Air Museum Pics - Castle Air Museum

comiso90 · Aug 23, 2008

SoD Stitch said:
Can I post my pictures from a few weeks ago, also?

If you look inside the bomb bay of the B-36, you can see where they cut the airframe in half in order to transport it to Castle.

Interesting story: I went there with my nephew, who used to be in the ROTC before he joined the AF. He says he used to go down there (we lived in the mountains east of Atwater/Merced) and spend a whole day cleaning the planes, one by one. When he saw what kind of shape they were in, he said it looked like nobody had cleaned them since he was there 10 years ago. Sad . . . .

Of coarse.. we;d like to see the pics.. Hopefully they show something different.

Yeahhh.. now i feel like a reel looser for not helping out.

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SoD Stitch · Aug 23, 2008

comiso90 said:
Of coarse.. we;d like to see the pics.. Hopefully they show something different.

Unfortunately, they're not a whole lot different, mostly the newer planes, though I did get a couple of decent shots of the V-1710 and R-2800 inside. As soon as I get them uploaded to Photobucket, I'll post 'em here.

comiso90 · Aug 23, 2008

we can have a photo contest to see who has the best composition

SoD Stitch · Aug 24, 2008

Bad news: I just noticed the last 10 or 20 photos on my digital cam went to digital limbo, which included my shots of the V-1710 and the R-2800, AND all of my shots of the WWII stuff (including the RB-50, unfortunately). However, here ARE the ones I took (what's left of them, anyway). To make up, I'm including shots of a P-51D and a Corsair at an airshow I went to shortly after Castle.