The Museums

Well day two. Dad and I went up to Victorville and visited the Route 66 museum there. Not a bad little place since we didn’t know a whole lot about Route 66. There also a museum in Texas in McLean Texas. Have to go there some time. Not a whole lot to report really. Saw items really associated with early time driving. Signs, maps, etc. Took some pictures outside the museum of Dad and I. Drove down Route 66 in Victorville for about a mile then headed back south towards home.

On the way home we decided to go to the Palm Springs WWII air museum. This was pretty cool. A lot better than I thought it was going to be. They had three hangers full of planes all but two that still actually flew. Some of the more notables were the B-17 G Flying Fortress, P47 D Thunderbolt, F6F Hellcat, MKXIV Spitfire, and P51 D Mustang as well as others. Out in front of the museum they had several fighter jets all Navy except for the F16 Falcon, but that was painted Navy colors and used as an aggressor at Top Gun. Inside they even had maps of the major battles of the Pacific and in Europe during WWII. Overall it was pretty cool. I also have to go back and get the playing cards they had. They had one set the showed the silhouettes of all of the planes in WWII as well as a set of cards that had the silhouettes of the war ships during the time period of WWI and WWII. Pretty cool huh! After that we came home and BBQ on my gas grill. OH YA. Chicken baby.

I had to put this picture in just to tease Armand. Although they do give props to the Falcon. And it has always been one of my favorate fighter jets.

I wanted to put this bad boy in here. It is the F6 Hell cat. It had the best kill ratio during WWII, 19-1 by the end of the war. and had the most total kills by the end of the war. 5,562 (or something like that.) Crazy numbers. It was the fighter to fly.