Titan Missile museum

[kryptosdaddy]

Somewhere near Phoenix AZ. Parents went there a couple of weeks ago to visit my step dad's Mom. Gary is a radio and Astronomy nut so visiting this place was natural...

Wish he had taken a pic of the exhaust cone ^^^

Some radio antenna he went nuts over ^^^

Silo ^^^

Silo interior ^^^ they had to wear hard hats in here.

Launch control ^^^

Spacesuits on the rack ^^^

Finally my step dad at the controls ^^^ showing his solution to the Majors for not letting Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame.

All in all I think it was a good tour, hope someone finds something here that is interesting. Be good CR

 

[moon puppy]

I did a tour once in an active one. Can't tell anyone, wasn't suppose to be there...Shhhhh...

I think the suits were for fueling.

 

[kryptosdaddy]

Fueling? That makes sense, Andromeda Strain came to mind here.

Emergency station? ^^^

Silo^^ again..

And something else from below ^^^^


You guys from SC/NC- remember Florence had the air and missle museum out on 301?

 

[moon puppy]

You guys from SC/NC- remember Florence had the air and missle museum out on 301?

YES!!! I loved that place. We would alway stop by there on the way to or from the beach. They had an old C 124 out there and they would open the nose and tail. Can't remember everything they had there. What year did they dismantled it? That C124 is sitting at Charleston AFB now.

 

[kryptosdaddy]

Seen this? This is ironically, a tourists view of that place- i havn't found a local...

http://www.coastcomp.com/av/florence/florence.htm

grew up in Flotown, I remember going to this museum back in the early 70's.

 

[moon puppy]

I have seen that site, shame they closed the museum. I can't believe they burned the Connie!

 

[mikec]

Greetings to all;


Bob,


Attic Aircraft makes a quarter scale Atlas, Titian II, and other ICBMs

.... To get one you have to... :pp

1. Write him a nice letter, and may-haps be... you will catch him on a good
day.

2. you will have to bid on them on e-bay. This is the normal way he sells
his produces. It is good for him, but quite frankly, I think it sucks.

He makes his resin models in batches, so you may have a delay getting what
you want. *** unless it is one of the items, he has listed for auction ***,
then there will be no delay after you send him the money. For this he
is set Io to use pay-pal. Although sense I have known him for a number of
years, and bought many of his products, I talk him into a fixed price,
and then send him a MO. The guy is a little fickle.... but he does make
some great resin model kits.

I have the Redstone with a mercury capsule. I also have The Atlas lifting
body, with the Mercury capsule.The Titan II is one of my favorites, of
course I have the Gemini capsule on this one. To complete the scenario
there are several versions of the Saturn V on the market.......














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mike
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[kryptosdaddy]

I have seen that site, shame they closed the museum. I can't believe they burned the Connie!

Bob I was living at the Beach when they began chopping that place up- everytime i would come home something else would be gone! This was early 90's. By the time I left Florence in 1990, the museum had stopped growing and had begun to implode, my favorite, the B-47 was sent to GA where it was remothballed.

Someone had mentioned the interior of the 47 had rotted out and this was true of most of the stuff there, just no money to keep it going. I'm glad that as a kid I lived in Florence and saw that place in its salad days back in the early 70's. They had an open house about the time the first Star Wars movie came out, they opened up most of the aircraft and began plans to expand the museum but something happened, a death or whatever...just plain sad. :vmad