Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Az

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I've been to the copper mine too (assuming it is one and the same). Is that the one down by the border? If it is that is one massive mine.
 
I remember a massive one between Phoenix and Tucson as well. So I don't know if I'll get to Pima or not this trip, but I will look into it for future trips since the company I work for has an office in Tucson.
 
There are huge mines all over Arizona. I know the ones your both talking about and our company is working at those as well. I will be at the Morenci mine, which is close to the New Mexico border. This is a $1.3 billion project and the mine covers 10-12 sq miles.
 
We had our banquet dinner at Pima for thr 355th reunion in 08 and they were pretty far along on the B-36. It has an interesting history they may not have told you about. Circa 1970 a bunch of Convair/SAC vets had RESTORED it to operational capability. The restoration site was Great Southwest Airport on the Tarrant/Dallas County line and Hwy 183 just before DFW became operational.

When they got ready to fly it, I heard that the State Department stepped in and shut it down based on the BS that it was a nuclear capable aircraft (and a B-29 is not?). At any rate they forced them to move it (not fly it) and I never heard a word about it until it surfaced at Pima. I do not know if the State Dept story was true but sure it is the same B-36

BTW - there is as good a collection of MiG's at Pima as anywhere in the West except Nellis. They were in the very back section of the museum grounds when I last saw them.
 

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