Tuesday, January 25 to Thursday, January 27, 2022 (The Oasis Resort, Palm Springs, CA PART 2)

Our week in Palm Springs continues...for those of you who know Steve, he loves airplanes, so whenever there is a museum close, he has to check it out!

Tuesday afternoon, Allison and I dropped Steve off at the Palm Springs Air Museum while we went for haircuts. Needless to say, he was in his glory...Earl's back is still acting up, so unfortunately, he missed out on the museum. I'll pass this over to Steve now....

If you have the dollars you are able to take a flight in one of the many aircraft from $99 to $4,995!!! They have a huge aeronautics library, and half a dozen flight simulators to play on. 

Left - North American F-86 Sabre, Bell Hue UH-1B Helicopter...

                                                                              Right - AH-1 Huey Cobra, Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw

REPUBLIC P-47 THUNDERBOLT FIGHTER BOMBER (JUG)

Side view...

NORTH AMERICAN B-25 MITCHELL BOMBER

SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE MARK XIV

WACO CG-4A MILITARY GLIDER

BELL P-63 KINGCOBRA FIGHTER BOMBER (The engine is behind the cockpit and the prop is driven by a long driveshaft)

SBD "DAUNTLESS" SCOUT DIVE BOMBER

GRUMMAN TBF/TBM AVENGER...the type of aircraft former President George H.W. Bush flew...

F4/FM-2 "WILDCAT" NAVAL FIGHTER

F6F-5 "HELLCAT" NAVY FIGHTER

A26-C "INVADER" ATTACK BOMBER

GRUMMAN F7F-3 (MODELG51) TIGERCAT -NIGHT FIGHTER BOMBER

F4U / FG-4 / F3A "CORSAIR" FIGHTER BOMBER

Rear view...

P-40 WARHAWK FIGHTER

Rear view...

USS THE SULLIVANS (DD-537)

USS MISSOURI (BB-63) The surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. 

We toured this ship a few years ago in Pearl Harbor...

USS MINNEAPOLIS (CA-36)

USS LEXINGTON  (CV-2) Sunk May 8,1942

BELL HUEY UH-1H

F8F "BEARCAT" FIGHTER

Rear view

SHORT VIDEO OF NORTH AMERICAN T-28 TROJAN

ANOTHER NORTH AMERICAN T-28 TROJAN

NORTH AMERICAN F-100 SUPER SABRE

The description was blank but I believe this to be a REPUBLIC F-105 THUNDERCHIEF

Another blank description but I believe this to be an LTV A-7 CORSAIR II

F-14 TOMCAT ( Made famous in the TOPGUN movie)

GRUMMAN EA-6B PROWLER

CONVAIR F-106 DELTA DART

STUDEBAKER...don't know why this was on the flight line...

F-4B PHANTOM II FIGHTER BOMBER

C-1A "COD" TRANSPORT

MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-21

GRUMMAN F9F-P PANTHER

PV-2 HARPOON

LOCKHEED F-104G STARFIGHTER

PBY-5A CATALINA waiting for restoration...

F-117 NIGHTHAWK undergoing restoration...

BOEING B-17 HIGH ALTITUDE LONG RANGE BOMBER 

Rear view...

NORTH AMERICAN AT-6 TEXAN (Known as a Harvard in Canada) under restoration...

The following were on display in front of the museum...

GRUMMAN A-6E INTRUDER

McDONNELL DOUGLAS F-18 HORNET

MIG-17

McDONNELL DOUGLAS A-4 SKYHAWK

There was much more to see and read but the girls were done and ready to pick me up. Great afternoon!

This one I didn't see until we were leaving the museum...

GENERAL DYNAMICS F-16 FIGHTING FALCON

Wednesday...and our last full day here! Bummer! Allison and I headed off for a final Costco shop. We were home around noon, and after lunch Steve and I went to the pool one final time. Earl and Allison joined us a little later after they got back from another shopping trip.

Earl cooked us a delicious chicken curry for dinner....

Thursday morning we had the truck all packed up by about 10:00 and then decided to take one final walk around the resort. After checking out, we hit the road east and had an uneventful drive home, make one final stop at Albertson's in Blythe to pick up the last of the groceries needed.

We arrived back in Q just after 2:00...and then the fun of unloading and putting away got started! Thank goodness for Earl's pickup...we were fully loaded, including groceries on the floor by our feet!

Such a wonderful week away...and a nice change! We might have to do it next January too!