{"id":16522,"date":"2015-04-29T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16522"},"modified":"2023-01-31T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:38:21","slug":"air-minded-planes-of-fame-photoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16522","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Planes of Fame Photoblog I"},"content":{"rendered":"

During last week’s motorcycle trip, I visited the Planes of Fame Museum in Valle, Arizona<\/a>. The main Planes of Fame Museum is located in Chino, California<\/a>; the Arizona adjunct is what I would call an overflow facility. It’s off the beaten track, located halfway up the lonely road between Williams, Arizona and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

This was the first of what I hope will be many cook’s tours of air museums in adjacent cities and states. When I told the folks at the desk I was a volunteer docent at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, they gave me the run of the place.<\/p>\n

What I really loved about this small museum, which houses just 40 or so aircraft, is that it’s a working aircraft maintenance facility, not just a museum. Many of the aircraft on display are not just in flying condition but are actually flown. Several aircraft were being worked on in the main hangar while I was there, and outside, another group of mechanics was busy putting a Lockheed Constellation, once General Douglas MacArthur’s VIP transport, back into airworthy condition for a one-time flight to the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. It was great to be able to amble around a working hangar, not a mere collection of static please-do-not-touch exhibits.<\/p>\n

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T-28 Trojan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Martin 404 cockpit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Martin 404 interior<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Me-109<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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HA-200 Saeta<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Early biplane cockpits<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Douglas A-1 Skyraider<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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MacArthur’s Connie<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Siemens Schuckert D IV<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Grumman F2F<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Lockheed P-38 cockpit section<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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P-38 cockpit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Allison V-12 aircraft engine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major aircraft engine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These are just a few of the photos I took during my visit. Click on the thumbnails to see the full sized images on Flickr. Click here<\/a> to see my entire Planes of Fame photoset.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u2014 back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During last week’s motorcycle trip, I visited the Planes of Fame Museum in Valle, Arizona. The main Planes of Fame Museum is located in Chino, California; the Arizona adjunct is what I would call an overflow facility. It’s off the beaten track, located halfway up the lonely road between Williams, Arizona and the South Rim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,555,14],"tags":[619,1002,1000],"class_list":["post-16522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-local-color","category-military","tag-air-museum","tag-historical-aircraft","tag-warbirds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32722,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16522\/revisions\/32722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}