Classic British Flight Sim

A place I always wanted to visit (but thanks to US political attitudes I never will), as seen on Google Earth (the nearest I will get!).

How many airframes can you get?


The nearby boneyard is good too

If you want to take a closer look:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=32.14027 ... =0&src=msa

I'll go for that top row:

KC-135A, B-47, B-52 (x3), B-57, B-58, A-3 (could be an RB-66 I suppose), F-111.

In addition

Viscount, C-118, C-133 , B-24?, Neptune, Super Constellation, Constellation, C-47

Garry

I visited Pima 26 years ago and it gave the impression that the planes were just dumped in the desert and then someone started a museum around them.
I dug out the 1981 guidebook and they had no B-52 then but I remember the B-58 Hustler sitting there looking like nothing else on earth. They were a lethal looking piece of kit.

Good memories of a great holiday.

Steve

hmm maybe I should drive down the road and get some surface shots for y'all

Leif

I visited Pima 17 years ago and although I can't remember much about it without digging out my old slides (remember them?) I do recall the Constellation 'Columbine' which I think had just been restored.ATB EricT

A whole aircraft recognition competition in one pic!

I think that's a B-66, the A3 has a straight trailing edge and the B-66 has a slight crank just inboard of the engines. The crank is just visible in the Flash Eath pic.

There's some real rarities there too, one being the Boeing YC-14 STOL transport, half way down on the left hand side with a T tail (in the shadow) and engines VERY close to the fuselage. I didn't know one still existed and I think they only made two.

And to the right of that, in the smaller aircraft section, looks like an F-107! Silver with red leading edges on the left hand end of the row next to an F-106, F-105, F-104, F-102, F-101 and F-100. Looks like they parked them in numerical order, almost anyway, there's never an F-103 around when you need one.

Now come to think of it, the bombers are arranged like that too, B-47, B-52, B-57, B-58, B-66, B-111 from left to right...............

A few pics from Pima in 1981 (scanned from transparencies)









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Blimey, how many B-52s does one museum need ??

Looks terrific though, and hopefully the dry Arizona air is kinder to such outdoor exhibits than the damp climes of Britain.

This popped at SOH, is that an ex ETPS Viscount at the bottom of the photo?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1211831/L/