July 7 to July 18, 2005
Route 66 - Westbound
image: The Oklahoma City (OKC)
skyline looks about the same as it did two
years ago. Most of these pictures on Route 66 were taken from a
moving car (and some I took while driving), so they aren't particularly
good.
image: A new wind farm near Weatherford, OK, about 60 miles west of OKC. Those windmills are enormous. (The scale is deceptive in this shot.)
image: The sign for Clinton, OK, about 20 miles west of OKC. Clinton is the site of Spaceport Oklahoma, where a company intends to start launching tourists into space by 2007.
image: Field, tractor, granary: a typical rural Oklahoma scene. The tractor (like many other things I saw on this trip) reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath.
image: Clinton's water tower, advertising its Route 66 museum (which I did not visit). Having spent most of my life in Colorado, water towers are still something of a novelty to me.
image: The open road, somewhere in Texas. The frontage road visible on the right is the original Route 66.
image: This leaning water tower, in Groom, TX, is the last remnant of the Britten USA truck stop. Quirky landmarks like this abound on the Mother Road.
image: A mesa at sunset somewhere in New Mexico.
(We made a detour to the Meteor Crater, which merits its own category following this. The photographic record resumes near the California border.)
image: Interstate 40 in Arizona descends toward the Colorado River and the California border. This also makes me think of The Grapes of Wrath.
image: This shot shows the difference between verdant California (in the foreground) and arid Arizona (in the background).
image: A solar farm in the Mojave reminded me of the recent action flick Sahara.
image: A new wind farm near Weatherford, OK, about 60 miles west of OKC. Those windmills are enormous. (The scale is deceptive in this shot.)
image: The sign for Clinton, OK, about 20 miles west of OKC. Clinton is the site of Spaceport Oklahoma, where a company intends to start launching tourists into space by 2007.
image: Field, tractor, granary: a typical rural Oklahoma scene. The tractor (like many other things I saw on this trip) reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath.
image: Clinton's water tower, advertising its Route 66 museum (which I did not visit). Having spent most of my life in Colorado, water towers are still something of a novelty to me.
image: The open road, somewhere in Texas. The frontage road visible on the right is the original Route 66.
image: This leaning water tower, in Groom, TX, is the last remnant of the Britten USA truck stop. Quirky landmarks like this abound on the Mother Road.
image: A mesa at sunset somewhere in New Mexico.
(We made a detour to the Meteor Crater, which merits its own category following this. The photographic record resumes near the California border.)
image: Interstate 40 in Arizona descends toward the Colorado River and the California border. This also makes me think of The Grapes of Wrath.
image: This shot shows the difference between verdant California (in the foreground) and arid Arizona (in the background).
image: A solar farm in the Mojave reminded me of the recent action flick Sahara.
Meteor Crater
(According to Willy Ley, this
ought to be called "Meteor Ringwall", since "Crater" connotes volcanic
activity, not bombardment from space. While I happen to agree with him,
I will refer to this site by its official, albeit inaccurate, name:
Meteor Crater. The alternate title seems to hold the greatest potential
for confusion.)
image: Meteor Crater Road. The rim of the crater is visible on the horizon at the left of the shot.
image: The exterior of the museum facility.
image: A composite panorama of the Crater. The place was too big for me to fit it all in one shot.
image: My mother viewing details of the crater through a telescope.
image: A telescopic view of the bottom of the crater, with a plywood astronaut provided for scale.
image: The floor of the crater.
image: The cliffs on the opposite side of the crater.
image: An anonymous sightseer overlooks the crater.
image: A helicopter soars above the crater.
image: The view from the crater's rim: Meteor Crater Road winds away toward Interstate 40, with the mountains of Flagstaff far in the distance.
image: An Apollo boilerplate capsule, BP-29. Apollo astronauts trained at this place in the 1960s.
image: Detail of the apex of the capsule.
image: A trademark shot of my feet on a rock on the crater rim.
