Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full..

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Originally Posted by ChickNorris

If anyone is ever in the Tucson area, I highly recommend the Pima Air & Space Museum. They have some SR71 stuff thats awesome. Okay pretty much every thing there is. They even have a NASA guppy, crazy. Plan at least 3 hours, or the whole day if you're really into aviation. Oh & the helicopters! & the Marauder! & the flag from Normandy! & & &...!

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I didn’t even know that was there. Ive been to the desert museum but that sounds like a good reason to go get some in n out.

There IS an in & out right down the street ; )

The Davis - Monthan AFB boneyard tour is the bees knees of aviation tours if ever get a chance to go on one. Did it in 1976.

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Originally Posted by Hoser

No such thing.

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Now that's funny...

I guess an evolution of the expression is in order. I just didn't see any of them crash.

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Originally Posted by TFOGGER

I'm about a block north of the Sports Park

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Same here lol. Small world. I love it when they buzz the 'hood.

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Originally Posted by SideShow Bob

The Davis - Monthan AFB boneyard tour is the bees knees of aviation tours if ever get a chance to go on one. Did it in 1976.

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I lived there at the same time. There was only a fence on Golf Links Road and no fence to the east or south of the boneyard.
Lots of O-2 Skymasters flying formation. The A-7's had only been flying there for a couple years at that point too. The brand new A-10's showed up in March 1976 at Davis Monthan and began flying a lot there.
Skies were definitely busy over Tucson back in the mid 1970's. Occasional F-4's out of Luke in Phoenix would show up too.

RE: Pima Air Museam is great but another must go to is Wright Patterson Air and Space Museum.... Pima is good, Wright Patt is awesome... but they also have an XB-70

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Originally Posted by Hoser

No such thing.

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30,000 rivets flying in loose formation [ROFL2]

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Originally Posted by Colorado Osprey

I lived there at the same time. There was only a fence on Golf Links Road and no fence to the east or south of the boneyard.
Lots of O-2 Skymasters flying formation. The A-7's had only been flying there for a couple years at that point too. The brand new A-10's showed up in March 1976 at Davis Monthan and began flying a lot there.
Skies were definitely busy over Tucson back in the mid 1970's. Occasional F-4's out of Luke in Phoenix would show up too.

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Yup, I was there from ‘68-‘84. Witnessed the pilot punch out of the Corsair over the U of A campus in 1978.

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Originally Posted by ChickNorris

If anyone is ever in the Tucson area, I highly recommend the Pima Air & Space Museum. They have some SR71 stuff thats awesome. Okay pretty much every thing there is. They even have a NASA guppy, crazy. Plan at least 3 hours, or the whole day if you're really into aviation. Oh & the helicopters! & the Marauder! & the flag from Normandy! & & &...!

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One of the remaining (crash landed) SR-71 prototypes is at the Museum of Flight at Boeing field up near Seattle. There was also an M-21 variant that had a launchable drone, one of two remaining after the other crashed. http://www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits/blackbird

SR-71A (61-7977 / 2028)
This aircraft ended its career in flames by skidding 1000 feet off the end of runway 14 at Beale AFB, California on 10 October 1968. The takeoff was aborted when a wheel assembly failed. Capt. James A. Kogler was ordered to eject, but pilot Maj. Gabriel Kardong elected to stay with the aircraft. Both crew members survived.

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Originally Posted by Bitter Clinger

Same here lol. Small world. I love it when they buzz the 'hood.

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The sound of FREEDOM!!!

I miss the days when I worked in the flight path of Carswell AFB. B-52s so low you can count the rivets. The B-1s would fly down when there was bad weather in Abilene. I also remember watching F-8 Crusaders coming in and out of Naval Air Station Dallas.