Last Thursday, 2/26/15, I visited the Pima Air and Space Museum. This is an AMAZING collection of aircraft, with both indoor and outdoor displays. With 85 or so aircraft indoors, and over 150 outdoors, it makes for an all day delight for the aircraft enthusiast. You can also take a tour of the “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Base. (I arrived too late in the day (noon) and all the spots for the day’s boneyard tours were filled.) I will have to go back next year, and spend more time. As it was, I spent about 3 ½ hours, and took over 100 pictures. Here are a few:
B-17 (like Memphis Belle)
B-36 (a plane like this accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on Albuquerque in 1957, while I lived there...luckily, it didn't detonate)
Tri-tail "Connie" (I flew in one of these as a child, from Amarillo, TX to New York)
F-111 (there were a number of these at Cannon air Base in Clovis, NM, when I was a teenager. My dad was career Air Force, and we often went to Cannon to get groceries, both before, and after his retirement)
A-10 (We see these almost daily over the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range from here in Why...)
SR-71 "Blackbird", still the fastest manned airplane ever made.
B-29, like the ones that dropped the atomic bombs over Japan
F-22 and vintage aircraft flying in formation. I believe this is an F-22 , a P-51, a P-47, and an F-86. It must be difficult to match speeds!
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