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    Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field

    An interesting tour for all aviation enthusiast ...

    http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=5400

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    For anyone who hasn't been there, I highly recommend it. The hanger in my opionion is a hidden gem loaded with fantastic aircraft. If you go.........bring your tripod. Also, a good place to shoot 13L arrivals (if you have a long lens).

    Here are a few I took a while back:





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    is it open to the public?

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    Yes it is - Tuesdays (I think) and Saturdays. No admission charge, just walk on in. Friendly volunteers who will talk to you all day if you want. I've been there many times.

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    when we went there I was able to negotiate opening their P-2 to get interior pictures in exchange for rotating their props. If you have a few balls and some help it's worth a shot!
    Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

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    I didn't even have to ask - one time I was there, and talking with a couple of volunteers about the plane, and they just told me to climb on in. But then, I don't have your freakishly white skin.

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    Great article. Would like to visit this summer and check out the A-4. One of my all time favorites. Last time I was there was back in the late 80's early 90's. At the time, my buddy was in the CG reserves and we had a chance to take a tour and sit inside one of the helos (Dolphin I believe).

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    Quote Originally Posted by moose135 View Post
    I didn't even have to ask - one time I was there, and talking with a couple of volunteers about the plane, and they just told me to climb on in. But then, I don't have your freakishly white skin.
    better than being a "Middle-Eastern man [terrorist] pointing a camera at airplanes"


    but alas, I am one too. FML.

    Oh, and by the way...I have an Indian friend and she tells me she WISHES she had a TAN complexion as nice as mine. So ha!
    Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gpalz1 View Post
    Last time I was there was back in the late 80's early 90's. At the time, my buddy was in the CG reserves and we had a chance to take a tour and sit inside one of the helos (Dolphin I believe).
    Yup The Dolphin when it was Air Station Brooklyn.
    Does anyone remember the BIG BLUE HANGAR that was at Floyd? Along Flatbush just north of the Tower/Visitors Center. They used
    to work on the old guys in there back in the 90s. Not sure why it was torn down.

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    Some 360 panoramas from the hangar

    http://www.mannyphoto.com/panoramas/...arb/index.html
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