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Old August 14th 05, 05:53 AM
G. Sylvester
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I went to the Pima museum today. Wow. Basically they have a bunch
of clean airplanes kept in hangers and a TON of ones outside
that are basically left to collect dust. You can't go into the
planes outside but you can walk around and polk your head into any
opening or walk up and knock on wings of the wildest
experimental / one-off / concept airplanes from B52's to
Raytheon Starships (stuck in the back corner) to Air Force 1's
to F15's to stuff I couldn't dream up much less would even
could begin to think it could fly. they had non-flyable but
beautifully restored B17, B24, B25, B29 and others.

Overall, it is some amazing collection. I didn't have enough
time as you can easily spend a full day there not including
AMRAC (whatever the acronym is). I think the Museum of Flight
is better in some ways but not many aviation museums come
close to this one. I can't wait to go back.

As a side note, the Desert Museum is also excellent.

Gerald


 




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