Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

[Joe Copalman]

THE HOG

[trmphoto]

Convair B36J Peacemaker

[wingsnstuff]

Excellent shot Tom.  Very nice!

[trmphoto]

Excellent shot Tom.  Very nice!

Thanks Vance.

[Bjorn van der Flier]

Nice pictures, great light, only it's a pitty that the noise is very rough....

[wingsnstuff]

Thanks.  The noise issue is a problem, but i'm not sure how to fix it,  I'm probably introducing noise a number of ways, so i need to work on that. 

[Bjorn van der Flier]

Do you have your ISO setting on auto? That can be the issue, higher ISO=more noise..

[wingsnstuff]

Thank you for the tip.

[Joe Copalman]

Alabama Air Guard, perhaps?  Almost looks like there's a "D" at the beginning, but that wouldn't make any sense.

[Chris Kennedy]

I think it might be CALIF AIR GUARD. They have a 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Field that used to fly the Albatross back in the 60's (according to Wikipedia).

[Chris Kennedy]

It's definitely the 129th Rescue Squadron (as they used to be called). Here is their symbol, and it's still visible on the tail of the airplane.

[Joe Copalman]

Bingo.  Excellent sleuthing, Chris!

[Scott Youmans]

Based on the PASM book the aircraft served with the 129th from 11/1957 to 11/1963 when it went into MASDC.

[wingsnstuff]

Thanks for all the research guys.  It's really nice to have friends and associates who love aviation as much as I do...maybe even more than I do.

[trmphoto]

Boeing EB-47E Stratojet


Douglas C124C Globemaster II