February 22, 2018 Thursday – Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson
2018 Southern Arizona and Astronomy
I drive over to the Pima Air & Space Museum and spend several hours there on my last day in Tucson before I return home tomorrow. I took the tram tour last year when I visited Pima, and I take it again, since it is the most efficient way to see the huge number of aircraft on display outside. I check out Hanger 5, which has new aircraft displayed: a Spitfire, a PBY/Canso amphibian and a Mitchell bomber.
The other hangers have much the same displays, but I experience them again in a new way, since I take far fewer photos than I did last year. This gives me lots of time to delve a bit deeper into the more interesting aircraft and skip others without feeling I’m missing something. I have a nice lunch in the cafeteria before driving back to the hotel in the afternoon.
My online gallery contains photos taken in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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Solar panels on the parking lot roofs -
Closeup of an electrical box for the solar panels -
Wiring and electrical boxes for the solar panels -
A white Model S 90D parked beside my Model S75D under the solar canopy -
Diane Bell, Matt Watson and Reg Dunkley in front of the Space Shuttle booster and Pima Air Museum sign -
Reg Dunkley and Matt Watson in front of the Space Shuttle booster rocket with the infamous Morton Thiokol o-rings -
Joe’s selfie at the Pima Air Museum -
Bell UH-1C *UH-1M) Iroquois (Huey) helicopter -
Engine in the Bell UH-1C (UH-1M) Iroquois (Huey) -
McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II -
McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II -
Canadair Sabre Mk. V -
Lockheed Model 10A Electra -
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird -
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird -
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird engine -
Consolidated B-24J ‘Liberator’ -
Consolidated B-24J ‘Liberator’ -
Looking up inside the bomb bay of the Consolidated B-24J ‘Liberator’ -
Inside the bomb bay of the Consolidated B-24J ‘Liberator’ -
Consolidated B-24J ‘Liberator’ -
McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F/A 18A Hornet figher bomber -
Boeing B-52D Stratofortress bomber -
Vickers 744 Viscount airliner -
Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-R -
Douglas VC-118A -
Convair B-36 Peacemaker -
Convair B-36 Peacemaker -
Convair B-36 Peacemaker -
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress bomber -
Landing gear of Boeing B-52G Stratofortress bomber -
Sikorsky CH-54A Tarhe (Skycrane) heavy lift helicopter -
Fairey AEW.3 Gannet -
Sepecat Jaguar GR.1 fighter-bomber -
Boeing B-17 bomber -
Bomb bay -
Front guns and gunner -
Cockpit and top gunner -
Side gunner & inside fuselage -
B-17 bomber -
Boeing 787 Dreamliner nose-on -
Wing against the Sun -
Rolls Royce engine -
Rolls Royce engine -
Petal engine cowling of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -
Landing gear -
Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner -
Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner -
Airline cabin service memorabilia -
Rationing memorabilia -
Joe inside a Boeing 720B cockpit simulator -
The Crescent Moon between three blades of the Sikorsky CH-54A helicopter -
Sikorsky CH-54A heavy lift transport helicopter -
Engine, blades and winches of a Sikorsky CH-54A heavy lift transport helicopter -
Gunner’s nacel beside the M-25 Mitchell -
Sighting scope on a B-25 Mitchell bomber -
Engine from a SR-71 Blackbird -
McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F/a-18A Hornet figher bomber -
Andrew Schoultz Spy Tiger, 2012 – acrylic on Lockheed VC-140 Jetstar -
Budd RB-1 Conestoga Transport -
Douglas DC-10 engines with Orbis markings -
Douglas DC-10 with Orbis markings -
Douglas A-24B Banshee -
Consolidated Model 28-5AMC Canso A (PBY-5A Catalina) -
Consolidated Model 28-5AMC Canso A (PBY-5A Catalina) -
Consolidated Model 28-5AMC Canso A (PBY-5A Catalina) -
Spitfire in the foreground of Hanger 5 -
Spitfire -
Supermarine Spitfire FR. XIVe & Rolls-Royce Griffon 65 engine -
Rolls-Royce Griffon 65 engine -
Hawker Hurricane -
Hawker Hurricane tail markings -
Douglas A-24B Banshee -
Lockheed VC-121A -
Jacobs J-755 Radial Engine, 1943 -
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-28 Fulcrum A Interceptor -
Avro AEW Mk 3 Shackelton airborne early warning -
Boeing VC-137B VIP Transport ‘Freedom One’ -
ITEK KA-80 optical bar camera -
Grumman F-14A Tomcat -
Hughes OH-5A Cayuse helicopter -
Bede BD-5J “Microjet” -
Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial -
Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial -
Phoenix Mars Lander scale model -
Mercury capsule -
X-Plane
