On Mar 9, 10:16*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:01:12 GMT, Steve wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:20:41 -0500, John H.
wrote:

And you can see one of those up close at the new Air and Space Museum!

I was just there. *Here's a few pics of the SR-71 they have the

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sss_udv...81139456/show/

It's a tough place to photograph since it's kind of dark in a lot of
areas. *If you're interested in seeing more pics from there, here they
a

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sss_udvar_hazy/show/

These pictures capture only a small percentage of what's there. *It's
well worth the trip for any aviation buff.

If you are ever in New England, a must see if you are into aircraft is
the New England Air Museum in East Granby, CT at Bradley
International.

http://www.neam.org/exhibits/collections.asp

Some really interesting aircraft and engines there - mostly restored
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Wow, that sparks some weird memories. I was fresh out of high school
and I took a night job there as a guard at the ANG base. We were
trouble makers to say the least, lucky we are not all in jail I used
to let my buds in at night and we would sit up on top of the Quanset
building they had there and get plastered and watch the planes come
and go. Then when we were sufficiently, er, um, crocked, we would go
down and take out the plane haulers carts, forget what they called
them, and race around the parking lots and north side of the airport
I am pretty sure the mechanics knew, but they never said anything,
guess it was hard to find someone to do the job. There was this high
brass, don't remember his rank, that was stationed at Westover and
stayed down at the chopper base sometimes. I had to wake him at 5 am.
There was a special broom next to the door and I was warned by him and
a couple other guys, in fact I would say more trained to come quietly
into the room and sweep his feet with the broom, as soon as he sat up
or stirred I was to back out of the room quickly. I trusted these guys
and even though I figured they could be fooling, I did it the way they
told me to. Damn if the guy did not wake up swinging, just like they
said, every time. All they told me was "he was in Nam". I never asked
beyond that, thanks to all you vets...that's all I gotta' say.