The superb aircraft of the Pima Air Museum, ( pics)

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I separately posted a thread on the boneyard at nearby Davis Monthan.
After the Smithsonian and the US Airforce Museum in Dayton Ohio, Pima is the largest museum, and unlike others is privately run, and supported by volunteers. It has a wonderful collection of American aircraft, and a couple of really strange oddities. Here are some pics:

INSIDE:
nice B24J Liberator





an A-26 ( I think)




A P-51 with A strange distinction. The pilot carefully shot down a US plane on track to mistakenly land at a Japanese airbase, and caused it to ditch. He was one of only three with kills against Germany, Italy and Japan:





B-29







C-46




C 47


Stamford Tuck's (sp?)
Hurricane...many kills in the Battle of Britain




A rare Japanese Oscar


B-25




No ID necessary here




SR71 Blackbird









F-14

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OUTSIDE
















More to come

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AIr FOrce One for Kennedy and Johnson:

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I forgot to post this,parked at at back of the yard......U2 perhaps???

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Eric Mc said:

WB-57

This version of the B-57 was given extended wings and more powerful engines to achieve higher altitudes. That is one of the ex-NASA versions that were used for upper atmosphere research, I think.

I saw two of them in 1981 when they still in use and based at Ellington Air Force Base just outside Houston.

Ah many thanks. I could not close to it, so had no sense of way it was.

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I saw this thing taking off in the distance from the active airbase....very small shot......some kind of STOL

Edited by RDMcG on Thursday 10th November 15:10

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perdu said:

Great pictures of a marvellous museum

I saw what was more likely a Skywarrior rather than a B66 but near as buggery the same airframe, just the naval version. (Did I really just say JUST? I need keelhauling maybe)

Nice to see they have a Shackleton AEW2 with her props parked 'proper like'.

Now then nobody take these shots down (please do find the A26 picture if you can though) I want to keep coming back for yet another looksee.

Thanks

This might be the A26