TORNADO HITS USAF MUSEUM RESTORATION HANGAR - 28 FEB 2024 (NMUSAF) 

Understood!

Equipment and displays may or may not be able to be replaced. But people cannot. Thank our Lord Jesus Christ that it wasn’t much worse.

@@crabbymilton390 can we leave the Lord out of this? You’re so quick to thank the Lord for saving the people how about the tornado that he created? We thanking him for that too.

@@redeyedmongoose2963 The fact that anything good happens in our sinful lives is because of God’s grace.

@@crabbymilton390 stop with the god stuff. ITS OFFENSIVE.

Did you know that the actress Swoosie Kurtz was named after that B17? Her father was Frank Kurtz who'd flown "The Swoose" during the war and is also who was responsible for saving it in 1949 when it was scheduled to be scrapped, he persuaded the city father's of Los Angeles to accept it to be put on display, after 3 years of it sitting around without them finding a suitable place for it to be displayed it was donated to the Smithsonian where it sat around for years when it was decided to trade it for another B17 with the Air Force Museum where it has been since. Kurtz was Gen George Brett's personal pilot during the war when Brett used it as his personal transport, it flew around top brass and dignitaries including a young Congressman and active duty Navy Lt Commander named Lyndon B Johnson. Before that it was one of the first aircraft in the Pacific to fight against the Japanese having been in the Phillipines when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

@@dukecraig2402 Did you know that Kurtz wrote a book about his experiences in a B-17 including the Swoose? In fact he detailed looking out of his window and seeing the Vietnamese attacking Japanese in what would be the start of the vietnam war. The book is called "Queens Die Proudly". It's a fantastic book about his Army Air Corps career and what he had seen. He describes how they stuck guns out the front fresh air vents under the nose to ward off attacks ect ect. "And even when on fire or rolling over into a dive they do so gracefully, like a Queen. And Queens die proudly." - B-17 Cpt. Frank Kurtz

A tornado went through the SAC museum when it was at the outskirts of Offutt AFB in Bel Aire, Nebraska also, stood their B-36 on end enough to bend the fuselage behind the wing.

@@whalesong999 I was a volunteer docent there when the Mrs. and I were station there from 86 - 91.

Yup...

Crap. I was thinking same thing.

All the stuff outside was slated to be scrapped anyway. So no real damage done to aircraft. Not sure about the stuff inside the hanger which from what I’ve seen is supposedly the XB-42 and 43. And looks to be an F-15 not sure if it’s the A that came out of the Cold War Gallery

Recreating that bathtub gun emplacement from scratch must have been quite a task.

I’m hoping they’ll put that bathtub turret on display with the Swoose I know it won’t go on it but they could still display it next to it.

You are welcome! Yes, as one who was involved in the field museum program for a number of years, the resources were always strained... or maybe we were all so gung-ho we just strained them!

You are always welcome!

The planes outside were to be scrapped anyway, not sure if any aircraft inside were damaged tho

Yes, I have many good memories of visits to the museum over the years. Hey, thanks for watching and commenting.

Thankfully the stuff outside we’re slated to be scrapped, I’m not sure of the condition of the stuff inside this particular hanger tho

No, quite rare. But perhaps things are changing now with the weather to the point where this could be a more common occurrence in the Midwest in "wintertime."

Yes. Peak tornado season is March through June but are possible year round.

I have seen tornadoes in the Ohio Valley in January.

Same as the T-33 and A-26. All stripped of parts and going to be scrapped

From pictures I’ve seen and people saying, it has the XB-42 and -43 along with a F-15 I’m gonna assume the A that came out of the Cold War gallery maybe, it looked painted so it couldn’t have been the Streak Eagle

Wow! Idaho to Virginia! I'm glad to hear from you, and welcome back to the channel.

They are slated to be scrapped, so damage didn’t really do much to them.

The text says Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Dayton, Ohio - Home of the Wright brothers - hence the first part of the base's name.

39°46'39.71"N 84° 5'39.28"W You can see the Shooting Star and the F-104 on the tarmac

@@airailimages The Museum is on a corner of Old Wright Field (Now Area B of WPAFB) and open to the public on a daily basis. The damaged restoration hangars are about a quarter mile away and not open for visiting. WPAFB is near Dayton in South Western Ohio.

The storm damage is in the restoration hangar area; I believe the public museum is still fine.

@@airailimages Museum is open as usual. The main museum buildings and their exhibits were not affected by the tornado. I was actually at the museum the morning after the storm.

You can just make out the A-26 on the right side of the screen in a couple of shots

@@aztec0112 I see it now, thanks.

The wings of the F-104 were used on the restoration of the Starfighter which is mounted on the pole out front of the museum. The rest of the airframes outside were slated to be disposed of as scrap. My main concern is for a F-15 (Streak Eagle?) which in some photos is seen in the hangar itself.

@@BigTrain175 Thanks for the info.

@@BigTrain175I think that’s the A from the Cold War gallery, I know which pics your talking about and to me it looks painted and not “naked” like the streak is now

Most of the museum aircraft being stored are in the former R&D and Presidential hangars which were not hit by the tornado.

From pics it looks that atleast the XB-42 and -43 along with a F-15 are in that hanger

What would that be?

@@Peace2U-ec6es Consider the drive by some (among other drives) to erase our national history of certain honorable people and ideals, for example the destruction and replacement of statues.

@@Peace2U-ec6es I answered, but someone was triggered and removed my answer. Truth is indeed treason in the Empire of Lies.

No it's not. Spring came early to Dayton, Ohio. This is awful to see.

When you get 70 + deg in Feb you are just asking for bad weather to follow.

March and April are the usual tornado months. Some years it comes earlier, some later. Isolated tornadoes can happen any time of the year though.

We had a January tornado, during a snow storm up near Cleveland a number of years back (2008). They aren't common, but not unheard of

​@@aztec0112 Same thing in northwestern PA back in 1966 or '67. On the way to my girlfriend's house I saw a cow impaled on a fence post.

Yes.

Highly doubt the aircraft would be scrapped

These 3 were already scheduled to be scrapped. Nothing the museum was going to use was damaged.

What was shown was hulks of several aircraft stripped of usable parts and slated for disposal even before the storm.

They have said no.

This is the restoration hangar area, across the field from the public museum.

There was no commentary audio, but we have a text description on the video page.

There was a whole F-15 in that hangar. Hopefully not seriously damaged.

The SU-27 is on display in the Cold War gallery (next to the MIG-29) and was not damaged. Neither was the main museum buildings and exhibits.

Exactly.

There are also multiple restored aircraft on display outside the main museum buildings, including a C-17, KC-135, C-130, and an A-10. Google Maps suggest that the F104, A26, and T33 were at one end of the row of restoration hangers while a HU-16 and Lockheed 10A(?) are outside on the other end of the hanger row.

@@mikemilner8080 I will take the invader if they dont want it

@@mikemilner8080 Not a HU-16. It is a Northup YC-125 Raider. Not sure if it is still there.