Not so OT: Images from San Diego

[Chickenboy]

I'll be heading to San Diego tomorrow morning for a week. Any WiTP:AE die hards out there that would be interested in getting together? Would be great to meet up if possible. Drop me a PM if you can.

Cheers,

Chickenboy

[Nikademus]

So close.......we could hold him down and force coffee down his throat.

Then he would know CAFFINATION.

[Onime No Kyo]

You couldnt wait for a few months, dumb@ss? [8|]

Now youre going to Omaha or else. [:D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

You couldnt wait for a few months, dumb@ss? [8|]

Now youre going to Omaha or else. [:D]

Sounds like you are really serious! I LIKE that! [:D] Torstein had been talking about coming out here , but backed off when I said I was planning an east coast trip when he was here. [:(]

[Onime No Kyo]

Well, if Google Maps is to be believed the road from Chicago leads right through Omaha. But I may make a detour to Minnesota to beat Andre's @ss if he neglects to show up. [:D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Well, if Google Maps is to be believed the road from Chicago leads right through Omaha. But I may make a detour to Minnesota to beat Andre's @ss if he neglects to show up. [:D]

Are you taking interstate 80? That leads through Omaha. I'm 7-9 miles south in Bellevue. Are you planning a drive by , or taking a little time?[&:] There is a nearby museum or two , depending on your interest. Including the Strategic Air and space museum. [:)](and if you are train buff (like Mike, there are a bunch of train museums).

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Well, if Google Maps is to be believed the road from Chicago leads right through Omaha. But I may make a detour to Minnesota to beat Andre's @ss if he neglects to show up. [:D]

Are you taking interstate 80? That leads through Omaha. I'm 7-9 miles south in Bellevue. Are you planning a drive by , or taking a little time?[&:] There is a nearby museum or two , depending on your interest. Including the Strategic Air and space museum. [:)](and if you are train buff (like Mike, there are a bunch of train museums).

Didnt notice the name of the road but it seems to have been the big one I can only assume there is one such in Omaha. [:D]

Probably not a lengthy stay. But I would like to stop by long enough to buy you and the missus a refreshing beverage. [:D]

[ilovestrategy]

Just letting you know I live in San Diego. Don't have a phone # for you to call me though. Gonna be without one for a month or so, trying to get my kid through college. *sigh*

[Chickenboy]

Lovely tour of the USS Midway and her excellent museum. Very enjoyable evening while there. A teaser though: a genuine plastic construction model of her built in 1943. You think Lego Yamato was tough-try putting 18 'anatomically correct' decks on her! [X(]

[Chickenboy]

Midway model side and rear...

Remember that plastic was uncommon as a construction material in the 1940s...

[Chickenboy]

Will post other nice naval shots from the Midway and company tomorrow...

[Chickenboy]

See if the smart readers of this forum can tell me who she is...

[House Stark]

Yeah, can't answer that one. Was in San Diego not too long ago, and kept trying to figure out what was up with that carrier. That picture makes things a lot clearer though.

[jmalter]

wow, Chickenboy - those pics of plastic-model Midway are great!

obv, James Doohan was in their base, giving away Starfleet's 'transparent aluminum' secrets two decades earlier than the movies would have us beleive!

[Skyros]

Went to google earth to check out the location. Two carriers tied up across the bay from the Midway I could make out 76 on one and it looked like 80 on the other but I don't think we have built her yet. The fun part is when I zoomed in to see her number better, she disappeared! The pic was replaced with one showing the piers empty.

[KittyHawk]

A guess from back here in MN, I would say it is the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70.

Is the USS Nimitz still there? It should have pulled in on the Aug 9th.

KHawk

[Chickenboy]

It's the Carl Vinson.

Here's another visitor to the yards-she came in one night mid-week when I wasn't looking.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: KHawk

A guess from back here in MN, I would say it is the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70.

Is the USS Nimitz still there? It should have pulled in on the Aug 9th.

KHawk

Heh...cross posts! Good call, KHawk, on both counts...[&o]

[KittyHawk]

Spent 5 years at NASNI back in the '80s.

Just for the heck of it I still like to know "Where are the carriers".

KHawk

[Chickenboy]

Here's some comparative models of CV-1 vs. the to-be-built Gerald Ford. Note the magnetic catapult cutaways on the Ford. Also, the nose and rear view of F-35 variants on the right hand side of the Ford flight deck.