This is a full reenactment of my tour of the Mojave two years earlier. Thus, in the interest of avoiding complete redundancy with the site describing my first trip, I will focus this page on the way things have changed in the two years between my visits. This time, I toured the desert with Andrew Jabola, fellow Walla Walla College engineering student and star of "The Slap".
image: The high desert near Adelanto, CA. The sign as one enters town reads: "Adelanto: The City With Unlimited Possibilities." Unlimited possibilities, yes; Andrew remarked; but not much else.
image: A grisly scene of severed plane parts. This is at the George Air Force Base boneyard, in Adelanto. Surprisingly, there were fewer airliners there in 2005 than in 2003. I don't know whether they were scrapped or recomissioned.
image: A disemfuselaged tail.
image: A rather large hangar at George. The water towers belong to the nearby correctional facility.
image: A Joshua Tree on Highway 58, heading to Mojave Airport.
image: The sign pointing to Edwards Air Force Base, which is still closed to the general public.
image: I was rather surprised to see at Mojave Airport the Roton Atmospheric Test Vehicle (ATV). (Roton was a Single-Stage to Orbit launch vehicle concept from the late 1990s. The Roton article on Wikipedia gives a good overview of the project. I wrote some of the article and it features some of these pictures.)
image: The other side of the Roton ATV. The rotors and rotor head are missing, so I assume they were sold to recover some of the costs of building this vehicle.
image: A traditional helicopter (a Huey) flies behind an unorthodox helicopter (the Roton).
image: The top of the vehicle.
image: Detail of the cockpit. Note the ladder leading up to the cockpit.
image: Detail of the FAA registry number. Andrew pointed out that the "RR" in "N990RR" must refer to "Rotary Rocket".
image: The "Rotary Rocket" logo on the opposite side of the body from the cockpit.
image: The companies involved in creating this vehicle. Scaled Composites built the body. LAPCAD is an obscure CAD program that I assume was used to design Roton.
image: Detail of Roton's landing gear. Note the fabric strips above the Scaled logo: these are used to detect atmospheric flutter during flight testing. Since Roton last flew nearly six years before I took this picture, I find it surprising that these fragile flutter strips still exist.
image: The base of the rocket.
image: The heatshield. An orbital Roton would have had an Aerospike engine down here.
image: The Rotary Rocket hangars look a little the worse for wear.
image: The Rotary Rocket logo is falling apart. Compare this with a similar shot from two years prior.
image: The Scaled Composites hangar looks about the same as it did two years ago. Andrew likened my touring the Mojave Airport to stalking famous people. Here I must disagree with him. No, Andrew, we were not stalking famous people: we were stalking famous airplanes.
image: Scaled's ground support van. This was the only visible sign of the SpaceShipOne program. It is seen in this picture of support hardware on the Scaled Composites website. Their picture looks a little better than mine.
image: Looking back on the control tower as we drive away from Mojave Airport.
image: A wide shot of the rocket test stands on the northern edge of Edwards Air Force base. I discuss the stands in detail here.
image: The sun sets behind a transmission line tower beside US 395.
image: Meteor Crater Road. The rim of the crater is visible on the horizon at the left of the shot.
image: The exterior of the museum facility.
image: A composite panorama of the Crater. The place was too big for me to fit it all in one shot.
image: My mother viewing details of the crater through a telescope.
image: A telescopic view of the bottom of the crater, with a plywood astronaut provided for scale.
image: The floor of the crater.
image: The cliffs on the opposite side of the crater.
image: An anonymous sightseer overlooks the crater.
image: A helicopter soars above the crater.
image: The view from the crater's rim: Meteor Crater Road winds away toward Interstate 40, with the mountains of Flagstaff far in the distance.
image: An Apollo boilerplate capsule, BP-29. Apollo astronauts trained at this place in the 1960s.
image: Detail of the apex of the capsule.
image: A trademark shot of my feet on a rock on the crater rim.
This is a full reenactment of my tour of the Mojave two years earlier. Thus, in the interest of avoiding complete redundancy with the site describing my first trip, I will focus this page on the way things have changed in the two years between my visits. This time, I toured the desert with Andrew Jabola, fellow Walla Walla College engineering student and star of "The Slap".
image: The high desert near Adelanto, CA. The sign as one enters town reads: "Adelanto: The City With Unlimited Possibilities." Unlimited possibilities, yes; Andrew remarked; but not much else.
image: A grisly scene of severed plane parts. This is at the George Air Force Base boneyard, in Adelanto. Surprisingly, there were fewer airliners there in 2005 than in 2003. I don't know whether they were scrapped or recomissioned.
image: A disemfuselaged tail.
