{"id":18375,"date":"2016-03-15T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2023-01-31T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:31:42","slug":"air-minded-caf-museum-photoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=18375","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: CAF Museum Photoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our son, who lives in Las Vegas, turned 50 last week.\u00a0Since he had to be in Phoenix yesterday for a business meeting, we drove up to have dinner with him. I’ve been wanting to visit the Commemorative Air Force Museum<\/a> at Falcon Field in Mesa, so\u00a0we left Tucson in the morning and spent part of the afternoon there.<\/p>\n

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Selfie with a Stinson Reliant<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CAF is\u00a0a national organization dedicated to preserving and flying warbirds, primarily WWII aircraft. Chapters, each with its own aircraft, are located at airfields\u00a0around the country. At one time CAF stood for Confederate Air Force … unlike some sports teams, organizers saw which was the wind was blowing and changed the name, probably 20 years ago now.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0chapter\u00a0in Mesa is more of a maintenance and operations facility than a museum. By operations, of course, I mean flying: you can arrange a ride on any of several aircraft\u00a0in their collection. Of course you can also just ogle the airplanes, as we did.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos from yesterday. You can click on the individual photos to see the full sized originals on Flickr. You can also click here<\/a> to view my full CAF Museum album.<\/p>\n

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F4N front cockpit<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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MiG-15<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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C-47<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Stinson Reliant cockpit<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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P-51<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Lockheed Vega<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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B-25<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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B-17<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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

Our son, who lives in Las Vegas, turned 50 last week.\u00a0Since he had to be in Phoenix yesterday for a business meeting, we drove up to have dinner with him. I’ve been wanting to visit the Commemorative Air Force Museum at Falcon Field in Mesa, so\u00a0we left Tucson in the morning and spent part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,1601],"tags":[619,1000],"class_list":["post-18375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-photoblogging","tag-air-museum","tag-warbirds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","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=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32706,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions\/32706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}