Planes on a Pole.

[rahill]

Re: Planes on a Pole.

Anybody else remember the concrete encased T-33 at a park in Campbell, Calif.? Wonder if it is still there?

I think you're thinking of the one in Los Gatos, CA (Oak Meadow Park) -- was closed off for years as "unsafe playground equipment" or some such. Now it's coated in some odd non-slip, not-as-hot-as-bare-aluminum stuff and open to the kids again. Looks really strange but at least it's still there.

Rich

[Mike51]

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An A4 and a F7 at opposite ends of Alameda naval air station. Both very nicely maintained, pictures next time I'm out there.

It's an A-7, not an F7! And there's another A-4 on Alameda, outside the local High School.

[Skyracer]

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There's a F101 VooDoo at the WANG headquarters, Camp Murray WA. Very nicely presented and well maintained (compete with nav lights on at night).

[BellCobraIV]

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Not on a pole, but on it's gear there is/was a P-51 outside the Air National Guard unit in Charleston, West Virginia. The West Virginia Air National Guard was the last USAF affiliate to operate the P-51 and the one in the Air Force Museum came from there. Now that should get extra find points being a Mustang, Eh?

[Propellerhead]

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It's an A-7, not an F7! And there's another A-4 on Alameda, outside the local High School.

And the school's mascot is - most appropriately - "the Jets."

[wyhdah]

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Not on a pole, but on it's gear there is/was a P-51 outside the Air National Guard unit in Charleston, West Virginia. The West Virginia Air National Guard was the last USAF affiliate to operate the P-51 and the one in the Air Force Museum came from there. Now that should get extra find points being a Mustang, Eh?

That's right John and I mentioned in my first post it wasn't required to be on a pole. Extra points given.

Thanks for the history as well.

[speeddemon]

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There's a F101 VooDoo at the WANG headquarters, Camp Murray WA. Very nicely presented and well maintained (compete with nav lights on at night).

Not to mention the mannquins in the cockpit.

That's one of the former CAF 409 Squadron Voodoo's.

[Shawn Aro]

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Hey Leo, no that T-33 isnt at that park in Campbell any more havent been there in years when i was 7 i went to school there in campbell for a summer and my Mom took me and my bro there and we would play in it. really neat Shawn

[Leo]

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I hav'nt been down there in at leas 12 years. Took some pics of it but they are in the general picture boxes and who knows where. There was a pic of it in AC a few years ago. What struck me was the fact that it was completely covered in gunite, with a little seating area made in the cockpit area.
When I was a kid, early 60's, we used to spend summers at a cabin near Big Bear, I think the town was Fawnskin. They had a T-33 at the local park. We used to play in and on it for hours. Times have changed for safety of things like that. It was full of junk, sharp edges, etc. I have scars from playing on that thing. It was heavily vandalized then so I'm sure it is long gone.

[Shawn Aro]

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also there is a memoral of 2 T-33 pilots that went down in Freemont they were enroute to Aleameda. Shawn

[Magdrop]

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57th fighter group restaurant PDK airport near Atlanta

[Skyracer]

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Not to mention the mannquins in the cockpit.

Mannequins??? Nope, they're leftover fighter pilots that refused to go into tankers when the 141st changed missions. Two more years and they get their retirement.

[AirDOGGe]

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Anybody else remember the concrete encased T-33 at a park in Campbell, Calif.? Wonder if it is still there?

I think you're thinking of the one in Los Gatos, CA (Oak Meadow Park) -- was closed off for years as "unsafe playground equipment" or some such. Now it's coated in some odd non-slip, not-as-hot-as-bare-aluminum stuff and open to the kids again. Looks really strange but at least it's still there.

Rich

Hey Leo, no that T-33 isnt at that park in Campbell any more havent been there in years when i was 7 i went to school there in campbell for a summer and my Mom took me and my bro there and we would play in it. really neat Shawn

Could you be speaking of the same plane?

In the early 70's I recall a small park where Hamilton Ave crosses over Highway 17 (880) that had a jet in it, but I cannot recall what type of plane it was. but it could have been a T-33. I think that park location fell in Campbell's city limits. It was only a couple of miles up the freeway from the park in Los Gatos.

That Campbell park is gone today, replaced by the parking lot of a Frys Electronics store. Shawn, could that be the jet in Campbell you are referring to? I was just in Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos 2 summers ago, and the T-33 was still there.

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I can't find any info of the defunct Campbell park, but the following link takes you to a PDF slideshow of the park in Los Gatos, of which the 3rd photo offers a glimpse of the right side of their T-33, complete with lots of children having a ball playing on it...

http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?id=158189

Data from a Los Gatos-related website:

The T-33 in Oak Meadow Park is on loan to the town of Los Gatos by the United States Air Force, where it has been in the playground since 1974. The plane was originally delivered to the Air Force in 1954.

[Shawn Aro]

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yes that is the park i havent been down there in years so i dont know what down there looks like the plane? Shawn

[Shawn Aro]

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it was about 1975 when me and my brother played on it