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1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:52 pm
by Tinman
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/ ... %201-2011/



I flew into the Greater Rochester International Airport on Thursday night, for the first time in over four years. Was astounded to see these hanging in a lounge area adjacent to the luggage claim.

Ran back there this monring to snap these pix (I took twelve photos but for some reason, no matter what I did, I could only upload nine of them to Photo Bucket). I'd love to know the story here.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:53 pm
by Tinman
It may have come up before, but has anyone else seen 1/18 on display in a public place?

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:54 pm
by popeye357
Theres a museum in virginia beach that has some displayed in their shop.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:02 pm
by Ferrari250GTO
There's about 10 sitting on top of display cases at the Wings of Freedom museum in Willow Grove, PA. P-38, Huey and FA-18 are what I can remember.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:51 pm
by YT
What a neat find Tinman.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:51 pm
by snake
Makes perfect sense to some aircraft memorabilia at an airport.

Pretty cool to see our favourite 1/18 warbids displayed though. 8)

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:35 pm
by Tinman
The wierd thing is, it's not like I haven't seen those particular "toys" before, but they really did look impressive hanging there in that space. I wish I'd taken some wide angle pictures of the room from outside of it, but there were people sitting in the chairs and I didn't want to make them uncomfortable.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:49 pm
by DocTodd
Great to see that display

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:15 am
by MCalamari
Tinman wrote:It may have come up before, but has anyone else seen 1/18 on display in a public place?
Yes, each summer at the California State Fair one of the counties (I think it may be Santa Barbara Co. -- can't remember) incorporates one or more 21c and BBI 1:18 aircraft into their county display <-- they were promoting the fact that they had an AFB / military presence.

I remember the F-18, F4, and P-51 models. They also had a 1/6 scale jeep or tank one year.

Re: 1/18 in My Local Airport

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:48 pm
by Tinman
That's very cool!