Visiting the WASP Museum - part 2

Our Friday visit to the National WASP Museum continued...

We then went over into Hanger 2 where there were four planes displayed that were of the same vintage as the WASP trainers and which have been restored and still fly today. I, unfortunately, didn't get the names and descriptions, but found some on the website (https://www.waspmuseum.org/aircraft/) -- more information about each plane can be found there too.

Boeing Stearman PT-17 “Kaydet”
Primary Trainer

North American AT-6 “Texan”
Basic Trainer

Cessna UC-78 “Bamboo Bomber”
Advanced Trainer

Vultee BT-13 “Vultee Vibrator”
Basic Trainer

There were exhibits in hanger 2 also...

Carl and I both noticed this one -- our friend, Bob, used to love spending $2 bills (mainly because it confounded the cashiers who didn't have a place to put it in their cash register and some didn't even think it was legal tender). We called his wife, Laura, to tell her that we were reminded of Bob at the WASP museum and to suggest that Mesa could have determined Bob's impact on their economy by checking on the flow of $2 bills!

Some stories of the unintended impacts of women being trained as pilots...

Some examples of the uniforms

Jobs after the WASP training was completed:

Use of Jeeps to guide aircraft

Example of a Jeep of the era

Link trainer -- Carl remembers that his high school had one of these -- WWII era -- they used it in the 1970s!

We were so glad that we had booked this Harvest Host stay. We were concerned that we might get there too late to be able to tour the museum since it closed at 5pm, but we got there at about 2:30pm and spent about 2 hours enjoying the museum!