Pima Planes

This weekend Matt and I visited the Pima Air Museum. The Air Force Base is in the heart of Tucson, thus the Air Museum is a quite extensive. Now, this is not something that I would have ever thought to go to on my own. First of all, everything looks the same to me, so I can't really appreciate the unique qualities of each different plane. Matt, on the otherhand, grew up studying different planes and going to air shows with his grandfather. He also watched ALOT of Top Gun. Now, I do enjoy Top Gun, as much as the next guy, but I assure you, it has nothing to do with the aircraft. Anyway, it was a very fun afternoon. Matt was my own personal tour guide and could easily point out the names of each planes from a hundred yards away. It was really neat. The first picture is of Matt in front of....a......plane? The second pic, is of me and Matt in front of another plane. This plane is particularly significant because Matt's grandfather worked on them while he was in the Air Force. I believe it is B-47, but don't quote me on that. The final picture, is of Air Force One used by President John F. Kennedy. We got to walk around inside of it; it was very interesting! The final leg of our tour sent us 20 mins outside of Tucson, to the last remaining missile silo in the U.S. So we got to see one the last nuclear bombs leftover from the Cold War. When Matt told me were going to tour a "missile silo," I did not expect the tour to take us five feet from a nuclear war head. It's buried underneath the ground, so we actually got to go down there and see it. Very interesting and just a little nerve racking. The whole time you are thinking: "Hmmm, I am standing five feet from a nuclear bomb 300 times the size and strength of the one that wiped out Hiroshima. Good times...." We were also required to wear festive hard hats during the tour. Matt refused to take a picture of me in it; I guess the public is not ready to see me in a hard hat.....