Stupid Guest Tricks

turkeyham wrote:Company D, 11 hours?

Turkeyham, love those long hrs! Will take them wherever/whenever I can. We were @ Christmas party & had a great time. My friend was freezing but I had layers & gloves, even Santa hat. Only problem, corn dog line was way around P I. Solved this by going to Coke Corner. :)

Mo and I were there. I wore allot of warm clothes too. The lines were out of control. The cappo line collided with the picture line in front of the castle. We did see Santa and we did walk around the park.

We met up with some friends at the California Grand and had dinner in the bar. I had a Gadiva chocolate martini and the slider cheese burgers. I believe all of us had mixed drinks except MO had a beer. Then we all went shopping and we headed for the park.

I did hear that the crew that that was to go on Monday cancelled and got the tickets for Tuesday. That is why the park was mega crowded.

hobie16 wrote:How about the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, home of the Spruce Goose.

Best way to get there: Fly! My flight instructor and I would fly into MMV and take a break there every time we went out.

Neat experience: being at the dedication ceremony of a SR-71 to any museum, with Sled pilots as guest speakers. Neater experience: Doing that by accident under the wings of the Spruce Goose.

Where they now have the Blackbird roped off, the night of the ceremony, you could get right under it. I had to stick my head in a wheel well so I could say I'd done it.

Such a beautiful plane.

This is a beautiful plane.

hobie16 wrote:This is a beautiful plane.

Aaaaah,the Valkyrie. It's a crying shame what happened to those 2 planes. :(
The YB-49 was also a damn good lookin aircraft.

As long as we are OT , where I live is the home to the B-1 Bombers in Texas. Now that is a cool plane. We get to see many takeoffs and landings on a weekly basis. When they crank the wings back and light the afterburners is truly incredible. My next door neighbor was a crew chief and part of the ground team for the flyby at the rose bowl the year Texas won.

darph nader wrote:Aaaaah,the Valkyrie. It's a crying shame what happened to those 2 planes. :(

Agreed.

mousecrazy2006 wrote:As long as we are OT

Best get used to it. We get off topic every once in a while.

Big Wallaby wrote:Best get used to it. We get off topic every once in a while.

I think that qualifies as a candidate for understatement of the decade. :p:

hobie16 wrote:This is a beautiful plane.

very neat aircraft.

When I was growing up, they had a large painting of that in our court house.

I would visit and look at that for the longest time. (had several relatives that worked there)

years later when I found out the history of the plane, it was kinda sad, as I envisioned that sucker flying around, protecting us.

No worries, sometimes off the beaten path is very interesting. My buddy the crew cheif came back from a firepower demo in Vegas one year and showed me the video, sure wished i had kept a copy. Watching a B-1 Drop a load of 500 pd bombs was too cool.