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Photos: Night Wings at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson
- Kelly Presnell
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Visitors got the chance to see Pima Air & Space Museum's aircraft under a different light, with the evening sunset and monsoon clouds over Night Wings on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
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Zarion Queen, left, Zayden Queen and Justice Himbrick look over a Sepecat Jaguar GR.1 fighter/bomber on display under the monsoon clouds over Pima Air & Space Museum during Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022. Night Wings returned to the museum's schedule for the first time since 2019 and this session included dragsters on display courtesy of Tucson Dragway and 520 FVP's drone racing demonstration as well an evening with the aircraft.
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The sunsets behind a Boeing EB-47E Stratojet on the display line outside at Pima Air & Space Museum during Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Kenzie Jones reassembles the nose of her junior dragster, one of several race cars on display from Tucson Dragway for Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A mockup of a cockpit and pilot for Pima Air & Space Museum's Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird is part of the Hangar 1 planes on regular display, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Jimmy Kelso polishes up the rims on his dragster, Shutterbug, getting is ready for the Tucson Dragway display for Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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An F/A 18 Hornet, in Navy Blue Angels colors, left, and a Douglas A4D Skyhawk stand side-by-side at Pima Air & Space Museum just before the doors open for the evening's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A Chevy Corvette dragsters comes into Hangar 1, one of the dozen dragsters, racing bikes and cars on display from Tucson Dragway for Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Visitors stroll by several exhibits near the entrance, including a Curtis F6C Hawk, bottom, as the doors open for Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A display showing the flight gear for an Imperial Japanese Army pilot stands near a Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi in Hangar 4 at the Pima Air & Space Museum just before the start of Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A visitor looks over a Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star in front of a Convair B-36J Peacemaker during the early doing of the Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Bill Zachar takes advantage of Night Wings to get photos of the setting sun backlighting a monsoon cloud dumping rain behind the aircraft on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Visitors get a look at the Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star under monsoon clouds for Pima Air & Space Museum's Night Wings, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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Pima Air & Space Museum Consolidated B-24 Liberator stands on display in Hangar 3 just before the evening's Night Wings session, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A Boeing B-29 Superfortress is one of the aircraft on exhibit in Hangar 4 at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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A Curtis P-40 Warhawk, a PB4Y, a P-39 Airacobra and B-25 Mitchell are exhibited in Hangar 5 at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Ariz., July 23, 2022.
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