We spent the whole day at this airplane museum Pima Air & Space Museum. We walked in at 10:30 and left when they closed at 5:00.
The museum is just east of Tucson and is a history of aviation.
Starting with the Wright Brothers and continues into space.
It is about three quarters military aircraft.
Here are the military planes I was most involved with.
F-4 was the attack plane which flew out of Danang when I was there.
They have several iconic B-52’s and they are massive planes.
This is one of the planes we flew on out of Danang, C-121.
I know a lot of these pictures of the same plane, however this may be the last time I get to see one of these.
We also flew on a P-3 nose number 31 and 32.
Ok, last picture of a P-3, I actually did pretty good and only took 200 pictures during the day. We took 3 one hour tours: 1 & 2 were walking tours through hangers and the third was a tram tour outside where many planes were parked.
One of the buildings was build by the 390th Bombardment Groupwho flew B-17’s.
This painting on the wall shows what it was like inside the plane.
The gunner’s position under the plane.
The actual position.
This is 1943 Ford jeep, I had a 1942 one of these during high school. Note the gas tank under the driver’s seat.
I took this picture of the flight deck of a glider to show how minimal they were, thought it is interesting.
It was an interesting day. When we get home and have more bandwidth I plan to send some time on these two websites.