Pima Air and Space Pics

Rossi Knives

Rossi Knives

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Hey Everybody,



Recently went to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. I love history and aircraft. If you do too, check it out. The tourguides are great and I really enjoyed myself. It didn't hurt that I tailgated it with a In and Out Burger double-double with onions and some malt liquor.



Worlds smallest plane.

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SR-71: One of my favorite things EVER.

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Engine from same.

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Damn, Son.

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We were getting buzzed by A-10s all day. Glad I am not a tank

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Cool Nose art.

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Harsh. From an Apache, I think.

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Legit.

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This gentleman in the hat was a WWII bomber pilot. Told some great stories.

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Excellent photos!

The aircraft carrying the swasticas is a Hawker Hurricane, I googled it to check.


http://www.pimaair.org/collection-detail.php?cid=136

The underside is painted in the early scheme of half black, half white. This was phased out in favour of sky blue during the course of the Battle of Britain.
Many pilots actually preferred the Hurricane over the faster and more glamorous Spitfire as it could take more punishment and, crucially, provided a more stable gun platform.
 
^Cool!

I wish I could of retained all of the great facts I heard during the tour. Great to know I can check their website as a resource.
 
The B-52 with the marks on it.....aren't those for X-15 flights?

(They look like X-15s...)

Thanks for the pics!
 
Rossi Knives said:
This represents X-1 flights.

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Glad you made it to the Air Museum and recorded a litlle aviation history for us but I know you meant to say X-15 flights. ;)

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She is one of only 3 B-52As built and was used initially for contractor testing by Boeing. In November of 1958, 52-003 was modified to NB-52A standard and used as a "mother ship" for the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft. First flight with X-15 was on 19 March 1959, with the first launch on 8 June 1959. The NB-52A, named "The High and Mighty One" carried the X-15 on 93 of the program's 199 flights. In October of 1969, 52-003 was retired to storage at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona.

She was replaced by NB-52B number 52-0008, known to us NASAns as "Balls 8" in support of NASA research until she was retired on 17 December 2004, making Balls 8 the oldest flying B-52B.

Balls 8 sits at the north entrance to Edwards AFB and is covered with hundreds of different test mission tags

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I'll snag some shots this weekend perhaps.



j
 
Did you make it to the Titan Missile Museum?
 
Oops. Yeah. X-15.

I tried to make it to the missle museum but by the time the tram tour was over the place was closed.

Oh well, guess i'll have to go back!

-Nick
 
Great muesum, been there a couple of times. The other side of the fence is really cool (Davis-Monthom(?) airbase) too. It is really fun to walk around all of the retired aircraft and imagine their stories.
 
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