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Topic: Naval Aviation Museum: Apollo CM boilerplate
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SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 2824
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-18-2012 11:23 PM
   
Shot images today of this rusting CM boilerplate sitting in a remote parking lot adjacent to the National Naval Aviation Museum. Evidently its been in that general vicinity for years. Cannot locate an affiliated entry in A Field Guide to American Spacecraft so perhaps another mystery to solve if anyone is so inclined. Have a couple more weeks prior to departing Naval Air Station Pensacola so if additional images are required to assist drop me a note.  
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APG85
Member Posts: 213
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 08-19-2012 07:30 AM
Neat! I've been to the museum several times and I have never noticed it. Where in the parking lot is it (relative to the main entrance to the building)? I'd like to check it out the next time I go... |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 2824
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-2012 08:05 AM
Courtesy Google: |
APG85
Member Posts: 213
From:
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 08-19-2012 01:00 PM
Thanks for the picture. It's really been stuck out of the way. I'll look for it next time I'm at the museum... |
PeterO
Member Posts: 150
From: Rochester, NH
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-19-2012 05:24 PM
The boilerplate was placed in the parking lot in 2004. It is not there in the Google Earth image dated March 30, 2004, and it appears in the next image, dated Dec 30, 2004. |
mikej
Member Posts: 326
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-20-2012 08:13 PM
I photographed this boilerplate during my visits to the museum during the summers of 2004 and 2005.In June 2004, it was located in a different part of the parking lot (apparently the concrete slab N/NE of its current location, the other side of those three blobs of trees). It was moved to its current location by June 2005. I emailed the museum after my 2004 visit in hopes of getting additional information about it. I received a reply from the aircraft collections manager, who was only able to give me a generic description of what a boilerplate was. However, he did say that they received it from Eglin AFB in 1998. |
p51
Member Posts: 430
From: Olympia, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-29-2012 05:46 PM
Thanks for posting this, I'll be passing through the area next month. I was on the fence on going to the museum (hadn't been there since the late 90s) but this was the extra push to get me to go... |
APG85
Member Posts: 213
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 09-09-2012 11:32 AM
A few shots I took yesterday. Looks a little neglected. Not sure why it's off in a far part of the parking lot... 
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APG85
Member Posts: 213
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 09-09-2012 12:00 PM
 
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