Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Castle Air Museum - Atwater, CA
While we were in Atwater, California over the Thanksgiving Holiday, I was privileged to tour the Castle Air Museum. It is adjacent to the Castle Air Force Base (closed) and is home to approximately eighty aircraft. There is also an indoor museum that has a lot of interesting displays. Anson, Austin Burris and myself spent most of two hours here and it was very entertaining and educational. You can read about it here and here. I have also linked to Wikipedia on the names of the planes.
The raunchy "Nose Art" had been removed or "clothed" on the planes but some of the titles still remained.
Last but certainly not least, the SR-71A Blackbird. This bird flew from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 64 minutes 20 seconds with an average speed of 2144.8 MPH (Mach 3.51)...Now THAT my friends is what you call "Carrying the Mail"!!!
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Nice place. Glad you enjoyed it. There is also a concrete parking lot RV Park next door that we have stayed in several times while preaching in the area. Can not wait to hear more about your trip.
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