The Palm Springs Air Museum

	When it is too chilly to sit by the pool, Palm Springs has plenty of other things to do. The airport here was a base during World War II and there is a lot of history. Within view of the current modern terminal building is a display of aircraft from another time...
	The Palm Springs Air Museum is passed by thousands of travelers and no one ever stops to look. We never had either but today was the perfect day. In their ramp area they had a PBY Flying Boat and a B17 parked among smaller fighter planes.
	Here is a Navy fighter, it still had a tailhook for carrier landings.
	Here's the cockpit for a Corsair, nothing but the basics here. You had to be pretty small to fit into these things.
	The B17 looks large, shiny and menacing.
	A lot of the planes had "nose art", this one is named after the current owner's granddaughter.
	Inside the hangar was "the invader",
	and Bob's Bear.
	Check out the maximum crew weight painted next to the nose art on this plane. 200 lbs. if you weighed more, you were grounded.
	The P-51 mustang with the traditional teeth along the nose makes it look fierce.
	This P-51 has wooden plugs shoved into the exhaust to protect it from dust. Most of these planes are operable and are flown every other weekend.
	Here are a couple of the guys that piloted these planes when the planes were new and they were young. They saved democracy for several generations. Thanks for the good work fellas!