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aithneI spent last weekend about 30 miles from the Mexican border, in southern Arizona. My dad used to work out at Fort Huachuca as a contractor when I was but a wee pup, and we drove onto the base to take a peek around.
And lo and behold. they had one of his projects sitting out in a park!
This is a RC-12G Crazyhorse intelligence aircraft, aka Project Guardrail. My dad worked on a number of the systems for this one, most of them having to do with the intelligence-gathering parts of the planes. He did get to fly one during a test run, which he said was a lot of fun.
My dad's retired now, as is the RC-12G, but I don't think I've ever been that close to something he worked on before. His projects don't often make it into museums. (The other project he spent many years working on, the Quick Fix helicopter project, is still in use in the Middle East as far as I know.)
A few other pictures from the weekend (or go to the set to see more!):
My grandmother and all of her children--my mom's in the turquoise.
The Arizona dreamscape.
My cousin Ryan, messing around on his ATV after it rained for an hour.
And lo and behold. they had one of his projects sitting out in a park!
This is a RC-12G Crazyhorse intelligence aircraft, aka Project Guardrail. My dad worked on a number of the systems for this one, most of them having to do with the intelligence-gathering parts of the planes. He did get to fly one during a test run, which he said was a lot of fun.
My dad's retired now, as is the RC-12G, but I don't think I've ever been that close to something he worked on before. His projects don't often make it into museums. (The other project he spent many years working on, the Quick Fix helicopter project, is still in use in the Middle East as far as I know.)
A few other pictures from the weekend (or go to the set to see more!):
My grandmother and all of her children--my mom's in the turquoise.
The Arizona dreamscape.
My cousin Ryan, messing around on his ATV after it rained for an hour.
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Date: 2010-07-15 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-16 04:36 pm (UTC)The nose of the plane looks like an old Beechcraft.
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Date: 2010-07-16 04:41 pm (UTC)And it looks like the nose of an old Beechcrafy because the Crazyhorse planes were based on Beechcrafts. Well-spotted!
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:37 am (UTC)My dad was Air Force, and afterward worked at Boeing. He can tell the differences in model years between one aircraft and another; I'm not nearly so good, but I get lucky once in a while.