Re: Marana Pinal åpnet for publikum
Detta låter lovande ! Själv hade jag förmånen vid flera tillfällen under 1970/1980-talen att besöka Marana och träffa Arnold "Schnozz" Mayer , mycket trevlig man som alltid tog hand om oss entusiaster. Tyvärr dog "Schnozz" och möjligheten att besöka Marana upphörde men ingen glömmer hans american car!
"For those who don't know, A.E. "Schnozz" Meyer, - a really great guy who chain smoked, God rest his soul - used to drive photographers around the Evergreen Air Center in a huge old car. He'd not get out of the car during the tour, so it gradually filled up with smoke as the tour progressed, but he was usually happy for photographers to walk alongside the car after he'd given his customary warning about the snakes!!! Schnozz always claimed that the P-2 Neptune was the best aircraft ever built (woe betide anyone who disagreed), and he was also a huge fan of Indy racing.
Sadly, access to Pinal Air Park/Marana slowly ground to a halt after Schnozz passed away. There was another lady - Veronica - who did tours in a van for a short while, but they soon stopped. The security associated with the special forces "training" that goes on there (we were encouraged not to get some "dodgy" buildings over the far side of the field in the background of the photos), the cost of running the tours after they became more and more popular, and airlines getting irritated about pictures of their aeroplanes in less than pristine condition appearing in books and magazines and the internet, killed off the access."
