Pima Air Museum & "Boneyard"

Tuesday 17th

Bryan has been suffering with his ears again and so we didn't do much on Sunday & Monday but decided to go to Pima Air Museum today.  First of all we went to Tucson Visitor Centre to get a Tucson Passport which gives two for one admissions and other deals on local attractions. It was located in a quaint building in the centre of Tucson.

 We arrived at the museum and got our 2 for 1 admission.  There were not many people here and so it was nice going around virtually alone. I got pictures of the flying bomb that Germany used on the UK during World War II.

My mum has talked about these, and how when they were in the air raid shelter in my grandparents garden they would hear these coming over, and hope the noise didn't stop as they were overhead, as that meant it was going to drop.  The hole where the air raid shelter had been was made into a pond after the war and my brother and I would fish for newts in it.
We covered about two thirds of the museum before it was time for us to catch the bus for the "Boneyard" .  This was the tour to the area at Davis Monthan Air Base, where planes are put in storage until it is decided what to do with them, scrap, regenerate etc.etc.   Bryan was really looking forward to the tour.  There are a LOT of planes here and the tour was very informative for me.  I think Bryan knew most of what the guide was telling us.  Unfortunately they were no F-111's which was the plane Bryan worked on when he was at Upper Heyford.  The last one had been scrapped a couple of weeks earlier.  We got back to the museum and finished looking around the rest of the exhibits.  We searched and searched for the F-111 that was supposed to be on display here but couldn't find it.  We decided to eat at the cafe and sat and cooled off in the restaurant.  Bryan asked one of the docents about the F-111 and they looked up where it was and told him.  We went out into the heat again, to find it.  Nope, there was no sign, just an empty space where it should have been.  So, who knows where it has gone??  We will keep looking online to see if we can find out what happened to it.
We had a really nice day, wandering around the museum and going on the bus tour to see all the old planes.
When we got back to Lily I took this picture of the sun setting behind the motorhome.  Sorry it's a little blurred.

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Wednesday 18th

Bryan went to the doctor today as his ears are not getting any better.  They gave him a prescription and we are hoping it will work.  We took it easy today.  We will see what tomorrow brings.

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