I heard if you dig to the center there is a bottle of Patron there… 
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Kind of reminds me of the Stonehenge scene from This is Spinal Tap…
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Had a tough day today … so far, anyway. I work with a company that does underwater sonar processing to generate maps and such. This is primarily in the field of natural resources and such, not the navy hunting subs. This year, one of the hardware vendors lent our company an ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) with a multi-bean sonar to do surveys. Today was the unfortunate day that I had to spend babysitting the ASV, making sure it did not go rogue.
It’s the little yellow thing going from right to left in the top left of the picture. Great day to be on the water and get paid 
EDIT: This is the kind of data we generate and manipulate. This data was collected on Monday at a different site combined with previously collected data from a few years ago. The ‘Monday data’ is the darker blue section on the left. It differs from the other data because one was corrected for ‘water height’ (the right side data) and the other is uncorrected for water height (left side). Water height matters because a river is usually not set at one level and changes based on weather, dam output, tides (yes, tides), etc.
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Nice office!
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I agree. 
Wheels
Concur!…
Very cool ASV. Although you are on a lake, bottom contour surveys are an integral part of modern ASW.
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Tilia Alsie
The ultimative sewing project.
A full scale reconstruction of the oldest wooden plank boat found in Scandinavia, ca. 350 BC.
Build by amateurs with historically correct materials, tools and techniques. Building time 10.000 hours.
Sewn together? I was flabbergasted, but yeah. It was the precursor for the ever so successful Viking ships from a later age.
The original is The Hjortspring boat. A 19 meter long, 24 crew War Canoe made of lime. It was in ca. 350 BC offered as a sacrifice in a bog, that later would be named Hjortspring mose. It was discovered in 1880 and excavated 1921-1922.
Okay, it is a little cheating as I didn’t take any pictures. I was so enraptured by the caress of history, that it slipped my mind.
I really loved the enthusiasm from the people there. They showed a video about the find and reconstruction and use. As it went along we where shown and was allowed to handle various items, as they where talked about in the video. Then there was an entertaining and educational tour.
The homepage
This is pictures by Torben Fischer
The boat can be seen in action at the beginning and at the 14:30 minute mark in the following video.
About the original boat
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Royal international Air tattoo at Fairford. Will upload some aircraft pics later but here’s me and the boy enjoying our boys day out together!
Its been a lot more hands on this year which is really nice. We went inside an RAF hercules and had a look around. A C17. A PUMA and the boy sat in a gazelle (I was slightly jealous) the the flying displays are pretty good although the cloud is quite low so dull pictures and low level displays… But we’re still rocking out 
Well… I am anyway
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RIAT was always one of the highlights of the year for me back in the early 90’s. Looks like you are both having a great day!
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Yea it’s still my favourite day of the year. Plus the wife didn’t want to bring our young daughter to the noise so me and my buddy are having a boys day geeking out and looking at rivets and bolts without being hurried along 
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Love the pics. I’m jealous of the Gazelle photo too… 
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On vacation in Sweden. Went on a visit to the museum at the Airbase where I did my military service.
They have a reeeally cool Viggen simulator, made from a real Viggen cockpit and a 36sqm curved screen, that used to serve as a simulator screen for the Rb05 missile simulator.
They took the cockpit from the same simulator and threw in a PC running FSX and a HOTAS, for the kids.
When I sat in this pit, shooting virtual Rb05’s, I didn’t think my daughter would use it 23 years later…
And here’s a pic of ”Anna”, a simulator that helped many Viggen drivers to get to grips with the AJ37 NAV system.
Imagine if they had DCS: AJS37 Viggen…!
The innards of the Aden 30mm gun pod.
SAAB 105 (SwAF designation SK60) Trainer/Light Attack cockpit.
The SAAB J29 ”Tunnan” Pit.
And last, but not least.
An artists impression of a Rb04 strike.
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That’s lovely!
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Oh, that brings back memories.
That’s the Nuclear Prototype Training Unit in Charleston. It’s the last phase of school before going to the fleet - six months of hands-on training on actual nuclear propulsion plants, learning how to operate them, run drills, etc, before going to a ship or submarine. The two boats you see there are old ballistic missile submarines (commissioned in the early 1960’s) that have been converted to training platforms- if they’re still in the same positions they were in when I was there 18 years ago, I qualified on the boat parked to the front, ex-Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635). The other is ex-Daniel Webster (SSBN-626). The actual nuclear power school is a couple miles further west, along the main road on the base.
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Is that also a damage control type facility where they show you how to deal with submarine emergencies? Or is that an altogether separate facility? And reading up on your link…that S5W reactor is from the 1959 era? Wow. Hard to believe the sub and the reactor can last that long…although I’m sure they get a lot of maintenance.
“Daniel Webster was decommissioned on 30 August 1990 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. She was converted to a moored training ship (MTS) and S5W reactor prototype training facility, by the Charleston Naval Shipyard at Charleston, South Carolina. Upon completion and designated MTS-626, she was towed up-river to her permanent berth at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit Charleston.”
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