image: A rather large hangar at George. The water towers belong to the nearby correctional facility.
image: A Joshua Tree on Highway 58, heading to Mojave Airport.
image: The sign pointing to Edwards Air Force Base, which is still closed to the general public.
image: I was rather surprised to see at Mojave Airport the Roton Atmospheric Test Vehicle (ATV). (Roton was a Single-Stage to Orbit launch vehicle concept from the late 1990s. The Roton article on Wikipedia gives a good overview of the project. I wrote some of the article and it features some of these pictures.)
image: The other side of the Roton ATV. The rotors and rotor head are missing, so I assume they were sold to recover some of the costs of building this vehicle.
image: A traditional helicopter (a Huey) flies behind an unorthodox helicopter (the Roton).
image: The top of the vehicle.
image: Detail of the cockpit. Note the ladder leading up to the cockpit.
image: Detail of the FAA registry number. Andrew pointed out that the "RR" in "N990RR" must refer to "Rotary Rocket".
image: The "Rotary Rocket" logo on the opposite side of the body from the cockpit.
image: The companies involved in creating this vehicle. Scaled Composites built the body. LAPCAD is an obscure CAD program that I assume was used to design Roton.
image: Detail of Roton's landing gear. Note the fabric strips above the Scaled logo: these are used to detect atmospheric flutter during flight testing. Since Roton last flew nearly six years before I took this picture, I find it surprising that these fragile flutter strips still exist.
image: The base of the rocket.
image: The heatshield. An orbital Roton would have had an Aerospike engine down here.
image: The Rotary Rocket hangars look a little the worse for wear.
image: The Rotary Rocket logo is falling apart. Compare this with a similar shot from two years prior.
image: The Scaled Composites hangar looks about the same as it did two years ago. Andrew likened my touring the Mojave Airport to stalking famous people. Here I must disagree with him. No, Andrew, we were not stalking famous people: we were stalking famous airplanes.
image: Scaled's ground support van. This was the only visible sign of the SpaceShipOne program. It is seen in this picture of support hardware on the Scaled Composites website. Their picture looks a little better than mine.
image: Looking back on the control tower as we drive away from Mojave Airport.
image: A wide shot of the rocket test stands on the northern edge of Edwards Air Force base. I discuss the stands in detail here.
image: The sun sets behind a transmission line tower beside US 395.
Planes of Fame Museum
(I've already been to the Planes of Fame Museum before,
two years before this visit, so I will focus on the differences between
that trip and this one.)
image: The museum's B-17 Flying Fortress was open for tours. It was staffed by a veteran who had flown thirty missions in a B-17 during the War. He is visible under the rightmost engine in this shot.
image: This B-17 is in an advanced stage of neglect, but the museum is raising funds to restore it to flying condition (which will be no mean feat). Here, the tail.
image: Another view of the tail.
image: Andrew gives a sense of scale behind the wings.
image: One of the engines. Note the wire mesh to prevent birds from roosting inside the cowling.
image: Below the starboard wing, inboard of the engines.
image: The entire plane was open for us to wander through. I'd been through B-17s before (thrice at Oshkosh), but I'd never been through one in such an advanced stage of neglect. Here, the rear fuselage.
image: The radio equipment.
image: A few bombs in the bomb bay.
image: Andrew crawls back into the bomb bay from the cockpit.
image: The pilot's wheel in the cockpit. Compare this to the restored B-17 Lone Star.
image: The bombardier's seat. I'm fairly certain the seat itself is not authentic.
image: The nose of a flyable Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
image: An unorthodox Japanese rocketplane, the Shusui.
image: The radial engine of a P-26 Peashooter.
image: A late World War II Nazi jet, the He-162a.
image: An overall view of the elegant Horten Ho-IV.
image: Hitler gets the boot in this amusing nose art.
image: A Sherman tank.
image: A half-track.
image: The P-51 Mustang Spam Can peeks through the open hangar doors.
image: The nose of the B-25 Mitchell Photo Fanny.
image: The Northrop N9M-B looked about the same as last time. It was on display in the dark, cramped jet hangar, so it was difficult to get a good shot.
image: The Northrop logos on the front of the N9M-B.
image: The "engine" of a faux Geebee.
image: The rear of the second D-558-2 Skyrocket.
image: The Skyrocket's cockpit.
image: The tail. Note the tail number: 37973.
image: The engine.
image: The air brake.
image: A magnificently restored Convair 240. There must be work left to do on this airplane, since the museum is still raising funds for its restoration.
image: The nose of the Convair 240.
