Our truck was in the shop so we took advantage of having a rental car and went to Tucson. We wanted to visit friends and check out some homes for sale. We looked at a couple of nice 55 plus communities that were surrounded by nature either BLM land or state park land. Tucson is a little cooler than Yuma but still quite hot in the summer. Lots of new home construction going on around Tucson and someday I think Tucson and Phoenix will merge.
While we were in the area we visited the Pima Air Museum. We have been there before but its been many years now. The museum is dedicated to military aircraft. There are 7 or eight buildings full of planes and also a huge area outdoors with more planes. They all look like they could take off and fly but regulations require them to be non flyable. The corsair in the top picture was a popular fighter plane in WW11. The super guppy was a weird looking giant transport plane. President Kennedy and Johnson's plane was there an old version of air force one. There is an sr-71 the supersonic spy plane. There seemed to be every kind of plane ever used by the military but I'm sure there were some missing. This is a great place to see aeronautical history and especially get a sense of what flying in WW11 was like.
