Looks like something out of Star Citizen, for a Dash8 classic pilot… 
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about 30min before the sky became red
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Recently had a long layover in Mobile, Alabama. Paid a visit to the USS Alabama Memorial Park and Museum. Great park/museum site as you get the Alabama, USS Drum (submarine) and an indoor and outdoor set of aircraft (F-14, -15, -16, YF-17, F-105, A-12, A-6 to name a few) and tanks.
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Usedom, Friday last week
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Awesome pictures! I didn’t know that was there, will have to check it out next time I’m laying over in Mobile.
Weird seeing the Tomcat without the shoulder pylons. I kinda dig it!
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I’ve toured 2 other battleships, the Iowa and Missouri. Of the 3, I’d say the Alabama allows the most access in terms of being able to freely walk around most of the ship. The 'Bama has a ton of history, notably it’s time in WW2. You can read/listen to the stories in many rooms designated with signage, photos and videos.
Now, I just need to get out to Norfolk (USS Wisconsin) and Philadelphia (USS New Jersey) to complete the Iowa class tours. The Alabama is in the prior class, South Dakota.
Here are a few more pics:
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That reminds me, I must go to Newark Air Museum. Been meaning to go for years and just never got round to it, and it’s only about 30 minutes ride/drive from home. I did a charity ride earlier in the year for the Lincs/Notts Air Ambulance and the start point was right next to the museum - you can see some aircraft in the background, though not in focus.
They were short a couple of marshals on the ride, so I volunteered - attached is also a photo of my marshal point!
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High birth rate in this area? 
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You kid, but that Vulcan back there is magical…
A good ten years ago, I took my (then) GF to London for sights, museum, a theatre show and the Farnborough airshow (yes I know, I should have gone for RIAT). We saw lot’s of things that week, but the Vulcan… wow. The noise, the smell, the beautiful silhouette as it soared over the airfield. That impressed us both mightily. Nine months later my son was born
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It is excellent. I am 30 minutes east of it.
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Still time…
Spanish harriers are rumored…
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Actually…
I’m thinking of going this year. I will not have the funds to take the crew to Portugal in may, and my boy really had his mind set on getting to ride an airbus. So I was thinking him and me ride one of those godawful contraptions to ol’ blighty for some fish 'n chips, jets and wrong-side-of-the-road traffic.
Too bad we won’t get to see flankers anymore 
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Woolsthorpe Manor.
Birthplace of Isaac Newton and according to Einstein the birthplace of theoretical physics.
A small National Trust property. As well as the house there is a barn enabling hands on recreation of many of Newtons experiments. The walls of the house has much graffitti as Newton drew and scribbled on the walls, now preserved behind glass.
This is the apple tree from which a falling apple inspired thoughts of gravity. The tree fell in a storm in 1816 but re rooted itself.
Pips from the tree’s apples were taken into space by Tim Peake. This (below) sapling grew from one of them
Newton returned to Woolsthorpe as a young man to avoid plague that had struck Cambridge Univerisity. In his bedroom he experimented with light and the laws of motion.
A small site taking one or two hours. But close to RAF North Witham from where the first paratroops flew to land in France the night before D Day.
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Such incredible history!
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Properly edited
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ah, looks like a black-headed gull in winter plumage! 
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Closing out my Alaska pics from a couple of weeks ago.
Everts Air Fuel DC-6B on the run-up pad.
I was standing on top of my rental’s icy roof, hand shooting at 1/10 to get the prop disk. I’m sure the crew thought I was nuts.
My favorite of the set, they’re about to take the active for departure. The landing light illuminated the prop disk beautifully.
And then back at the Everts ramp, I shot their C-46 from over the fence.
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Something makes the C-46 look like a fat, happy fish to me. I don’t know why but I just like that shape.
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