{"id":9169,"date":"2019-12-20T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2021-12-22T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T22:19:26","slug":"palm-springs-air-museum-palm-desert-winter-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2019\/12\/20\/palm-springs-air-museum-palm-desert-winter-scenery\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Springs Air Museum – Palm Desert Winter Scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a Thanksgiving holiday visit to relatives in Palm Desert I was able to visit the Palm Springs Air Museum which it was pointed out is considered one of the top 14 Air Museums in the world according to CNN. Just a side note, admission was quite reasonably priced at $18 for general admission, and $16 for 65 and older.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

This Douglas C-47\/DC-3 Skytrain ( Dakota ) is one of several planes that the public can ride for a extra fee.<\/p>\n

\"Silent<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The up close view of the underbelly of the Douglas C-47\/DC-3 Skytrain ( the Dakota in British\u00a0RAF<\/a> service )<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The F-84 Thunderstreak Static is one of the jets in the Korea\/Vietnam hanger.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Republic F-105 Thunderchief with armament door open showing the M61 Vulcan 20 mm cannon which could fire up to 6,000 rounds per minute.<\/p>\n

\"Propellers<\/p>\n

Straight on view of Grumann F8F Bearcat<\/p>\n

\"Curtiss<\/p>\n

The Curtiss P40 Warhawk painted with Shark teeth on the nose of the plane.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

A Grumman F7F Tigercat with a King of the Cats logo on it’s side. The F7F was the first twin engine fighter to be deployed by the US Navy.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

This “yellow tailed” North American AT-6\/SNJ Texan is a single engine trainer aircraft with more that 15,000 produced during it’s production cycle.<\/p>\n

\"North<\/p>\n

The North American B-25 Mitchell Bomber was introduced in 1941 and is named in honor of\u00a0 Major General\u00a0William “Billy” Mitchell<\/a>, a pioneer of US military aviation.<\/p>\n

\"North<\/p>\n

The North American P-51 Mustang “Bunny” sits at the edge of the European hanger and is in flying condition after a renovation in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress \u201cMiss Angela\u201d takes up almost the entire hanger it occupies.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A shiny surface? Time for a reflection selfie.<\/p>\n

\"Cockpit<\/p>\n

The cockpit is one of the more spacious areas of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. While the B-17 seemed quite large will standing outside viewing it, the plane was quite cramped while climbing through.<\/p>\n

\"Mountain<\/p>\n

The clouds and palm trees reflect off the water by the 1oth hole of the San Gorgonio course of the Mountain Vista Golf club at Sun City Palm Desert.<\/p>\n

\"Dark<\/p>\n

A striking contrast between the Sunlight on the high powers lines and the dark clouds over the mountains of the California desert.<\/p>\n

\"Sunny<\/p>\n

Sunny weather, and dark cloudy weather in the California desert brought November snow to the higher elevations.<\/p>\n

\"Take<\/p>\n

To continue the aircraft theme of this post, here is the takeoff of our return flight home from Ontario airport abroad a Southwest airlines flight. An early season cold weather system left snow on the San Gabriel Mountains and Mount San Antonio which is covered by the clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a Thanksgiving holiday visit to relatives in Palm Desert I was able to visit the Palm Springs Air Museum which it was pointed out is considered one of the top 14 Air Museums in the world according to CNN. Just a side note, admission was quite reasonably priced at $18 for general admission, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[3,2919],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9203,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}