looking for some Gear Head Volunteers for a good cause.

The Edwards AFB Flight Test Museum has over 90 aircraft of various type and historical value under their care as well as all sorts of support equipment. We had a great tour of the Museum as part of the FCA-SW Exotic Car Show on base. What I learned was that the budget for the museum is only $1,500. Everything else that they do comes from donations and volunteers.

I mentioned that there were a lot of Gear Heads around that I may be able to round up for a weekend or two to help out and what could we do?

What they need help with is restoring a "start cart" for the SR-71 spy plane (photo below). It's powered by two Buick Wildcat V-8's and they would like to get the cart running and restored. The cart spins the engines before the engines are ignited.

Anyone interested in volunteering for a shift or two evaluating what the cart needs and what we can do to get it running? You get to help out a great cause preserving our aviation history and get to see some real cool stuff in the process. I'm thinking one or two days sometime this Summer. The carts are at the Spy Plane exhibit near the Lockheed plant in the Palmdale are.

They also have 4 fire trucks that they would like to get at least one or two running again but the start cart looks to me the first priority.
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Will do. May be a month or two before I can get a few volunteers together and make it back up there. I have no idea what shape they are in. They actually have 4 carts but none working.

 

I'll ask to have some sent. I haven't seen them myself.

 

I've been neglecting this and need to call the museum director next week.