Arc Light posted:

After an already impressive part 1, my Satan continues to deliver.

Here's Part 2!



A book of macabre curios, and souvenirs from around the NCR area - including Old Bay which is legally mandatory for gifts from Virginia and Maryland. I should have taken a photo of the other side of the mug, but I left it at my office so I'll edit it in tomorrow. The mug is from the National Air & Space Museum, with a bomber on the other side. Not just any bomber, but a Martin B-26 Marauder currently mid-restoration at the museum's Udvar-Hazy Center**, which holds the record for the number of bombing missions survived during WWII in the US Army Air Forces. The side you can see, "FLAK_BAIT," is the plane's nose art. It's also about twice the size of a normal mug, so maybe I'll finally get through an hour long meeting on a single mug of coffee.

Extremely rad.

Thanks, Wingnut Ninja!

Edit: I visited the Udvar-Hazy Center on a TDY a couple of years ago. Flak Bait didn't ring any bells, but I was definitely in the restoration hangar, so I had a thought to go digging through my photos...



ZOOM. ENHANCE.



Good lord, that's a lot of dropped bombs. Nose art is pretty spot on for the mug.

Editing yet again, because even though the name didn't ring a bell, I'd swear I'd seen the nose art elsewhere and lo and behold...

One of the bombers at my old base, Barksdale AFB, is Flak-Bait II, complete with accurate (but tiny) nose art.