I've probably driven by the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos 50 times in the last 6-7 years. It's visible from the 101 but I never managed to get myself up there until today.
The museum contains a good collection of older aircraft, engines, propellers, and other static displays in a relatively small space. In fact, I was a bit surprised at how much they were able to pack in the place.
While there are many displays that caught my attention for one reason or another, the partial 747 outside was just damned cool. Where else can you climb into the cockpit of a 747 and look around?
Amusingly, the emergency exit doors still work. You're not supposed to open them, but that's not obvious until you've already done so (assuming you're outside the aircraft).
Heh. Oh, well. No alarms went off. :-)
More pictures are available in my Hiller Aviation Museum set on Flickr.
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Posted by jzawodn at October 14, 2006 10:46 PM
It sounds a lot like the helicopter museum in Dothan, Alabama. They too have an incredible amout of stuff packed into there small building.
Wow, some great photographs! Especially the one with the opened emergency exit doors... :-)
Hi,
Ever been to Castle Air Musuem ?
I live near there and I was stationed at Castle when it was still a Air Force base with SAC.
Take care,
Doug Woodall
SpywareBiz.com
That's a great way to put an airplane on static display. Of course you can't chop up a particular historic aircraft, but chopping off a few relevant bits for people to actually look at is more interesting than having fewer entire airplanes in the same amount of space.
As an airforce junkie, I am a fan of aviation. Great bunch of photographs. Do show us more if you get them.
I am aviation fan as well, although I am a little afraid of flying. But planes are my life. Great photos!
