EP-3E Aries II

Pima Air & Space Museum Part 2

In this post I included a few of my favorite aircraft. This time they were not the giants such as the Boeing 747 or the B-52.

They were the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the Lockheed P-3 Orion.

The F-4 is only aircraft flown by both the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds. One of the museum’s F-4s is painted in the Thunderbird red, white, and blue livery and is No. 7.

This P-3 looks like it just came from the Boneyard and is now in the museum’s maintenance area waiting restoration work.

I have sketched and written about the Hunter: P-3 Orion. This was the airplane of my youth and I knew it by site and sound.

I was glad that the museum had a few of these wonderful aircrafts on display.

I found a bit of shade a sketch two versions of the Orion: the EP-3E Aries II and the P-3 awaiting restoration. I rendered the planes in a continuous-line sketch (featured sketch).