Hawthorne Ordnance Museum

[morrcarr67]

I came across some pictures I took there a few years ago. I liked this RC helicopter:


This is the controller; I think it needs to be a bit smaller:

Yup, defiantly not hand held.

[aghauler]

[QUOTE=morrcarr67;8235101]They had some pretty cool things on the outside



Great photos! We go through Hawthorne several times a year but usuallu very early so we've never gotten into the museum. I finally figured out what those R2D2 looking things are, they're mines I think. I never noticed the box they sit on or the lettering on that box. I guess you missed the long naval rifle barrel laying on the ground on the north side of town. There is an entrance there on the west side of 395 into one of the areas and just south of that entrance there is one barrel left. 10 years ago there were quite a few more. Course if you stopped to take photos there it might make somebody a little nervous. These would have been mounted in gun turrets aboard ship, at least I've never seen an open mount with barrels THAT long. Again great photos! BB

[morrcarr67]

Great photos! We go through Hawthorne several times a year but usuallu very early so we've never gotten into the museum. I finally figured out what those R2D2 looking things are, they're mines I think. I never noticed the box they sit on or the lettering on that box. I guess you missed the long naval rifle barrel laying on the ground on the north side of town. There is an entrance there on the west side of 395 into one of the areas and just south of that entrance there is one barrel left. 10 years ago there were quite a few more. Course if you stopped to take photos there it might make somebody a little nervous. These would have been mounted in gun turrets aboard ship, at least I've never seen an open mount with barrels THAT long. Again great photos! BB

Yup, those are mines.

The museum had part of a barrel there. About 8 or 9 feet outside and about 3.5 feet inside. If you look at the first picture in post #3 you will see it sitting on some wood blocks in front of the mines.

Momma told me that for $500 I could buy I think a 1 or 2 inch section.

[aghauler]

Yup, those are mines.

The museum had part of a barrel there. About 8 or 9 feet outside and about 3.5 feet inside. If you look at the first picture in post #3 you will see it sitting on some wood blocks in front of the mines.

Momma told me that for $500 I could buy I think a 1 or 2 inch section.

Ah yes, I missed it the first time I looked at the photos. And the projectiles are in front of the Barrel section. Outside the Mare Island Museum there is the rear section of I think an 8" naval rifle, the last 6 feet or so and it includes the breech mechanizim. It looks like it was hacked of with a jack hammer.
Tonopah has a couple of interesting museums as well, the mining history complex on the East side of 395 and the County Museum on the west side of 395. Until I visited the County museum I didn't know Tonopah was an Army Air Corp Training field, first for P39's then they switched to heavy bombers. I actually worked with a couple of fireman (twin brothers) that were gunners in B24's. One a tail gunner the other a ball turret gunner, they trained at Tonopah.

[Fate]

Cool museum and I think I'll have to take my son on a trip to Costa Mesa to find that jet!