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iyaayas01 posted:I honestly can't think of anything better than Strategic Air and Space between Wyoming and Ohio...like I said, it's not a world-class museum in the US like Wright-Pat or the NASM/Udvar-Hazy, but it's still in the top tier of US museums, so if your travels are going to take you through NE I'd still budget at least half a day to a full day for the Strategic Air and Space museum. Depending on your travel plans, I'd plan on spending the night in Lincoln and then driving the half an hour to the museum, spending 4-6 hours there, and then spending the night in Omaha or maybe driving through to Des Moines depending on how much time you decide to spend at the museum. Omaha is going to have a lot more to offer from "things to do at night/dinner/bars/etc" than Des Moines but it's only another 30-45 minutes down the road from the museum so it's really only worth it if you spend 6+ hrs in the museum, otherwise timeline wise it probably makes more sense to drive on to Des Moines. Pepperjax is where it's at
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MrYenko posted:Worlds longest, most depressing fuel stop. Well, an emergency landing after a fire that burnt out most of the electrics, anyway... http://studysupport.info/vulcanbomber/goose_bay.htm
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FrozenVent posted:How the gently caress did a Vulcan end up in Goose Bay of all places? The RAF used Goose Bay extensively for cold weather training.
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SybilVimes posted:Well, an emergency landing after a fire that burnt out most of the electrics, anyway... I was going to guess that it made an emergency landing there and was a write off so they just built a museum around it. Surprised to find out I was right!
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Venusian Weasel posted:Just a head's up - Yellowstone is really, really crowded in the summer. If there's any animal larger than a chipmunk near the road, there will be a two mile traffic jam caused by people stopping in the middle of the road to take pictures. If you want to get a good view of Old Faithful, show up immediately after it erupts because the seating area fills up fast. If you wanna get souvenirs, watch out for the obnoxious, rude touristy types to cut in the miles-long checkout lines. Budget 2/3 of your time just for getting around the park. It's a beautiful place with fascinating stuff, don't get me wrong, but it's one of the most overcrowded national parks in the States. I went to Yellowstone in the middle of February and it was really nice. I highly recommend going in the winter.
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Speaking of aviation museums, I was in Hawaii last week for work and took some time to go to the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island. Nice museum, not a ton of planes but a pretty good spread between WW2, Korea, Vietnam and modern day, and more helicopters than I expected. I'll post some pics tonight.
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I apologize for the Facebook link. The sound of money leaping out of a guy's wallet: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10206548294656217&id=1536528996&_rdr
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Brovine posted:
Those have the nastiest interiors of any plane I've been on.
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MrYenko posted:I apologize for the Facebook link. Are props departing from the propshaft (or blades from the hub) rare enough that people feel comfortable standing beside the runway as a low wing twin prop makes a belly landing?
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MrYenko posted:I apologize for the Facebook link. I think this thread linked the video of this from the inside of the cockpit. If not this, something very similar.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Are props departing from the propshaft (or blades from the hub) rare enough that people feel comfortable standing beside the runway as a low wing twin prop makes a belly landing? A landing, sure. The subsequent power-up and take-off would have been a little nerve-rattling to stand near. 
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MrYenko posted:I apologize for the Facebook link. What in the gently caress did they use to take that video? That wasn't even potato quality.
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yes I'm two pages behind BUT: I don't get why all you people are recommending Air and Space on the Mall in DC in the same sentence as U-H. They're so far from the same class it boggles the mind. Maybe it's because I've been there 472,000 times but I think A&S is entirely skippable compared to Udvar-Hazy, which is not. I mean, sure, hit both if you can, but be honest about your priorities: if you're posting in this thread, U-H will be thousands of times better for you. Also seconding anyone from BC going to Flying Heritage Collection and Museum of Flight; Seattle's probably easy for you to get to and those two are pretty drat good. Not in the tier of U-H or the Air Force museum in Dayton, but then, nothing else on the continent is. e: oh man, visit Seattle on May 16. FHC is flying their P-47, F6F, and IL-2. Historic Flight Foundation and Cascade Warbirds are also putting planes up though I can't find out what. Psion fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Psion posted:yes I'm two pages behind BUT: Smithsonian still puts their best stuff on the Mall, if it fits. Especially the smaller historic planes like Spirit of St. Louis and the Bell X-1. And skipping the space stuff on the mall would be crazy. Udvar-Hazy space section is the Space Shuttle plus... some other stuff that wasn't good enough to go in the Mall building.
