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If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:25 am
by addicted08
Ron and I are in Tucson again and as usual have been out exploring. We went to the Pima Air & Space Museum and even took the bus tour over to the "Boneyard". It was really interesting and the bus tour had a guide that told us all about what we were seeing. First we went into the museum to check out the displays there.
This is the Bumble Bee, it is the smallest functioning airplane ever built.
A display of engines.
This helicopter looks kinda scary to me, I certainly would not have wanted to leave the ground in it!
This one looks a little better. Gotta love the face on it.
There was quite the variety of aircraft in this part of the museum.
This is what the engine looks like in the aircraft.
I think it takes a special kind of crazy to test fly some of these things!
![Image](http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/driehm/Boneyard%20etc/Boneyardetc018_zpsda7eb411.jpg)
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:34 am
by addicted08
Here is some more pics of what we saw...
This plane is so big that it has 3 tires on its landing gear.
And a parachute to slow it down on landing.
There were seveal Seaplanes displayed, this one looked the weirdest.
Bullets.
![Image](http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/driehm/Boneyard%20etc/Boneyardetc038_zps4446d0dc.jpg)
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:59 am
by addicted08
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:13 pm
by Buck
like that Stealth fighter, so stealthy you can't even see it. Great to see y'all in Daytona.
Buck
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:55 pm
by Carl La Fong
I grew up right next to the old Lockheed airstrip, which is now Bob Hope Airport. I can still hear the sounds of the inertia starters and those big old Pratt and Whitney and Curtiss-Wright radials coming to life. Today's jets are fine, but lack the soul of the old warbirds.
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:59 pm
by addicted08
Buck wrote:like that Stealth fighter, so stealthy you can't even see it. Great to see y'all in Daytona.
Buck
Haha! I was hoping folks would catch that pic of the Stealth Fighter. I thought it was funny on the tour! Good to see you and the Mrs. too.
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:04 am
by v8 billy
Thanks Deb for the pictures. Looks like you guys are having a great time.
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:13 pm
by addicted08
These are some small planes used for training sitting next to the big planes.
Here are a couple of big planes.
A row of tail sections at the Boneyard.
More planes.
Here you can see how big the cargo planes are when one sits next to a row of helicoptors.
This plane is being parted out. They take any usable parts off of some planes to fix up others. That's the spirit of recycling!
More planes. The Boneyard is HUGE!
![Image](http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/driehm/Boneyard%20etc/Boneyardetc111_zps4bc92b89.jpg)
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:13 pm
by addicted08
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:40 pm
by addicted08
We have super slow internet that routinely kicks me off so I didn't finish my post about the Air & Space Musuem, I'm gonna try to finish now.
Some of the planes on display on the museum grounds are huge!
It's kind of hard to tell how big they are from these pics so I took one as Ron walked under the nose so you would have something to compare to.
This is one of the stranger looking planes on display.
I liked this one because of the 2 propellers.
This helicoptor can fold up its wings so it doesn't take up as much space.
Another helicoptor.
This was the coolest looking helicoptor on display.
![Image](http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/driehm/Boneyard%20etc/Boneyardetc151_zpsee711df0.jpg)
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:09 pm
by Elvis
Cool Pics, thanks Deb
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:14 am
by V8Bikers
Great pics Deb. Sue and I were in AZ about 10 years ago and visited the boneyard, looks like a lot has been added since.
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:03 pm
by hogv8
So that's where a lot of our tax dollars end up , right there in the bone yard .
Re: If you are ever in Tucson you gotta check this out....
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:55 pm
by Iron Maiden
I think it is time for Bill and I to visit the bone yard again. Thanks for the pics
Sue