Castle AFB Open Cockpit Weekend [Pics]

[Solid Fro]

During Memorial Day weekend, Castle AFB in Atwater, CA (about 3 hours from San Francisco) had an open cockpit weekend at its aircraft museum. Military craft from WWII through Vietnam eras were displayed and were open to the public, including an SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest airplane in the world. I took some pictures with my mom's 35 mm camera and then had the film developed digitally and put on a CD. Its no 4 megapixel digital camera, but the quality is very good. You can click on each picture to view a high-res 1024x768 image. Enjoy!



B-17 Flying Fortress “Virgin’s Delight”


B-29 Superfortress


B-29 Superfortress “Razin’ Hell”


B-36 Peacemaker


B-47 Stratojet “Spirit”


B-52D Stratofortress


B-52D Stratofortress “BUFF”


C-47


C-54 M.A.T.S.


CF-100 Look! Canada does have a military!


F-4 Phantom Thunderbirds paint scheme


F-101 Voodoo


F-104 Starfighter


KC-135


Avro Vulcan


SR-71 Blackbird


SR-71 Blackbird


Standing in front of the SR

Others:
B-36 Close up
C-54 Close up
KC-135 Close up
SR-71 behind
SR-71 Close up
SR-71 Close up #2

 

[Giancarlo]

Wow, sweet.

 

[MistaX]

Even tho planes arent my thing, its still pretty cool

 

[-Fred-]

Originally posted by Viper Zero


CF-100 Look! Canada does have a military!

don't go and think these are the current planes, however...