Living the dream 
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To be honest, I’m not sure about the heat it generates. You are probably right.
You are also correct in that once it’s deployed, it’s out there making a lot of noise for the rest of the flight. There is a little hand pump that is used to bring it back up.
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Are these WIP of The Upcoming KOLA Map??
…very cool shot
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With water on medium…
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And just now the sistership, KV Bison, sailed past.
Having both Coast Guard Heavy Tugs passing here on the same day is not common.
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Are they perhaps going to tow out some derelict soviet aircraft carrier that has broken down again?
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Heck of a view you’ve got there!
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Let’s just agree that they are certainly unconventional, and define their own unique beauty. They’re phenomenal machines.
Very pretty! Remind me- Varieze or LongEz? (unfortunately I always have trouble telling, especially with all the variations in individual build -extended noses, different verticals, etc).
Some photos from our little trip this weekend:
Arrival into Ellington Field/Joint Reserve Base, home of NASA’s T-38 program, the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (giant swimming pool you see astronauts training in all the movies). Pretty cool for the kids to get to see a fighter jet holding short while we landed. Saturday we took the kids to Dig World, where they both got to operate various bits of construction equipment. My son’s favorite was digging giant (sometimes muddy) holes with the excavator.
Sunday we visited Johnson Space Center (named after the shape of the early rockets, as illustrated by my son) and spent the day there. That’s the aft interior of Skylab, which was absolutely humungous inside.
We were lucky enough to get a facility tour, which took us all over the grounds of JSC, and the inside of the astronaut training facility. I can’t help but wonder whether things are a bit awkward these days with the two Russian modules in the middle of the shop. On the way out that evening we waved to a handful of Apaches and Vipers which share the joint-use field.
Our son fell asleep before we’d departed the pattern and missed all the in-and-out of clouds during the departure from Houston. The daughter took a bit longer, and had to fight off the forces of gravity a bit until things reached equilibrium.
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We bought a tent. It was 600 quid
We booked a campsite an hour later.
Its hailing
Its raining sideways
There was thunder when i put it up, followed by lightning…
I baled out the tent with a pint glass
We only bought one towel
My daughters unicorn hat is being used as slippers
The dogs are frozen
Its 3 degrees.
I’m quite drunk
And cold.
Camping.
Should i not post for the next 10hrs…send help
Unicorn hat for scale
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Last night shift in this rotation…was hoping to be home by midnight…(checks watch)…0030AM and still in Raleigh. Might be closer to 3AM when I crawl into bed… Can’t complain about the weather though. Nice night out there… Could be worse…I could be manning a bilge pump in @Victork2 's tent… 
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Exactly. It is why I don’t go camping these days. Loved it as a kid, but the Army soon cured me of ‘sleeping out’ 
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You mean you no longer enjoy pretending to be homeless? 
I note a suspicious lack of commentary on how long it took to erect, and how implausibly difficult it was. Isn’t that required by law when reporting on any camping trip?
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Indeed! And isn’t there a modern amendment to that law, that someone must film the event too…?
I mean, we could have laughed at that for months!! 
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Also considering that there were weather warnings for high winds and torrential rain … and also reports of some snow in the southwest I hope that tent was tied down bloody well 
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He just fixed the heater in the Hummer right?
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