Here photos from my recent visit.

I recently had a chance to visit the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

The Zoo is one of the best air museums in the midwest and well worth a visit.  The museum has expanded to include a nice collection of space related items in addition to its great collection of modern jets and World War 2 era aircraft.  Their web site does a poor job of communicating the size of their collection.

Photos from visit can be found here.

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/Travis/Travis.html

The New England Air Museum is located at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA. The museum is housed in three large display buildings consisting of more than 75,000 square feet (7,000 m²) of exhibit space. In fair weather, the outside storage yard is available for touring as well.

Exhibits include the history of Sikorsky Aircraft, early French aviation featuring the Lafayette Escadrille, a history of air mail, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Flying Mollisons and the 58th Bomb Wing Memorial.

http://www.neam.org/

Photos of P-47 Thunderbolts on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH.

From Wikipedia

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, also known as the Jug, was the largest single-engined fighter of its day, and a vast improvement over the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, its predecessor. It was one of the main United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fighters of World War II, and also served with other Allied air forces. The P-47 was effective in air combat but proved especially adept at ground attack. It had eight .50-caliber machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded the P-47 could weigh up to eight tons. A modern-day counterpart in that role, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, takes its name from the P-47.

Full Wikipedia Entry

Just returned from my annual visit the National Museum of the Air Force previously known as the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.  Every year I travel down and check out the changes to the museum and take the "Behind the Scenes" tour to see what is currently under restoration.  Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting hundreds of photos but here's a quick summary of the changes since last year.

F-22: the museum has replaced it previous F-22 static airframe with an example with actual flight time.

Global Hawk:  The fiberglass model has been replaced with an actual aircraft with combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.

MiG 29: The Fulcrum which had been in storage for several years has been painted and moved the main museum collection.

N1K2-J George:  Which had been in restoration for a *really* long time has been completed and moved to the main museum collection.

Avro VZ-9:  Restoration has begun on this flying saucer research craft.

XC-99:  More pieces of the XC-99 have been moved to the museum.  The XC-99 is the cargo derivative of the massive B-36.  Restoration will take a long time but you can get an idea of the size by looking at what's been moved so far.

Work continues on the B-17 Memphis Belle.  A lot still needs to be done but a lot of progress has been made since the plane got to the museum.  There are plans for it displayed apart from the rest of the collection- maybe in a new lobby or separate building.  Total restoration is expected to take 6-8 more years.

YF-23:  The YF-23 has been re-assembled and is beginning to undergo restoration for display.

XF-90:  The XF-90 which was recently written about in Air & Space Magazine is in storage and awaiting display.  It will not be restored but will be displayed to show the damage that an atomic explosion would do to an aircraft.

MiG 23:  The MiG 23 that was previously displayed in the museum has been removed.  A more complete example has been obtained and will be restored eventually.

That's the quick summary, I'll be posting photos over the next couple of weeks.