Eglin's pre-Century birds

Eglin AFB's Armament Museum sure has some beautifual old jets parked outside.

This Lockheed T-33 trainer taught a whole new generation of pilots how to fly jets.

And Republic's swept-wing F-84 carved it's niche in early jet aviation history too as a fighter and a nuke bomb carrier.

But the classiest of the old classics just had to be the North American F-86 Sabre.

If I could have one, it's be this one. No question. Chuck Yeager described it as the jet that flew like a prop fighter, only faster.

And here's an old Northrop F-89 Scorpion. You don't see a lot of these anymore, even in museums.

So many planes there...and so little time...and too much daylight for me to get one on my trailer hitch and tow it off to Louisiana.