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Museum of Glass and Museum of Flight

Museum of Glass

Museum of Flight


Lockheed Constellation


President Nixon greeting Premier Zhou Enlai in China.


Corsair Fighter

A local resident near Palomar College (John Tashjian) flew a corsair in the South Pacific during World War 2. He is also an internationally famous reptile photographer who attended some of my lectures at Palomar College. He travelled to zoos throughout the world photographing reptiles, including highly venomous snakes. In fact, his beautiful photos appear in many books on reptiles. John recently passed at age 101.

B-29 bomber armed with 12 Browning 50 caliber machine guns. While looking for ants, I found many casings & 3-ring belt links from this famous gun in the Colorado Desert where General Patton once trained. The gun turrets on B-29 were remotely controlled; however in the earlier B-17 the turrets were manned by gunners. According to a turret gunner I met in Arizona several years ago, the ejected casings were very hot.

Old 50 caliber Browning Machine Gun (.50 BMG) casing (shell) and 50 caliber link found in the sand near harvester ant nests north of the Salton Sea. The steel links interlock and join the 50 caliber cartridges into a linked belt. The U.S. penny (one cent) is 19 mm (0.76 in) or about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. This was obviously a military training area many decades ago.

The 50 caliber cartridges were linked together and fed into the Browning Machine Gun. When each cartridge was fired, the casing and belt link separated and were ejected. This explains the presence of old rusted belt links in the sand.
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