You want your own corner of the web where you can say whatever you want there's this thing callled "hosting" you can run your own site for 20 bucks a year or less if you look around without even having to learn how to properly host a website. I'm reckoning you aren't going to have to worry about having a high traffic site.
As to the extra suit...never hurts to have a spare when you've spent the price of a Bugatti or 5 to get ready to go play spaceman for a bit.
The SR-71 was ahead of its time. Shame it got retired. My favourite thing about it - apart from the facts that it leaks fuel on the runway because its panels are designed to be flush at supersonic speeds, and that the engines had to be started with a couple of Buick V8s - is that if it ever got engaged by a missile, it didn't do that tedious rigmarole that other military jets do of deploying decoy flares and evasive manouvers, rather the pilot just...opened the throttle wide and outran the missile.
In case you have to go through that sh*thole of an misdesigned airstrip called dulles, there's a fifty cent US shuttle between dulles and the dulles Smithsonian that houses a Blackbird as it's main feature. Trips back and forth about on the quarter hour every hour. Bus says DULLES TO DULLES on the front and they have merlin engines and such too on display. Rotary engines as well as radials and inlines and the rockets... As much worth the trip as the main air and space museum. Got a spiffy set of aircraft that didn't fit downtown and the Enola Gay too, if you get a chance, check it out as you will thank me. They also have a more interesting collection of lesser known Kraut Kraft than the museum on the mall.
gibby haynes: many thanks for the facts about the RS-71 (LBJ got it wrong when announcing it so they had to change its title). I remember when it smashed the transAtlantic record in the early seventies on the way to the Farnborough Air Show. Mr Johnson was an amazing aircraft designer. tom: many thanks for the tip about the dulles Smithsonian.
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Five yellow-suited aircrew into two Blackbirds won't go. Are they playing musical chairs? :)
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You want your own corner of the web where you can say whatever you want there's this thing callled "hosting" you can run your own site for 20 bucks a year or less if you look around without even having to learn how to properly host a website. I'm reckoning you aren't going to have to worry about having a high traffic site.
As to the extra suit...never hurts to have a spare when you've spent the price of a Bugatti or 5 to get ready to go play spaceman for a bit.
The SR-71 was ahead of its time. Shame it got retired.
My favourite thing about it - apart from the facts that it leaks fuel on the runway because its panels are designed to be flush at supersonic speeds, and that the engines had to be started with a couple of Buick V8s - is that if it ever got engaged by a missile, it didn't do that tedious rigmarole that other military jets do of deploying decoy flares and evasive manouvers, rather the pilot just...opened the throttle wide and outran the missile.
In case you have to go through that sh*thole of an misdesigned airstrip called dulles, there's a fifty cent US shuttle between dulles and the dulles Smithsonian that houses a Blackbird as it's main feature. Trips back and forth about on the quarter hour every hour. Bus says DULLES TO DULLES on the front and they have merlin engines and such too on display. Rotary engines as well as radials and inlines and the rockets... As much worth the trip as the main air and space museum. Got a spiffy set of aircraft that didn't fit downtown and the Enola Gay too, if you get a chance, check it out as you will thank me. They also have a more interesting collection of lesser known Kraut Kraft than the museum on the mall.
gibby haynes: many thanks for the facts about the RS-71 (LBJ got it wrong when announcing it so they had to change its title). I remember when it smashed the transAtlantic record in the early seventies on the way to the Farnborough Air Show. Mr Johnson was an amazing aircraft designer.
tom: many thanks for the tip about the dulles Smithsonian.
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