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.
These are some of the original beams that were then covered with saguaro cactus internal wood ribs and then adobe.
Tucson got cold a few years ago and killed many Saguaro’s
Here is some more pictures of cactus.
Hank and I thought it was a warm day but we have a great time.
This military action just before World War I was the first time the U.S. Army used a mechanized military force. They had four wheel drive vehicles and airplanes.
Look the way the landing gear was attached to the airplane.
When we got up this morning I found this small brown bear in our campsite.
Hank gets groomed every 6 weeks, it’s been 14 weeks and we still have another 4 to 5 weeks to go.
This is his normal mid grooming look. We where at Henskin Lakes with Brian in July.
This is shortly after a grooming, notice the size of his paws. I like his new look, Jean is looking forward to a grooming.
We have nice view over the valley, our motorhome is in the center.
This is flower about the size of a quarter.
These dwellings are half way up a 400 foot rock face.
There were three volunteers at the dwellings telling the story of the people who lived here.
This is the view when we arrived.
Campsite photos, these are really large sites and we have the highest one in the park. Yes it’s a great view.
Smokey Bear was a cub when he was found clinging to a tree after a fire had burned through the forest near Capitan, NM. He was taken to a vet and than became the mascot for preventing forest fires. Hank was not allowed in the museum so Jean and I took turns caring for Hank and looking at the displays.
Smokey was laid to rest here.
Here are a couple of pictures I took at Fort Stanton.
Housing on officer’s row.
The area has an active group of people supporting the history of this fort. This is one of several people working around the fort and answering people’s questions.