{"id":16302,"date":"2026-10-07T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:20:17","slug":"skywatch-friday-new-aircraft-at-the-tulsa-air-and-space-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16302","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – New Aircraft at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few weeks ago, I found myself at the north side of the Tulsa International Airport and I noticed that the Tulsa Air and Space Museum<\/strong><\/a> had several new aircraft on their parking display so I checked it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"A-10<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First up is the iconic A-10 Thunderbolt, or “Warthog.” A legendary warplane built for ground support. It has a high speed cannon that runs almost the entire length of the plane and is designed as a tank killer. It has been around for decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\""Gruman<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Second up is Gruman Gulfstream II-B\/ G-1159B Halo II. A modified civilian aircraft designed for research the US Missile Defense Agency. You know, secret spy type stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"1965<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And third is a 1965 North American Rockwell NA-265-40 Sabreliner. A pilot named Bob Hoover flew this. He is famous in aviation circles for being the best pilot in aviation history. Here is his Wikipedia Listing<\/strong><\/a>. Talk about great stories in his wikipedia. My favorite is that he was taken prisoner by the Germans in World War II. He escaped and found his way to a German airfield and then took off on one of the planes and flew to Holland and landed inside allied lands. They should make a movie about that but nobody would believe him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Tulsa<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enough with the museum. I drove closer to the airport to check out the new control tower being built. Above is the existing 1959 vintage control tower. Looks kind of cute doesn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Senator<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So just turned about 45 degrees to my left and took a photo, with the same magnification, of the new tower. Wow is wow is what I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Senator<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here it is magnified a little bit. It is huge. Looks like about seven stories tall at the top of the tower. What, are they selling condos? It is ginormous. Ginormous is a word in Oklahoma. We are easily impressed. What can I say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few weeks ago, I found myself at the north side of the Tulsa International Airport and I noticed that the Tulsa Air and Space Museum had several new aircraft on their parking display so I checked it out. First up is the iconic A-10 Thunderbolt, or “Warthog.” A legendary warplane built for ground support. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1271,4145],"class_list":["post-16302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-tulsa-international-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16303,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/16303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}