Nice AAR 
Where in France is this place? I haven’t had a good pizza for ages 
So if the resto happens to be along our way to south of France this year I am willing to make a detour.
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This is one of those things that I won’t be able to “unlearn” and will affect all future pizza. Possibly and probably for the worse.
But I need to know.
Great AAR btw.
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Bordeaux Region, close to Cazaux.
I found out, talking with the young waitress, that’s a Franchise (or should I say French-ise? w00p w00p!) called Signorizza Pizza.
Ugh. Yeah, 10 points for the pizza but minues several millions for the name.
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LOL, super simple- I need to rest though- between a thing and another I’m not really having a great time…
The pizza was mostly for positive mental health support…
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One of my Metrea birds was there, N572MA. She’s a pretty one.
What I found pretty cool, was that all 3 KC-135s, had MPRS pods installed.
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Is that who you’re with, or USAF?
I’ve flown into their new FBO at PWA, pretty neat to see them growing. They’re the ones doing the flight sim as well, right?
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Yes I am.
I didn’t know they’ve got anything in Oklahoma. Haven’t been into Wiley Post in quite some time.
The jets are based out of KRIV, currently.
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That’s awesome. I think they recently acquired it, along with the associated MRO. Dunno anything about it beyond it’s the same great people as always with a new sign and stuff, but drew the association the other day watching one of the videos about that sim “Hey, is that the same company as…”
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Thanks Wow, they’re really branching out.
Nice looking place. Thanks for the info.
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Would it be ok if I collected all my thoughts and further stories for this trip in a separated AAR post?
I don’t want to sound too self-important. 
I did see this massive bird (Mirave IV) with my own eyes though…
(not mine, I literally cannot take a single picture)
Got to see the Alpha Jet, the-M 346 and a few helicopters too…
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That doesn’t sound self-important, that sounds findable and organized to me. It’s nice to have these low-barrier-to-post 750-comments-long topics for casual chit chat, but I am always in favor of splitting whatever is reasonably possible into a separate topic.
OMG! Mon Dieu! Put****! Mirage IV!!!
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Yeah, it’s a the roughest most beautiful plane I’ve seen in a long time…
It posses the classic muscular beauty of its brute strength.
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My one and only time seeing a Mirage IV was right before their retirement at an airshow at Luxeuil.
Quite the beast!
I wish I was a better photographer back then.
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Yeah I can relate- I don’t know how to take pictures (good ones at least) and sadly I was made very clear that taking picture in this base will not be tolerated… 
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Visited Sleaford Castle where excavations are going on this week. It was destroyed as a source of stone in the Tudor period. But today they found a German coin c1580.
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Wow, I had no idea there was a castle - or remains of - at Sleaford. Shame there’s nothing really to see.
I’ve been planning to visit the one at Tattershall. I’ve lived in Coningsby a number of times over the years, when my Dad had postings there, and always wanted to go, but just never got round to it. Even took photo’s of one of my bikes in front of it - just never actually went in.
I reckon I’ll get it on this year’s list and make sure I take my camera. Have you seen the backwards clock in Coningsby? Seems such a simple thing, but can really mess with your head when you’re trying to read the time!
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Yes to the clock. Sleaford Castle was very similar to Newark Castle (pre Civil War). Tatershal is well worth visiting but Bolingbroke is one I highly recommend. (At Old Bolingbroke not the newer village of that name). At Tatershal dont forget to look up Tom Thumbs grave inside the church adjacent to the castle.
Park in Castle Causeway for Sleaford Castle, you have direct access 24/7 but today is the last day of the excavation so not normally any ontap archaeologists.
There is a great deal to see at ground level. It would help to go armed with a plan to aid interpretation of the mounds, hollows and embankments.
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