American Wings Air Museum

This afternoon, my dad and I went to visit the American Wings Air Museum at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport.

Taylorcraft L-2
Aeronca L-3
Homebuilt Flying Wing Glider
Inside Of A Radar Trailer
Overhauled Flat-6 Lycoming Or Continental
STECO Biplane
STECO Car
Early 1950's Flight Simulator
Flight Sim Panel
Convair C-131 Samaritan Cockpit
Overhead Panel In The C-131
Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon
Naval Aircraft Factory N3N "Yellow Peril". Fun Fact: these biplane trainers, first delivered to the Navy in 1935, were retired in 1961.
The main focus of the museum is Grumman OV-1 Mohawks.
Mohawk Cockpit
Probably the coolest thing at the museum was this Piper L-4B, equipped on top with a Brodie Rig. The Brodie Rig was basically a cable stretched between the bow and stern of a Landing Ship, and hung out over the side. To take off, a pilot shoved the throttle forward, waited until he was at the end of the cable, and bulled a handle in the cockpit, which released the hook, and off he went. To "land", a pilot would just snag the cradle with the hook and a friction line would slow the plane down.
Cockpit of the L-4B
More Mohawks outside the museum
This OV-1A, when used at the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, used to have auxiliary J-47 jet engines.
Sikorsky UH-34
This was one of the coolest things out there, although it wasn't part of the museum. I'd read about this airplane on the intraweb, but had forgotten about it. It's a TBM Avenger, which the guy who owns it is going to restore it after he restores his Curtiss A-25 Shrike (Army version of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver).

Art

I've never been very interested in art, and for the most part, I'm indifferent about art museums. I don't hate 'em, I don't love 'em. I'm just kind of "meh". On Tuesday, I chaperoned a group of Russian exchange students to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I took pictures of a few paintings and stuff that caught my eye. Unfortunately, there is no flash photography, and my camera kind of sucks. Also, I neglected to write down the actual titles and artists of these paintings.

For some reason, this painting just screams Germany to me, but I don't know why. I also thin the artist was Asian.
This painting reminds me of the Bob Ross thing on Family Guy. It's hard to see, but in the lower mid to center right of the painting, there's kind little tunnel.
Tatra T87.
(Unlike my brother, I don't feel dirty at all using Wikipedia as a source.)
Old Evenrude, I think.
They have a new exhibition of "San Francisco Psychadelic". One of the galleries is of photographs, and the other is of concert posters.
This is by far my favorite painting in the museum."Frank", by Chuck Close. I really like this guy's paintings, and the details are almost unbelievable. If you haven't been to either the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, or the Walker Art Center to see one of his other big paintings, "Big Self Portrait", you need to. Plus, aside from gas money, going to the MIA is absolutely free.