March Field, a fine museum in Riverside, CA, has about sixty aircraft in its collection, but I will focus primarily on the large transports and bombers on display, since I found these the most interesting.
image: The indoor display space has a number of interesting artifacts, such as these bilingual Pepsi cans from the First Gulf War era.
image, image: This B-47 Stratojet cockpit was used in the film Strategic Air Command, starring Jimmy Stewart.
image: This BT-13 Valiant was converted into a Japanese Kate divebomber for the film Tora! Tora! Tora!
image, image: The B-17 at this museum was in much better shape than the one we saw the day before.
image: An overall view of the museum's B-29 Superfortress, which flew bombing missions over Japan during World War II.
image: A rear view of the B-29.
image: A panoramic front view of the B-29.
image: Two of the B-29's engines.
image: The front fuselage.
image: The glass nose, through which the bombardier looked on missions. My reflection is visible below and right of center, making this a sort of aerospace enthusiast's self portrait.
image, image: Two views of the bomb bay.
image: A wide view of the KC-97 Stratoliner, an enormous transport based on the B-50 Stratofortress (a derivative of the B-29).
image: Chris Rasmussen stands in front of the KC-97. It was at about this point that he remarked that the planes were getting to big for the medium angle lens he was using.
image: The engines of the KC-97. Note the turbochargers.
image: A rear view of the KC-97.
image: The tail.
image: The refueling boom. Note the spikes on the tip of the vanes to prevent birds from perching there.
image: A panorama of a B-47 Stratojet.
image: The B-47's nose.
image: The B-47's tail guns.
image: The B-47 framed under the wing of the museum's B-52.
image: A panorama of the B-52. This aircraft flew bombing missions over Vietnam.
image: The three of us who toured the museum that day (from left to right): Chris Rasmussen, Andrew Jabola, and Willy Logan (me). Thanks to an anonymous museum volunteer for taking this picture for us.
image: Chris and Andrew inspect an F-100 Super Sabre.
image: The front of a KC-135 on display.
image: A panorama of an SR-71 Blackbird, which also served over Vietnam. This plane appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (which I have not seen).
image: The sign on the fence of March Air Reserve Base.
image: A C-5 Galaxy rolls toward takeoff.
image: The C-5 lifts off.
image: A KC-135 in flight. (This is not the plane on display a few shots prior to this one, obviously.)
My mother took a balloon flight over the northern San Diego area later that week. I followed the chase crew during the balloon's flight.
image: The balloon's envelope begins to inflate.
image: The envelope a few minutes later.
image: The burner shoots hot air into the envelope.
image: The balloon begins to right itself.
image: An overall view of the balloon, nearly ready for takeoff.
image: Beneath the balloon as it rises.
image: The balloon disappears into mist.
image: Above a vineyard at sunset.
image: The balloon comes in for a landing.
image: The balloon, safely on the ground, shows off its burner.
image: The interior of the envelope as it deflates.
image: The museum's B-17 Flying Fortress was open for tours. It was staffed by a veteran who had flown thirty missions in a B-17 during the War. He is visible under the rightmost engine in this shot.
image: This B-17 is in an advanced stage of neglect, but the museum is raising funds to restore it to flying condition (which will be no mean feat). Here, the tail.
image: Another view of the tail.
image: Andrew gives a sense of scale behind the wings.
image: One of the engines. Note the wire mesh to prevent birds from roosting inside the cowling.
image: Below the starboard wing, inboard of the engines.
image: The entire plane was open for us to wander through. I'd been through B-17s before (thrice at Oshkosh), but I'd never been through one in such an advanced stage of neglect. Here, the rear fuselage.
image: The radio equipment.
image: A few bombs in the bomb bay.
image: Andrew crawls back into the bomb bay from the cockpit.
image: The pilot's wheel in the cockpit. Compare this to the restored B-17 Lone Star.
image: The bombardier's seat. I'm fairly certain the seat itself is not authentic.
image: The nose of a flyable Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
image: An unorthodox Japanese rocketplane, the Shusui.
image: The radial engine of a P-26 Peashooter.
