My work is located on the former McClellan Air Force Base, a decommissioned USAF base located a handful of miles from downtown Sacramento. While the base was shuttered in 2001, McClellan Airfield is open for civilian use, and houses, among other things, planes for the California Department of Forestry, which used to go by the acronym CDF but now is called CalFire, for some reason (apparently that’s… shorter to say than CDF? I have no idea.)
Anyway, I finally got around to bringing my camera with me and going to take pictures of the planes, just because I find most modes of transportation quite fascinating (hence my minor obsession with trains that a few people have commented on.)
I spent a long time trying to figure out how to crop this one, and then gave up. You’re just going to have to settle for the panoramic shot. Horrible, I know. Sorry about how weird it makes the page’s formatting–you’ll just have to click on it to go to Flickr and see the whole thing.
CalFire planes on the tarmac at McClellan Field.
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[Hums] “One of these things is not like the other; one of these things doesn’t belong…”
Hangars at McClellan Airfield.
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