Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

[John B.]

Fun Italian Automobiles of Tucson.  "FIAT" for short!


Fun Italian Automobiles of Tucson par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

Just a quick view of our Tiger as it gets its blue paint:

Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

The F-11 is coming together...


Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

New SH-60B arrival this morning:


Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk 162134 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

One more of the F-11 in our restoration hangar:


Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

The Grumman Tiger is out on display now.  It has switched places with our "Yak-12" painted T-33.


Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star "Yak-12" par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star "Yak-12" par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Grumman F-11A Tiger 141824 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

Just a few pics from back in February while we cleaned up the Ilyushin Il-2 windscreen and cockpit glass and plexiglass.  These really are quickie snapshots as I took these while I was working with all of this stuff.

A couple of months before this I had found that very hot water was the most effective cleaning agent, so we got ourselves an electric stove and first soaked the glass and plex as the first step.  (Both the glass and plex were then polished soon after these images were taken.)


Ilyushin Il-2 Windscreen Glass par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik 5612 Glass Cleaning par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik 5612 Cockpit Glass par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik 5612 Windscreen Glass par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik 5612 Windscreen and Cockpit Glass par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

Here is how our EC-121 looks with the lower radome reattached to the airplane:


Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star 53-0554 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[wingsnstuff]

Excellent set John.  The Blue Angel F-11 is an awesome restoration. 

[wingsnstuff]

John, can you/would you be willing to add you Warning Star image and any other EC-121 images you have to my Flickr Constellation and All Military Variants Group.  You are invited to join and post as many of you constellation images and you would like.  Thanks

[John B.]

John, can you/would you be willing to add you Warning Star image and any other EC-121 images you have to my Flickr Constellation and All Military Variants Group.  You are invited to join and post as many of you constellation images and you would like.  Thanks

Many thanks as I do appreciate your invitation.  The only problem is I let my Flickr account go dormant in 2013! 

[John B.]

The arrival of two P-2 Neptunes at the museum last week:


Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune 148343 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune 150281 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[Matt Ottosen]

Those two Neptunes are so cool!

[John B.]

A look at the newly created row of Harriers:


Harriers par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Adding a couple more images:


Harriers par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

Harriers par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity

[John B.]

Monsoon season is approaching...  Or at least we hope it is!


SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3A XZ396 par John Bezosky Jr., on ipernity