image: A late World War II Nazi jet, the He-162a.
image: An overall view of the elegant Horten Ho-IV.
image: Hitler gets the boot in this amusing nose art.
image: A Sherman tank.
image: A half-track.
image: The P-51 Mustang Spam Can peeks through the open hangar doors.
image: The nose of the B-25 Mitchell Photo Fanny.
image: The Northrop N9M-B looked about the same as last time. It was on display in the dark, cramped jet hangar, so it was difficult to get a good shot.
image: The Northrop logos on the front of the N9M-B.
image: The "engine" of a faux Geebee.
image: The rear of the second D-558-2 Skyrocket.
image: The Skyrocket's cockpit.
image: The tail. Note the tail number: 37973.
image: The engine.
image: The air brake.
image: A magnificently restored Convair 240. There must be work left to do on this airplane, since the museum is still raising funds for its restoration.
image: The nose of the Convair 240.
March Field, a fine museum in Riverside, CA, has about sixty aircraft in its collection, but I will focus primarily on the large transports and bombers on display, since I found these the most interesting.
image: The indoor display space has a number of interesting artifacts, such as these bilingual Pepsi cans from the First Gulf War era.
image, image: This B-47 Stratojet cockpit was used in the film Strategic Air Command, starring Jimmy Stewart.
image: This BT-13 Valiant was converted into a Japanese Kate divebomber for the film Tora! Tora! Tora!
image, image: The B-17 at this museum was in much better shape than the one we saw the day before.
image: An overall view of the museum's B-29 Superfortress, which flew bombing missions over Japan during World War II.
image: A rear view of the B-29.
image: A panoramic front view of the B-29.
image: Two of the B-29's engines.
image: The front fuselage.
image: The glass nose, through which the bombardier looked on missions. My reflection is visible below and right of center, making this a sort of aerospace enthusiast's self portrait.
image, image: Two views of the bomb bay.
image: A wide view of the KC-97 Stratoliner, an enormous transport based on the B-50 Stratofortress (a derivative of the B-29).
image: Chris Rasmussen stands in front of the KC-97. It was at about this point that he remarked that the planes were getting to big for the medium angle lens he was using.
image: The engines of the KC-97. Note the turbochargers.
image: A rear view of the KC-97.
image: The tail.
image: The refueling boom. Note the spikes on the tip of the vanes to prevent birds from perching there.
image: A panorama of a B-47 Stratojet.
image: The B-47's nose.
image: The B-47's tail guns.
image: The B-47 framed under the wing of the museum's B-52.
image: A panorama of the B-52. This aircraft flew bombing missions over Vietnam.
image: The three of us who toured the museum that day (from left to right): Chris Rasmussen, Andrew Jabola, and Willy Logan (me). Thanks to an anonymous museum volunteer for taking this picture for us.
image: Chris and Andrew inspect an F-100 Super Sabre.
image: The front of a KC-135 on display.
image: A panorama of an SR-71 Blackbird, which also served over Vietnam. This plane appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (which I have not seen).
image: The sign on the fence of March Air Reserve Base.
image: A C-5 Galaxy rolls toward takeoff.
image: The C-5 lifts off.
image: A KC-135 in flight. (This is not the plane on display a few shots prior to this one, obviously.)
My mother took a balloon flight over the northern San Diego area later that week. I followed the chase crew during the balloon's flight.
image: The balloon's envelope begins to inflate.
image: The envelope a few minutes later.
image: The burner shoots hot air into the envelope.
image: The balloon begins to right itself.
image: An overall view of the balloon, nearly ready for takeoff.
image: Beneath the balloon as it rises.
image: The balloon disappears into mist.
image: Above a vineyard at sunset.
image: The balloon comes in for a landing.
image: The balloon, safely on the ground, shows off its burner.
image: The interior of the envelope as it deflates.
