As mentioned before the Arizona, California and Nevada desert areas have huge aircraft boneyards....
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| This little Bumble Bee is in the record books as being the smallest plane ever built... |
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| The BD-5J....painted to represent the markings of the plane used in the Bond film Octopussy...... |
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| Today we will see the weird and the wonderful.... |
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| This F-86E Sabre was built in 1951 and used extensively in the Korean War.... This is a similar Sabre to the one we saw being tested at Duxford a couple of years ago..... |
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| We rode the tram for the boneyard notated tour.... |
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| The Lockheed Constellation....Howard Hughes was the driving force behind the design this of elegant looking triple tailed airliner.... |
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| An early Airforce-One... |
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| As our tour guide said "this must be the ugliest aircraft ever"..... |
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| A C-130 landing at the nearby air force base.... |
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| The gigantic B-52 Bomber.... |
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| Yorkieman was very pleased to discover they had a Spitfire....and we learn it was donated by our Hendon Air Force Museum......he had a great chat with two of the ex military pilots who were volunteer guides....he learnt that this Spitfire had a Griffin engine rather than the Rolls Royce Merlin engine... |
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| We got home from another great day out to find our neighbour had kindly switched off the water main as our outside water hose had sprung a leak....luckily there is a very good hardware store in the nearby small town of Kinney.... This lovely old car was in the car park.... |
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| These yellow "buds" are actually the remains of last years flowers.... This cactus will bloom again late April.... |
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| It was an interesting and full but very good day, well worth a visit....we had hoped to also visit the nearby Military Boneyard and take the tour but there is a 10 day wait list... Beautiful blue sky and will be 94F tomorrow.... Not sure if I mentioned in an earlier post that a Cougar was spotted in the RV Park the day before we arrived.... More soon from The Happy & Warm Campers.... |
Arriving at Heathrow will never be the same again for you! Looks like a good day out, shame you weren't able to do the boneyard tour, amazing that in the middle of the Arizona desert there are enough people to create a 10 day wait! Anoraks!! See you soon A&M xx
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