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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Barn Army Alert .............
Urgent
Need: Barn Army Pilots
In case of necessity,
I've just called dibs on these.
I got to go out there a couple of years ago... lots emptier now but they have preserved some classics in rows along the tour bus route- the only way you can go through now. The Pima Air & Space Museum (http://www.pimaair.org/) down the road is a great several-day collection where you can walk right up and touch to a load of history and a stop any aviation buff should go to. I'd go again in a heartbeat.
They very well may be there. Tons of planes all around Davis Monthon. Too many to see in just a couple of days. The Pima Air museum had several flying boats years ago.
Jim, there's one on a stand in the courtyard of the Space & Aviation Museum in Balboa Park in San Diego. They built them there. If you look over at North Island across the bay, you can see the ramps from which they were launched and recovered.
Thanks Casca It's just nostalgia. Back in the second half of the fifties I was in a FASRON outfit in Bermuda for two years, where we serviced two flying boat outfits. Ah those happy and sh*tty days of yesteryear.
My folks retired in Green Valley, south of Tucson. Before a series of strokes took Dad Anthony, he and I visited the Pima Air Museum at Davis-Monthan. Poppo drove a Consolidated B-24 in the Pacific theater. We got to get up close and personal with one out in field. A docent noticed us talking, pointing and laughing. He asked Dad if he wanted to get inside...."Hell NO! I spent too damn many hours cooped up in that cramped cockpit!" and he laughed, his old blue eyes twinkling.
Ahhhhhhhh! The B-47, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly.
ReplyDeleteDibs on the radar directed gun position!!
Brigadier Major Mike
DONE!
ReplyDeleteMy good King, please include a "NSFW" when you link these things.
ReplyDeleteI saw that website awhile back. Sportin some serious wood here boss.
ReplyDeleteTim
I got to go out there a couple of years ago... lots emptier now but they have preserved some classics in rows along the tour bus route- the only way you can go through now.
ReplyDeleteThe Pima Air & Space Museum (http://www.pimaair.org/) down the road is a great several-day collection where you can walk right up and touch to a load of history and a stop any aviation buff should go to.
I'd go again in a heartbeat.
From back when the USA was serious about air power...
ReplyDeleteGreat link! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSeeing all those pictures makes me wonder, where did all the old flying boats like the P5M go to die?
ReplyDeleteThey very well may be there. Tons of planes all around Davis Monthon. Too many to see in just a couple of days. The Pima Air museum had several flying boats years ago.
ReplyDeleteJim, there's one on a stand in the courtyard of the Space & Aviation Museum in Balboa Park in San Diego. They built them there. If you look over at North Island across the bay, you can see the ramps from which they were launched and recovered.
ReplyDeleteCasca
Thanks Casca
ReplyDeleteIt's just nostalgia.
Back in the second half of the fifties I was in a FASRON outfit in Bermuda for two years, where we serviced two flying boat outfits.
Ah those happy and sh*tty days of yesteryear.
A-3 Skywarrior Wow! That brings back some memories. Nothing scarier than standing @ the foul line when one of those beasts catches the wire.....
ReplyDeleteDamn you guys are old. Flying boats? Even P-2 Neptunes were antiques when I was flying.
ReplyDeleteTim
Is it wrong that the rocket pods on the Douglas A-1 Skyraider gave me a slight woody?
ReplyDeleteAll I could think of was strafing the OWS rally...
My folks retired in Green Valley, south of Tucson. Before a series of strokes took Dad Anthony, he and I visited the Pima Air Museum at Davis-Monthan. Poppo drove a Consolidated B-24 in the Pacific theater. We got to get up close and personal with one out in field. A docent noticed us talking, pointing and laughing. He asked Dad if he wanted to get inside...."Hell NO! I spent too damn many hours cooped up in that cramped cockpit!" and he laughed, his old blue eyes twinkling.
ReplyDeleteSure do miss that ol' South Carolinian gentleman.
-Sven in Colorado