When I was there I took the bus tour twice... Once so I could sit on one
side of the bus and the second time so I could sit on the other side...
My adventures around the scrap yards and shooting from the fence where
called to abrupt halt by the approach of a very heavily armed individual who
managed with just his appearance to intimidate me. That and some strange
puffs of dust on a large sand hill that kept occurring after a strange crack
sound. The result point taken my silver rental car was nothing but tire
tracks. The next time I go there I am going to hire a pilot so I can do
some air to ground stuff...
Andrew
"Ron Monroe" wrote in message
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Forget the daring and adventurous, unless you know someone. You have the
option of a guided tour, on a bus, with closed dirty windows that don't
open. You will follow a closed predetermined cours, and, if the bus is
full,
you will only be able to shoot from one side of the bus. Your other
option:
Buy the book at the Pima museum that has excellent pictures.
Ron
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How terrible sad...
When I was in Tucson even on the bus tour the eeriness of the place was
striking... Even sadder was the almost cavalier way in which "chunks"
of
aircraft where scattered about the scrappers yards... Despite that
strange feeling of sadness that the place seems to evoke I am certainly
going to return to it. Perhaps the next time I will be a little perhaps
more daring and adventurous in my explorations. I definitely would like
to do an aerial photo shoot of the place...
Andrew-S
"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
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"Andrew-S" I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com
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When I went to Tucson a couple of year ago, I was amazed that I didn't
any of these in the Boneyards. There was several aircraft that where
a little older. But apart from the one at the Pima there wasn't any
B58 Hustlers. I suppose with all that high quality non space age
metal the B58 was a good target for melting and scrapping. As such
the scrappers must have managed to do their evil deeds 20 years
earlier... In fairness the Hustler was from an era when it was more
fashionable to scrap it and melt it than preserve it... Personally it
was always one of my Favorites from that era. To me it always looked
mean and fast, yet with all those streamlined polished surfaces also
strangely elegant.
There were a small number at MASDC when I visited in the late '70s, but
understand they disappeared shortly thereafter.
Bob ^,,^