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MD -- Suitland -- Paul E Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility:

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1. SIPEG_991006_001.JPG: The next pieces are from the Enola Gay. The tube is the pressurized crawlway which allowed the tailgunner to go from the back of the plane to the front.
2. SIPEG_991006_003.JPG: One of the propellers for the Enola Gay
3. SIPEG_991006_017.JPG: This is the Japanese quick-reference guide showing how to take three special collapsible planes carried in a submarine and construct them. The idea was to use the submarine to get close to areas they couldn't fly to otherwise, construct the planes, do a bomb run on an unsuspecting target, and then ditch the plane and return to the sub.
4. SIPEG_991006_020.JPG: The "Little Stinker" is now the first plane you see when you walk into the Udvar-Hazy museum.
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Wikipedia Description: Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility
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The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility is located in Silver Hill, Maryland. The facility, also known as "Silver Hill" is where the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum restores aircraft, spacecraft, and other artifacts. It was created in the 1950's protect the museum's growing collection of World War II aircraft and provide space to restore them. The facility consists of 32 unassuming metal buildings. 19 of those buildings are devoted to storage of airplanes, spacecraft, engines, and various parts awaiting restoration. One building is devoted to a large restoration shop, and three buildings are for exhibition creation.

The restorers sometimes call on other Smithsonian professionals such as fine art painting restoration experts to consult on aircraft restoration projects. To date, the largest restoration project undertaken by the Garber Center (MISSING) That aircraft was finally delivered to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in 11 tractor trailer loads.

Previously it acted as a storage facility for items which could not be put on public display, however with the completion of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, all items in storage are being moved out of the Garber center.

Approximately 65 space suits Mercury, Apollo, and other U.S. space programs are stored at the facility in environmentally-controlled room.
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1999 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: A week at a timeshare in Gordonsville, VA, two weeks in Tennessee, which included attending my first Fan Fair country music festival, and family visits to North Carolina and Florida.
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