A bit late with this post, but as promised last time, this will be mainly about our visit to the Pima Air & Space Museum. The place is so big with thousands of interesting exhibits and air craft that I’ll probably break the posts into three parts.
With that said, first a link to their website; Pima Air & Space Museum
After you’ve perused that, we’ll start with our own visit…
Several odd looking aircraft on display, along with engines showing the various methods they used back in the day with air cooled radial engines.
Here’s one of those odd aircraft. Not sure it could actually fly.
And a very well done replica of the Wright Bros aircraft.
I don’t really have much to say about these aircraft, they’re just nice to look at.
Lots of military aircraft with some commercial craft thrown in…and this map. I was stationed on the harbor masters ship in Da Nang harbor (on the coast, not far south of the DMZ), on the USS Oak Hill, LSD-7. A floating dry dock that carried military mobile equipment and landing craft. The rear of the ship would sink and boats would power into the well deck, and non-water equipment would be lowered into the well deck with the ship’s two giant cranes. We also carried a contingent of Marines for deployment. We hauled anchor one time and sailed south to Chu Lai where we dropped off the Marines using landing craft so the ship stood offshore a couple miles. Then back to Da Nang. John and I toured this museum and he was stationed far south of where I was, north of Saigon a bit, I believe he said. Worked as an aircraft mechanic.
The ship I was on is now scrap metal. Got sold for scrap not long after we returned to the US and shortly after I received my separation papers so I was at home when they mothballed her.
So that’s all for today, I’ll post more soon. Thanks for reading!