Relative decided to honor a crash site with a flag. A4? F4? they told me but I can't remember.



And there's big spiders out there too:

Some weird stuff out there.

Enjoy!

My relative is a bit of a desert rat. Always seems to run across oddball stuff (odd for us normal folks, not for desert hermits that made it)

Sand, cactus?

Cacti*

Should go visit Wabi...you could walk on artic tundra in AZ.

Scary

We have a couple of notable crash sites in the Central Oregon desert, Christmas Valley area.

P-38 Lightning, went down in 1945

A-6 Intruder, went down in 1973

There's a B-24 in the Steens too, I think.

One of these days I'm gonna take a few days and camp out in Christmas Valley and hike out to the P-38 and A-6. From what I've read, the debris field from the Intruder is quite a large area and takes a bit more looking.



Not much in the way of cactuses though.

Sort of related, recall the WW2 Japanese balloon bomb that killed 6 near Bly, Oregon in Klamath County.
And the Oregon desert certainly does have cactus! I know.. not like Arizona, but still..

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Might find Hunter Biden Cooking Meth in the AZ desert....

A B52 north of Riley Or. Early low level flight test.

I love the desert. Some buddies and I go up to Nevada every couple of years and bum around.

Hard to tell but it kinda looks like one side of the horizontal stabilator of an F-4.

you are probably correct as I believe that's what my relative told me, but that was awhile ago.

I had a father in law that made saguaro skeleton furniture. He was a prickly sort of guy.

Used to find old whiskey bottles up in the northern desert of Nevada. A few brought in some goodly amounts of coin too. I did a day ike up to where the posse and Wild Buch shot it out after robbing the bank in Winnemcca. Struck a good one as i found an 1899 Savage in .303 savage. Still had ammo in the magazine. Metal was in remarkably good shape but the wood was literally all gone. The gun was a take down model. I like the .303 Savage BTW but AFAIK, Winchester is the only one making any and runs are very few and very very far apart. I run a 190 gr. cast bullet in the 30-30 load to about 1900 PS which make it a clone of the .303 Sav. The Arizona desert is a whole different class of landscape.
PJ