Where You Are Photos (2020)

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You fly into IAD or DCA? We are dipping our toe back into DCA next month and I’m not looking forward to the hassle. Doesn’t seem worth the additional work. I used to love flying into DCA pre-9/11, but haven’t been back since.

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I’ve only been to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum once and it was when I was a kid. Would love to get back there sometime.

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IAD… as you said, there are too many hoops to jump through when it comes to DCA which makes Dulles the better option.

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It is a great museum, with some historic aircraft. Unfortunately, most of the Museum is closed for renovations and expansion right now.

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So I’ve been trying to get these to work for two days now… The left one kept showing me garbage output in the display but turned on correctly. On a hunch I unpacked the second one and tadaaaa! Worked instantly.

So much time spend reading and re reading the manual and a bunch of tutorials(yes, I fell so low… :wink:).

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I’m pretty sure that place is always in a state of renovation. I vaguely remember large portions being closed for renovations the last time I was there 20ish years ago :rofl:

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Better not put that in your luggage… :rofl:

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Ah yes, every bomb has a visual countdown timer. Fact. :wink:

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And they tick. We can’t forget that little detail… :thinking:

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Not the digital ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1BXaLLoxo

Wheels

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Oh great. Now we’re on a list… :bomb:

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Now…? :wink:

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True. I think we had a paragraph with “F-14” and “Iran” in it. I’m sure the CIA-bot sniffed that out.

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Oops. This was intended to be in response to Beach’s comment about not putting the electronics in the luggage.

I have a buddy who was flying out to China Lake for some testing on a project he was working on and he had to carry a test box on his flight out. [this was back in the late '80s] As he was boarding, someone asked, “what’s that?”, to which he replied, “It’s a flight termination unit.”
“O.K. go ahead.”

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Welp…this can’t be good… :face_with_thermometer:

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Wanna borrow my positive pressure full face mask?

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@PaulRix might be able to ID where I am from this photo…

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Aaah I know that one! You are standing on a wing!

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Nice work!

  • Vampire
  • Mosquito- made in the Bankstown de Havilland factory in Australia in 1946, apparently!
  • Skyhawk, of course…last flown in 2002.
  • Short Solent Mk IV
  • T6 is correct, although it is known as the Harvard given it is a Commonwealth aircraft :slight_smile:
  • North Tui Sports - a NZ-made 1930’s trainer a short wiki article
  • De Havilland Dragon Rapide (nice work @Victork2)
  • Locheed Model 10 Electra
  • MB 339 - a surprisingly beautiful aircraft, lovely lines. Very Italian. :slight_smile: Apparently the kiwis found it could be high maintenance (suitable for an Italian lady, I suppose!)
  • Transavia PL-12 Airtruk - not quite as sleek as the Aermacchi
  • Commonwealth Aircraft CA-28 Ceres
  • Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea (Pou du Ciel) - this one never flew, but apparently back in 1935 (before the French banned the aircraft in 1936) there was a bit of a craze here - the kits never got full airworthiness certification, but that didn’t stop a bunch of crazy kiwis building them…and apparently they found out the plane only fell off the sky uncontrollably if you let the nose dip 15 degrees or more below the horizon (so that was fine then I guess??)! One confirmed death in NZ.
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Oh snap. We know it wasn’t in Raleigh, but apparently it’s elsewhere now?

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