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smackfu posted:Smithsonian still puts their best stuff on the Mall, if it fits. Especially the smaller historic planes like Spirit of St. Louis and the Bell X-1. yeah, "if it fits" is the key phrase, because nothing fits in that building (which is funny considering how big it is, but seriously) also,  
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Psion posted:yeah, "if it fits" is the key phrase, because nothing fits in that building (which is funny considering how big it is, but seriously) 
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the skull and crossbones (or ... skull face and axes, I guess) on the engine pods just get me. Apparently their lead singer is a qualified 757 pilot so he flew that plane. That's pretty cool too. Same to you, buddy.
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Degree posted:Thanks, I might take you up on that. Yellowstone is spectacular, and worth sitting in some traffic for. No matter how crowded it is, if you get 20' away from the road or parking lot, you won't see another soul. Looking at various Yellowstone-DC routes, St. Louis is a cool town to spend a day or two in. The air-museum aspect is weak, considering they built well over 10,000 combat aircraft there from 1948-today, but there is some stuff. Some neat Mercury-Gemini stuff at the Science center, which is decent and free. You can grab lunch at the India Palace, it is an indian joint in a tiki-bar in the penthouse of a former howard johnson. Looks like a Mad Men set, food is decent, and the bay windows look out over Lambert Field, so you can watch F-15 and F-18 test and delivery flights (some days) as well as commercial traffic. Or if you are in town on a Friday or Saturday, you can get liquored up and climb through an enormous rebar, scrapped aircraft and repurposed industrial press climbing structure at the City Museum till midnight. 
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Psion posted:yes I'm two pages behind BUT: Besides, they're like what, a little over an hour apart? A&S is truly a world class facility and is so full of history it's  Any aero-freak has to see both if they are in the neighborhood of one. It's worth staying an extra day. Already mentioned, but Yellowstone is a disaster in the summer months. It's a must-see, but I like May (maybe early June) or Sept. I actually thought Devils Tower kind of sucked but Rushmore and the Black Hills was worth a stop. Little Big Horn (close to Billings) is sort of cool to see if you're in the neighborhood and history floats your boat.
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slidebite posted:Besides, they're like what, a little over an hour apart? A&S is truly a world class facility and is so full of history it's
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Hey that was at Boeing Field Clay Lacy last week. Ex Phoenix Coyotes charter. 
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I guess that's what you get when the RNZAF decommissioned it's A-4's and moved everyone over to transport?
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Psion posted:the skull and crossbones (or ... skull face and axes, I guess) on the engine pods just get me. Apparently their lead singer is a qualified 757 pilot so he flew that plane. That's pretty cool too. Yeah, Bruce Dickenson also "worked" for Astraeus, the airline they leased the plane from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dickinson#Aviation 
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New goal in life: be rich enough that you create a charter airline to fly for so you have something to do.
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Plane spotters: Three Britons to be released from UAE jail The last line in the article is: "While plane spotting is legal in the UAE, it is not widely understood."
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Nebakenezzer posted:The last line in the article is: Clearly not.
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Did someone say airframe parachutes?!My Local Hometown Rag posted:What started out as someone dumping an item from a weekend spring clean-up nearly turned into a disaster as a 25-year-old public works employee was injured Monday when a self-deploying parachute for an ultralight aircraft exploded.
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simplefish posted:
I know I said this the last time a stretched 757 was posted here but aaaa it keeps looking like it's bent to me.
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Eej posted:I know I said this the last time a stretched 757 was posted here but aaaa it keeps looking like it's bent to me. Looks straight to me??? 
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Eej posted:I know I said this the last time a stretched 757 was posted here but aaaa it keeps looking like it's bent to me. Looks kinda bent to me too 
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pik_d posted:Looks straight to me??? Someone needs to fly through a cold rain.
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I'm guessing there's a pretty severe limit to how much you can flare that thing on landing without smacking the tail into the pavement.
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