My guess is it was a Havaliena. 200-300 lb. hairy black pig with tusks and a mean disposition. There are packs of the located on various SoPac islands.

Excellent find AF!

The guy who played “Wharf” (the Klingon) on Star Trek – The Next Generation” managed to hold down his day job while still acquiring his twin/jet rating in a Sabreliner, and mastering the F-86. He owns a couple of others as well, and is looking toward purchasing and flying an F-100 Super Sabre. The same guy used to frequent the online sim “WarBirds” as well. 😉

BBTW – Gary Neuman is best known for his early 1980’s New Wave hit “Cars”. I loved it as a kid!! Some of the first good synth based music IMO.

One good thing about Pima is the perpetual arid conditions there. I’ll bet you can probably count the days it rains there on one hand. The planes live in the environment you see in those photos probably 95% of their days. Little humidity, no environment for corrosion, etc. As dusty and forlorn as alot of those planes look, they probably stand a far better chance at long term preservation than planes in other parts of the country that are kept inside non-sealed, non-envoronmentally controlled hangars.

I often wonder what condition the massive surplus stocks from WWII would be in if the military had simply left them alone! It’s not like the goverment is suffering from a shortage of desert property. They control gazillions of square acres out there.

I’d love to see some quality shots of the F4U-4 Corsair display! All of the one’s I’ve seen in recent times are not so great, bad lighting, etc.

I remember watching Airwolf as a kid and taping the episode featuring the Air Museum’s F4U-1A Corsair (marked as “WS/80”). It took me forever as a kid to figure out who’s Corsair that was! I believe the bad guy in that episode was helping to rob banks with the fighter (figure that one out)! Later on he tried to shoot down that red headed girl that worked for Stringfellow Hawk while she was flying a King Air. Oddly enough, he was using the triple bozooka-tube type armament under the wings for air-to-air combat. There we some excellent scenes of the fighter skimming the ground while rifling through one of those unmistakable California canyons so often seen on the Blacksheep Squadron series.

You can’t forget Stephen Speilburg’s “1941” with John Belushi’s character flying the P-40. I believe that was the CAF’s plane.