[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

[Jack Antonio]

The B-36 Larry mentions is at the Castle Air Museum, at
the old Castle AFB. Actually, it is in pretty good shape,
the museum has done quite a bit of work on it, both externally
and internally.

The Castle museum holds an "open cockpit" day once or twice a
year, where the aircraft are opened up, and volunteers
help people in and out of the aircraft, and answer questions.
Usually, the volunteers have some experience with the aircraft
in question, for example the B-52 was hosted by an retired
SAC navigator. Usually it is on the Memorial Day weekend, but
they had one in September a year or two ago.

The B-36 has some electronics aboard, an AN/ART-13 and BC-348
were sitting there, but not on mounts or cabled, and a sharp eye could 
see the mounts and cabling for an AN/ARC-3. Unfortunately, they did have 
some out of place electronics, such as something like a BC-457 sitting 
on the navigators table.



Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4





On 7/28/2010 2:01 AM, Larry Godek wrote:

> There is as far as i know one other B-36 still in one piece but
 > she is in pretty sad shape.  thats over in california.  I want to say
 > the old Castle AFB but i'm not sure if that's correct or not.
 >  They did have a pretty nice collection of aircraft including a 
British bomber.
>  What a beautiful airplane the 36 was.  Called the "Queen".