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Not so OT: Images from San Diego
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:17 pm
by 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
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:48 pm
by Nikademus
So close.......we could hold him down and force coffee down his throat.
Then he would know CAFFINATION.
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:21 pm
by Onime No Kyo
You couldnt wait for a few months, dumb@ss? [8|]
Now youre going to Omaha or else. [:D]
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:48 pm
by 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. [:(]
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:51 pm
by 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]
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:03 pm
by 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).
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:18 pm
by 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]
RE: OT: A meet in San Diego?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:42 pm
by 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*
OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:47 am
by 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(]
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:54 am
by Chickenboy
Midway model side and rear...
Remember that plastic was uncommon as a construction material in the 1940s...
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:55 am
by Chickenboy
Will post other nice naval shots from the Midway and company tomorrow...
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:00 am
by Chickenboy
See if the smart readers of this forum can tell me who she is...
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:41 am
by 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.
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:12 am
by 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!
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:27 am
by 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.
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:46 pm
by 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
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:51 pm
by 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.
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:52 pm
by 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]
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:59 pm
by 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
RE: OT: San Diego naval exhibits
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:18 pm
by 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.
