Just a place to put nice pictures you’ve taken
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We took my stepson to the Air & Space Museum annex out in Loudoun. He loves this place! Taking him reminds me of being a kid and going to the original A&S in DC. It wa my favorite museum as a kid, and I knew it like the back of my hand.
Anyway, this is the best sight when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
Anyway, this is the best sight when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
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A great shot- I just love the Udvar-hazy and the Smithsonians in general. I have huge respect for the general ethos of such American institutions- exceptionally well done and free to enter.jkbarnes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:04 pm We took my stepson to the Air & Space Museum annex out in Loudoun. He loves this place! Taking him reminds me of being a kid and going to the original A&S in DC. It wa my favorite museum as a kid, and I knew it like the back of my hand.
Anyway, this is the best site when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
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Nice shot! We had a couple of SRs parked out behind the hanger when I worked at Skunk Works. They were basically in long term storage. There were three operating out of Edwards AFB on loan to NASA for high altitude model testing.jkbarnes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:04 pm We took my stepson to the Air & Space Museum annex out in Loudoun. He loves this place! Taking him reminds me of being a kid and going to the original A&S in DC. It wa my favorite museum as a kid, and I knew it like the back of my hand.
Anyway, this is the best sight when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
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jkbarnes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:04 pm We took my stepson to the Air & Space Museum annex out in Loudoun. He loves this place! Taking him reminds me of being a kid and going to the original A&S in DC. It wa my favorite museum as a kid, and I knew it like the back of my hand.
Anyway, this is the best sight when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
I was working at one of our plants in Dublin Ohio for a couple of weeks a few years back and at the weekend drove up to the National Museum of the USAF at Wright Patterson air base. What a fantastic place and they have an SR71 too!
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I don't know if I ever posted this one on the forum.jkbarnes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:04 pm We took my stepson to the Air & Space Museum annex out in Loudoun. He loves this place! Taking him reminds me of being a kid and going to the original A&S in DC. It wa my favorite museum as a kid, and I knew it like the back of my hand.
Anyway, this is the best sight when coming to the annex - an SR71 with the shuttle behind it.
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Thanks! That view never gets old.
My dad told a funny story the first time we saw this SR-71. He said he remembers in the early 70s flying out to the missile silo for duty (Titan II) and seeing an SR71 at the end of a runway, covered with netting, and surrounded by heavily armed MPs. He said they were told to say they saw nothing and not to talk about it, not even with each other. And then he said, “and now it’s in god d*mn museum! Who’d have ever seen that coming?!”
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I’ve heard lots of great things about that museum. A friend captured some amazing images there.
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A lot of people don't think about it but they flew SR71 missions over Vietnam during the war. As awesome as it is, it was destined to be a museum piece as they are an order of magnitude more expensive to maintain and operate. Each aircraft took a small army of people to maintain and cover logistics. Every time it deployed the Airforce would move a small city.jkbarnes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:19 pmThanks! That view never gets old.
My dad told a funny story the first time we saw this SR-71. He said he remembers in the early 70s flying out the the missile silo for duty (Titan II) and seeing an SR71 at the end of a runway, covered with netting, and surrounded by heavily armed MPs. He said they were told to say they saw nothing and not to talk about it, not even with each other. And then he said, “and now it’s in god d*mn museum! Who’d have ever seen that coming?!”
Funniest part of your Dad's story is his flight probably didn't officially exist either!
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Some pictures of our recent trip to the high Arctic. We visited the North West passage and Beechy Island where Franklin's men are buried
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And a couple of others when we went to the other end of the world. South Georgia, Elephant Island and the Antarctic peninsular
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Afternoon stroll around Cliveden. An English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. Once the home of the Astor family who achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries. With ancestral roots in the Italian and Swiss Alps, the Astors settled in Germany, first appearing in North America in the 18th century with John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest people in history.
Perhaps the best well known Astor was Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor. When American-born English socialite Nancy Astor entered the House of Commons on 1 December 1919, she became the first female MP in British history to take a seat in parliament. Her home Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s, a group of political intellectuals. During the early 1960s when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
Cliveden has often been used for entertaining and for filmmaking including the 2015 movie ‘Cinderella’. The movie I best remember was the Beatles in ‘Help', filmed in 1965. The Beatles famously held races on the Parterre between themselves and the film crew in-between scenes. Most recently the Netflix pandemic comedy, 'The Bubble' was filmed at Cliveden.
The house today is a luxurious hotel, it’s where Meghan Markle spent the night before her wedding to Prince Harry. The Lady Astor Suite will set you back £970 per night.
The Snowdrops are pretty cool too.
Perhaps the best well known Astor was Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor. When American-born English socialite Nancy Astor entered the House of Commons on 1 December 1919, she became the first female MP in British history to take a seat in parliament. Her home Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s, a group of political intellectuals. During the early 1960s when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
Cliveden has often been used for entertaining and for filmmaking including the 2015 movie ‘Cinderella’. The movie I best remember was the Beatles in ‘Help', filmed in 1965. The Beatles famously held races on the Parterre between themselves and the film crew in-between scenes. Most recently the Netflix pandemic comedy, 'The Bubble' was filmed at Cliveden.
The house today is a luxurious hotel, it’s where Meghan Markle spent the night before her wedding to Prince Harry. The Lady Astor Suite will set you back £970 per night.
The Snowdrops are pretty cool too.
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