Frontiers of Flight Museum
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Frontiers of Flight Museum
6911 Lemmon Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75209
Telephone 214.350.3600
Hours
Monday - Saturday 10:00 am -- 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
In 1963, George Haddaway, a noted aviation historian and the publisher of Flight magazine, donated his enormous collection of artifacts and archival materials to The University of Texas. This History of Aviation Collection was moved from Austin to The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in the late 1970's. In 1988, because of problems with public access and space limitations, UTD and Mr. Haddaway forged an agreement with a group of Dallas leaders to make possible the display of part of the collection, in particular most of the physical artifacts at an off-campus site. With the leadership of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, the late William E. Bill Cooper, and Jan Collmer, the Frontiers of Flight Museum was formed in 1988 as a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. The City of Dallas agreed to provide space on the mezzanine level of the main terminal building at Love Field. With donations from corporations, individuals, and foundations, exhibits over 5,500 square feet were made available to the public in June 1990. For several years the museum also sponsored popular air shows at Dallas Love Field, but these were discontinued in the early 2000's as traffic increased at Love Field.
The public's enthusiasm for the Museum and its desire to see more aircraft close-up, along with the increasing attendance, prompted the leadership to embark on an ambitious plan to build the Museum that stands today. A State Transportation Enhancement grant of $7.2 million, along with required matching private gifts of over $2 million enabled construction of the 100,000 square foot Museum, and the new facility opened in June 2004.
Currently, over 30 aircraft and extensive display galleries draw aviation buffs, schools, family members to the museum. Popular collections include early biplanes, historically important military and general aviation aircraft, the World War II exhibit, the extensive history of Southwest Airlines exhibit area, numerous commercial airline artifacts, the iconic Chance Vought V-173 Flying Pancake and the Apollo 7 command module. Visitors can take a chronological walk through the development of human flight from the Leonardo da Vinci parachute to space exploration.
Military, commercial, and general aviation as well as space flight are represented at the Museum. The Museum's working relationship with the History of Aviation Collection at UTD allows access to UTD's world-renowned aviation collections. As an official affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the Frontiers of Flight Museum is able to draw major traveling exhibitions.
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High Flight recited by World War II pilot Frontiers of Flight Museum Love Field Dallas Texas
During my visit to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, I was treated to a recitation of the famous poem High Flight, written in 1941 by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
High Flight with Cpt Mohrle at the Frontiers of Flight Museum
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
A sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr, an American pilot who was born to missionaries in Shanghai, China and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. He went to Britain, flew in a Spitfire squadron, and was killed at the age of nineteen on 11 December 1941 during a training flight from the airfield near Scopwick.
Recited from memory by Cpt Charles D. Mohrle around August 2008 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX in front of the pictures he used to punctuate a poignant discussion of the funny, heroic, sad, and noble service of the men in his squadron, most of whom never came home.
While I believe his performance of High Flight far more moving on this day and therefore worth sharing, I will point out a similar video taken in 2011 when Cpt Mohrle followed his recitation of High Flight with the recitation of a poem he wrote in memorium of those men his squadron lost to war:
The Mosin Minute -- Episode 84: Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field 3-19-11
And now for something completely different...again!
This video is a combination of footage from the Frontiers of Flight Museum from that same day we visited the Collings Foundation aircraft display at Love Field. When we first got there, we just missed the planes taking off to give their early morning rides. Thankfully, I got that footage on film we seldom get to see it happen (although I missed the landing, dag-gummit!). So while they were giving their rides, we toured the museum, because the admission for that day covered seeing the planes AND getting into the museum.
Many airports have their own museums, but this one is particularly good for it's kind...and it's almost worth seeing by itself. They have a collection of aircraft, which seems to be growing from when I first visited the place years ago. Now they have an F-16 figher, an old Huey helicopter, the Apollo 7 capsule and some items from that rocket launch, a replica Wright Brothers plane, some old static fighters, an old pre WW2 trainer, etc. And while we didn't get to try any of them out, this museum apparently has a few simulators you can test out, more than I've seen anywhere else.
After we did a quick tour of one half of the building, we went outside, checked the planes out, then went to go see a Willis Jeep on display, decked out in all it's WW2 splendor. We also checked out the Dallas Amateur Radio Club's portable ham shack for their club station W5FC, which was quite an interesting tour (for those of us that have an amateur license, like I do). I didn't have time to put all that into this video, but it was kinda nice to see a natural fit to these kinds of historic events. Amateur (or ham) radio was one of my main hobbies for many years, and I used to be very active until the last couple of years...I tend to go in and out of the hobby, when time permits.
Afterwards, we went back into the museum to check out the remaining exhibits. This place has a decent amount of artifacts as well, covering the entire breadth of aeronautical flight. We even got to see a G.I. Joe display from one of the local residents, along with a series of authors that had some interesting books about aeronautical history (civilian and military). All in all, it was a pretty good day to visit a museum.
Alright, I know everyone wants to see some gun vids. I'll be working on those in the next few days, so I hope to have some more vids (and movies) up soon. Stay tuned!
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WWII veteran,Charles Mohrle, volunteers at Frontiers of Flight Museum
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The Museum of Biblical Art
7500 Park Lane
Dallas, Texas 75225
Telephone 214.368.4622
Hours
Monday Closed
Tuesday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Established in 1967, named the Museum of Biblical Art in 1999, the MBA, is an art museum in Dallas, Texas that is unlike any museum in the world. It has a simple mission: To display art with a Biblical theme. Nothing of its size exists in the United States, making it a treasure trove for art enthusiasts. Diverse types of art are exhibited including bronze sculpture installations, drawings, fine prints, and oil paintings. Specialized galleries have been created for Biblical Archaeology, Jewish Art, Religious Architecture, Israeli Art, African American Art and Hispanic Art.
The Museum is a cultural crossroads, utilizing art for tolerance and understanding reflected in the various archaeological exhibits and decorative art from Israel and the Holy Land. The MBA's vision encompasses the classical arts with a call to beauty which emphasizes the Biblical figurative art illustrating the narratives of the Bible and a call to the study of classical Greco-Roman art, archaeology and architecture.
Featured Artists Include: John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Ben Shahn, Paolo Verenese, Francesco Guardi, Agam, Kathe Köllwitz, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Emil Nolde, James Tissot, Oskar Kokoschka, Bernard Buffet, Andy Warhol, Everett Shinn, John Marin, and many more.
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Women Pilots in World War II Frontiers of Flight Museum
Captain Charles D. Mohrle 90 years of age talks about Women pilots in World War II. The WAAF ( Women's Auxiliary Air Force ) or ( Women's Army Air Force ) and the WASP ( Women Airforce Service Pilots ). Captain Mohrle volunteers at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas Texas.
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