This morning we went back to the Pima Air & Space Museum to do the boneyard tour. The boneyard tour is on the U.S. Air Force base here in Tucson. Believe me, we hear those new, young pilots training, almost daily. And several times a day they're flying overhead.
This is an invisible plane - an F-117 fighter. You can only see the wheels and stairs to the cockpit. Difficult to spot by the enemy!
The day started out completely cloud-covered, and raining! That doesn't happen very often. As you can see, the clouds are breaking up.
The "boneyard" is a collection of military planes resting out here in the Arizona sunshine. They're here because they can sit right on the ground for years without decaying in any way. The turf is hard enough with no threat of sinking without having to pave the field (cheaper). Many are protected from the sun with a "skin" they put over parts of the planes. Some are flown out of here again, some end up being torn apart for parts for other planes. Could be anything.
We thought it was also a commercial plane boneyard, but that's not so. It's all military, and planes mostly flown since the Vietnam War (the museum was mostly dedicated to older planes). You can see some of the planes out in the field.
This is an invisible plane - an F-117 fighter. You can only see the wheels and stairs to the cockpit. Difficult to spot by the enemy!
The day started out completely cloud-covered, and raining! That doesn't happen very often. As you can see, the clouds are breaking up.
So I picked up my new camera card. Lots of room to play with now - should have done it years ago!
Long day coming up tomorrow, so I probably won't blog until the following morning.
Looks like you have hit all the spots we hit and more. We enjoyed Fred's too with neighbours we met! Yeah I think you two are crazy to go home to the cold so early. Take another month and meet us in Tennessee!
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