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Here are a few pictures that I took during a quick visit to The Aviation Museum at Warner-Robins, Georgia. Unfortunately, the museum has a lot of signs barring flash photography indoors so these are shots from the parking lot. Aircraft on Display At The Aviation Museum at Warner-Robins, Georgia

I've been reading a couple of books on the P-40 (Donald Lopez's Into the Teeth of the Tiger and periscopefilm's reprint of the P-40 Warhawk Pilots Flight Operating Manual) and I've run into some new terms: Skidding, Compressibility and Mushing. Apparently aircraft can skid in a turn...

Will do. Il have a few, but I'll have to get 'em off my other PC. In the meantime, the Museum's official website is here: Museum of Aviation - Robins AFB

A short term contracting assignment brought me to Warner-Robins, Georgia, for a few months last year. I had a couple of brief opportunities to visit the Aviation Museum there. I was most impressed. They have a complex of 4 large buildings ringed by warbirds. Definitely worth seeing! A...

Thanks for the responses. It's pretty amazing to see that some are still flying.

I've been reading a lot about the P-40 Warhawk lately and I was wondering about the equipment on restored warbirds. Do pilots of restored Warbirds use modern equipment while flying? If so, what kind of equipment? Radios, GPS, etc. Are there any fundamental safety issues that owners of...