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Gibfender posted:I've pencilled in all of these, thanks. This is the honeymoon so i'm sure the wife will be thrilled... My wife was just giving me a little grief the other day about how long I spent doing a tour of the USS Missouri while she was stuck at the gift shop. It didn't occur to me at the time but that was during our honeymoon and it was over 10 years ago. You have been warned. Does anyone have any recommendations of air museums or similar anywhere in North America which are somehow co-located with something else your average wife might like, or have a really good mall or day spa nearby or something?  Maybe if I do two of those for every one where I have to rush around while she's staring at her phone I'll get away with it?
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Buttcoin purse posted:My wife was just giving me a little grief the other day about how long I spent doing a tour of the USS Missouri while she was stuck at the gift shop. It didn't occur to me at the time but that was during our honeymoon and it was over 10 years ago. You have been warned. Of course you've got the Air & Space in DC (the Udvar Hazy Annex is amazing but it's on its own), with the Metro offering her the ability to hit Pentagon City or Penn Quarter for pretty much any food she might ever care to eat or try, as well as the International Spy Museum in close proximity (the tickets/'experiences' are semi-pricey). The Intrepid in NYC, which should be pretty self-explanatory as to what she could get up to there... ...I can't think of anything she could get up to in Dayton for the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson other than you buying her a ticket to someplace fun and *you* go there on your own.
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For people who's browser can translate, I found a huge multi-part series on the B-36, in Hungarian. e: dude has assembled a great series of photos, even if the auto-translation is putting you aside. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Of course you've got the Air & Space in DC (the Udvar Hazy Annex is amazing but it's on its own), with the Metro offering her the ability to hit Pentagon City or Penn Quarter for pretty much any food she might ever care to eat or try, as well as the International Spy Museum in close proximity (the tickets/'experiences' are semi-pricey). The Intrepid in NYC, which should be pretty self-explanatory as to what she could get up to there... Lol women don't do things by themselves.
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Captain Apollo posted:Lol women don't do things by themselves. Of course not, the hive mind is always with them. Or the person in a relationship actually knows how to deal with differing interests.
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Jesus Christ goons unless your new wife is also seriously into it DON'T DO NERD poo poo ON YOUR HONEYMOON. Do honeymoon stuff on your honeymoon. Archer posted:Woman: "Oh. My. God. I can't believe I just did that. You know, I'm not like that, I don't just--"
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My uncle lost his DJI in the ocean (eaten by a freak wave) and his home&contents insurance covered it. His accidental breakage premiums are probably higher than $250pa though. (Amazingly some tourists found it a few months later. He asked them to mail him the SD card and told them to keep the DJI (probably worthless) and the GoPro (still worked.)
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Buttcoin purse posted:My wife was just giving me a little grief the other day about how long I spent doing a tour of the USS Missouri while she was stuck at the gift shop. It didn't occur to me at the time but that was during our honeymoon and it was over 10 years ago. You have been warned. The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida is one of the best air museums in the country, and is half an hour from one of the best beaches in the country, Wifes like beaches. Plus tons and tons of tourist shopping crap, and not too far from the Gulf Shores Zoo where you can pet baby tigers for like 50$ an hour (call ahead, they don't always have baby tigers, but if they do, worth your money. Otherwise, they have lemur, sloth, and kangaroo encounters, which are much cheaper and a reasonable consolation prize for many wifes). Also some pretty decent hiking and history stuff. Not Unimaginably far from New Orleans, but probably more than a day-trip.
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Slo-Tek posted:Not Unimaginably far from New Orleans, but probably more than a day-trip. If you get an early enough start, it's definitely day-trippable.
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kill me now posted:Jesus Christ goons I've never had a girlfriend and even I know that poo poo.
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I'm on my honeymoon now and she accompanied me to the National Transport and Toy Museum, New Zealand Air Force museum, let me take a aerobatic flight in a Victa Airtourer, went to a couple maritime museums and Sunday we're both taking our own Evo for a spin at Rally Drive NZ. Sorry for your bad luck guys.
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Vitamin J posted:I'm on my honeymoon now and she accompanied me to the National Transport and Toy Museum, New Zealand Air Force museum, let me take a aerobatic flight in a Victa Airtourer, went to a couple maritime museums and Sunday we're both taking our own Evo for a spin at Rally Drive NZ. Sorry for your bad luck guys. Oh man, you almost had it but then you went and posted on somethingawful.com on your honeymoon.
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Gosh, if only my wife didn't suck.
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Man faces $9000 (AU) fine for using quadrocopter to pick up sausage
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Can confirm the naval aviation museum is the tits. Even my wife liked it (it wasn't on our honeymoon, tho)
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I met my wife at an airshow 
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For a second I thought it was insurance from drones.  Vitamin J posted:I'm on my honeymoon now and she accompanied me to the National Transport and Toy Museum, New Zealand Air Force museum, let me take a aerobatic flight in a Victa Airtourer, went to a couple maritime museums and Sunday we're both taking our own Evo for a spin at Rally Drive NZ. Sorry for your bad luck guys. drat, this guy is a bad-rear end.
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Oops. https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/797052811842351105/photo/1
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vessbot posted:I met my wife at an airshow Truly the promised land.
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My wife is an actual airplane 
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Did someone say anthromorphic airplane pregnancy? I can't bring myself to post it. Someone more deplorable can do the honors.
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um excuse me posted:Did someone say anthromorphic airplane pregnancy? Beautiful Human
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Finger Prince posted:My wife is an actual airplane So that's you? Moon Slayer posted:Good news! I finally remembered the name of the author's previous webcomic!
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Jealous Cow posted:Beautiful This includes civilian air so don't forget the big beautiful wingspan crowd.
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Cat Mattress posted:So that's you? I uhhhh... 
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My money is on the plucky underdog tow truck.
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Crikey, I think the runway could do with a sweep... https://youtu.be/RYVsotySupE Edit- someone help me properly embed a YT clip! I've followed the instructions and used the video tags but it still showed as a link! 
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monkeytennis posted:Crikey, I think the runway could do with a sweep... Holy poo poo! That was a heck of a video. Also, if you try pasting the whole "real" url and not the shortened version, it is automatically turned into video link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYVsotySupE
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block51 posted:
Thanks I did wonder where I was going wrong! 
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C-5s are pretty nuts Here's a good short field departure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1q46TmZ9T0 The best part is the classic C-5 circumstances, as explained in the comments quote:AFAIK, it was empty. They landed at KBFI because the runway at their planned destination (KTCM) was unavailable. After landing at KBFI they experienced mechanical problems and the airplane stayed there for several days awaiting repairs. In the meantime a convoy of trucks arrived from McChrod to offload what was rumored to be some sort of munitions. post the c-5est thing u got
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Prop Wash posted:post the c-5est thing u got 
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monkeytennis posted:Crikey, I think the runway could do with a sweep... Isn't that what they're doing?
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Prop Wash posted:post the c-5est thing u got  A C-5 in its natural state.
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Party Plane Jones posted:
Guys, I'm concerned.
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Duke Chin posted:C-5's without that weird buzzy-chunky noise on the old engines just seems wrong. Well, the engines on the new models are more powerful and more fuel efficiWAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfOGG_4iS4o&t=219s
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TF39s  The engine that legit looks like something that should power a podracer and for  scale:
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Caution, aircraft crossing (Swedish Air Force SIGINT Canberra, think the airfield is Barkarby which is now long closed)
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