San Diego Maritime Museum
The San Diego Maritime Museum
has a variety of ships and boats in its collection, ranging from tiny
sailing boats to a Soviet submarine.
image: An overall view of the museum. From left to right: b-39 (Soviet sub), Berkeley (ferry, with black smokestack), H.M.S. Surprise (replica frigate), and Star of India ("the world's oldest active ship").
image: The rear of the Californian, a modern schooner.
image: The Californian flying the Bear Flag.
image: The Californian heads out into the San Diego Bay.
image: The Berkeley, a ferry, served in the San Francisco Bay a century ago, and was involved with evacuating victims of the infamous 1906 'Quake to Oakland.
image: The U.S.S. Midway, although not part of the Maritime Museum, was visible on a boat tour we took of the harbor.
image: Another view of the Midway.
image: The Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), anchored on the opposite side of the bay.
image: Hotel towers, as viewed from the bay.
image: More of San Diego's skyline.
image: An overall view of the Star of India (originally christened Euterpe), a merchant bark.
image, image: Two views of the Star's sails.
image: The Star's bowsprit.
image: The Tramblie Sisters on the deck of the Star of India. (The one on the right is my mother.)
image: An interior view of the stern cabins.
image: The Star of India framed by the H.M.S. Surprise's stern and the b-39's prow.
image: An overall view of the H.M.S. Surprise, a replica of a sixth-rate Royal Navy frigate. It was originally christened the H.M.S. Rose, but its name was changed after playing the part of Jack Aubrey's fictional ship in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
image: The Surprise's fore and main masts.
image, image: Two views of the ship's bell, which still bears the name H.M.S. Rose.
image: The singularly unimpressive deck cannons were made of fiberglass.
image: Looking up at the rigging.
image: The Surprise flies a naval version of the Union Jack.
image: The Surprise's figurehead.
image: An overall view of the b-39, a Soviet diesel submarine.
image: One of the fore torpedo tubes.
image: Looking into an aft torpedo tube.
image: The access hatch for a torpedo tube.
image: San Diego's impressive art deco Civic Center stands just across the street from the maritime museum.
image: A panoramic view of Cadillac Ranch, a modernistic sculpture garden of sorts in western Amarillo, TX, on I-40.
image, image, image: Closer views of the upended Cadillacs.
image: Closeup of a door handle buried partway in the dirt.
image, image, image: Three views of a KC-135 Stratotanker flying overhead near Clinton, OK.
image: An overall view of the museum. From left to right: b-39 (Soviet sub), Berkeley (ferry, with black smokestack), H.M.S. Surprise (replica frigate), and Star of India ("the world's oldest active ship").
image: The rear of the Californian, a modern schooner.
image: The Californian flying the Bear Flag.
image: The Californian heads out into the San Diego Bay.
image: The Berkeley, a ferry, served in the San Francisco Bay a century ago, and was involved with evacuating victims of the infamous 1906 'Quake to Oakland.
image: The U.S.S. Midway, although not part of the Maritime Museum, was visible on a boat tour we took of the harbor.
image: Another view of the Midway.
image: The Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), anchored on the opposite side of the bay.
image: Hotel towers, as viewed from the bay.
image: More of San Diego's skyline.
image: An overall view of the Star of India (originally christened Euterpe), a merchant bark.
image, image: Two views of the Star's sails.
image: The Star's bowsprit.
image: The Tramblie Sisters on the deck of the Star of India. (The one on the right is my mother.)
image: An interior view of the stern cabins.
image: The Star of India framed by the H.M.S. Surprise's stern and the b-39's prow.
image: An overall view of the H.M.S. Surprise, a replica of a sixth-rate Royal Navy frigate. It was originally christened the H.M.S. Rose, but its name was changed after playing the part of Jack Aubrey's fictional ship in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
image: The Surprise's fore and main masts.
image, image: Two views of the ship's bell, which still bears the name H.M.S. Rose.
image: The singularly unimpressive deck cannons were made of fiberglass.
image: Looking up at the rigging.
image: The Surprise flies a naval version of the Union Jack.
image: The Surprise's figurehead.
image: An overall view of the b-39, a Soviet diesel submarine.
image: One of the fore torpedo tubes.
image: Looking into an aft torpedo tube.
image: The access hatch for a torpedo tube.
image: San Diego's impressive art deco Civic Center stands just across the street from the maritime museum.
image: A panoramic view of Cadillac Ranch, a modernistic sculpture garden of sorts in western Amarillo, TX, on I-40.
image, image, image: Closer views of the upended Cadillacs.
image: Closeup of a door handle buried partway in the dirt.
image, image, image: Three views of a KC-135 Stratotanker flying overhead near Clinton, OK.
willy@wilhelm-aerospace.org