On the way back from my brother's Saxaphone Recital for Graduation Credit of Doom (tm) (in which he also got to debut a saxaphone quartet piece he wrote named after an extinct giant sloth, so yes, it does run in the family in case you were wondering) I stopped in at the Boeing Air Museum. I haven't been there in a while, and they have added a bunch of airplanes.
I got to seesome of my favorites and some I hadn't seen before:
An SR-71, An F-14 Tomcat, A concorde (which gave me blunt force head trauma twice), a Harrier Jump jet (and a flying one the day before!) My all time favorite, the P-38L Lightning, a Russian LI2-Stumochavic ground attack plane(sp?), A B-47, the old Air Force One, the very first ever 747, The dreaded flying car, a bunch more WW-I and WW-II era aircraft, an Appolo module, A luner lander that never flew (the wheels were made out of chicken wire! There is chicken wire on the moon!) and all sorts of other fun airplane stuff.
so, yeah. That.
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I got to see the SR-71 land once at an air show as a young'un and a dreamed of being it's pilot for years. Sounds like a great museum, might have to get up there one of these days.
Recital is too close to Rectal.
MentalFrog wrote:
Recital is too close to Rectal.
Once Upon a Time, my English Professor was rattling off a long series of words off the top of his head and asking for their definitions.
"Rectify"
"A contraction of ****** and Sanctify. It is what Catholic Priests do to little boys"
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Aaaaaaaaand it's gone!!
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One day I'm going to fly to Canada and open the curtains in your office.
For those that are ever in the area, one of the highest rated, but least visited museums is the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY.
I don't know why the visitation rate is so low (okay, I do... Long Islanders are usually more interested in their tan than learning or thinking), but when my wife and I went there were so few visitors that we had our own personal guide through each section of the museum. The guides are incredibly knowledgeable about the various exhibits, and many of them are actually the people that built the craft on display (like the lunar lander). If you are at all interested in aviation and its history, and are in the NYC area, its well worth a trip out to Garden City for the visit.
I don't know why the visitation rate is so low (okay, I do... Long Islanders are usually more interested in their tan than learning or thinking), but when my wife and I went there were so few visitors that we had our own personal guide through each section of the museum. The guides are incredibly knowledgeable about the various exhibits, and many of them are actually the people that built the craft on display (like the lunar lander). If you are at all interested in aviation and its history, and are in the NYC area, its well worth a trip out to Garden City for the visit.
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