Vintage Flying Museum
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Vintage Flying Museum is a museum in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 202 m. Buck Knob stands 345 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 1.7 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Vintage Flying Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located at Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas. The primary mission of the museum is to preserve America's flying heritage in word, deed and action. Also located at the museum is Greatest Generation Aircraft, the Invader Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force, the Fort Worth Chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association and PGM Aviation.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1993.
Wikidata Q14711398, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 202 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Meacham Field: 0.5 mi
- Woody-Kutch Livestock Commission Company: 1.6 mi
- Thannisch Block Building: 1.6 mi
- Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance: 1.6 mi
- Coliseum: 1.7 mi
- Marine Creek Linear Park North: 0.6 mi
- Marine Creek Linear Park: 0.8 mi
- Lincoln Park: 1.1 mi
- Buck Sansom Park: 1.1 mi
- Rodeo Park: 1.3 mi
- Pearls Dance Hall: 1.6 mi
- Cowtown Coliseum Rodeo: 1.6 mi
- Livestock Exchange Building: 1.7 mi
- Cowtown Cattlepen Maze: 1.7 mi
- Stockyards: 1.7 mi
- Fort Worth Aviation Museum: 0.4 mi
- Fort Worth Stockyards Museum: 1.6 mi
- Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame: 1.7 mi
- National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum and Hall of Fame: 2.1 mi
- Leonard's Museum: 3.7 mi
- Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Water Conservation Garden: 4.9 mi
- Pollinator Pathway: 4.9 mi
- Margery Leonard Courtyard: 5.0 mi
- Fort Worth Botanic Garden Gift Shop: 5.0 mi
- Blue Mound: 9.2 mi
- Mount Donwell: 12.7 mi
- Murray Hill: 14.5 mi
- Town Common: 14.9 mi
- Mayor's Hill: 15.7 mi
- Eagle Mountain Lake Park: 11.2 mi
- Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve: 13.0 mi
- Crystal Canyon Nature Reserve: 15.4 mi
- Bob Jones Nature Center: 17.5 mi
- Fish Creek Forest Preserve: 22.6 mi
- Inspiration Point: 3.6 mi
- Lone Point: 6.8 mi
- Bluff Overlook: 12.8 mi
- Red Bluff: 21.3 mi
- Twin Points Beach: 8.9 mi
- Lynn Creek Park Beach: 22.7 mi
- Elizabethtown: 15.2 mi
- Sowers: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Vintage Flying Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Knob | WNW 286° | 345 m | 24.3 mi |
| Tater Hill | WNW 292° | 343 m | 22.4 mi |
| Chattanooga Hill | WSW 246° | 330 m | 20.2 mi |
| Joe Bell Mountain | WSW 255° | 324 m | 23.0 mi |
| Caddo Peak | S 188° | 303 m | 23.0 mi |
| Brushy Knob | S 189° | 303 m | 25.0 mi |
| Burton Knob | WNW 296° | 278 m | 16.6 mi |
| Brushy Mound | S 179° | 275 m | 17.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:09 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:23 | 20:05 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:50 | 17:28 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 52 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 82 | 86 | 86 | 79 | 69 | 57 | 49 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Worth Meacham FLD Naaf, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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