28/8/22 A plane day

Today I saw so many of the planes that I loved as a child and still do!  There were so many that were a lot bigger or smaller than I thought.

Firstly I’ll do the food update for those that enjoy that - breakfast was from the Hotel, typical eggs with cheese, potatoes and the standard paper thin leathery bacon.  The red is cranberry cocktail which was good but I think it was just watered down cranberry juice.

Lunch was a Gatorade which is probably the first time in my life where I’ve actually needed one and felt a lot better after having it.  It was only 36c today but all of the aircraft are either out in the open or in stifling hot display hangars.

Dinner was, at last, Popeyes where at last I had the famous chicken sandwich.  It was great, just perfectly cooked chicken, so soft and tender with a properly crisp coating and a cornmeal bun. I had a poke at some chicken and some potato & gravy too.  So much better than dirty old KFC, no dry chicken or greasy sloppy coating.

The green is supposed to be there, it’s part of the gravy.  The potato has onion in it as well as some really good seasoning.

This is supposedly a leg and a thigh, all I know is that it was good good good.

The star of the show - the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.  

Not much to look at by one bite and chicken burgers will never be the same again.

So, so good.

The view from my hotel room.  Supposed to get thunder storms tonight so I’ll have to set up the time lapse shindig.

America, so subtle about being American.  Note that the flag is behind those trees and the cars.

There are heaps of solar power panels everywhere here, and really handy for keeping the car from catching fire in the sun.

F-15, as big as I thought it would be.

A work of art, I may need to buy some (there were three different types)

Very forward thinking of them,  but as always you can’t mention the sinful body parts.  

Heaven forbid you write Breastfeeding.

A nuclear bomb!  It was shinier and smaller than you would think, 

I may encounter what now?

A passing thunder cloud, lots of noise but no action

I guess they gave up on it if it’s here

Reminds me of a few people

A MiG-15, it was so small and short.

Crazy Japanese rocket plane. Clearly not as explosive as you’d think if this one survived.

B-29, the same type of bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The B-17 on the outside

And the B-17 on the inside

Planes on the plain

Because you can never have enough engines, even if you do put them on the wrong way.

One of these is not like the other… actually pretty similar really

What the holy hell have they done to this P-51?

The world’s largest paper airplane, or what is left of it.

The gun from an A-10

And the shells for the gun - look at size of it against my meaty hoof.

The gunner’s station from the back of a B-52.  The green bit at the top is where the gunner sat.

And the back of the gunner’s seat. Nope.

A replica of the plane that flew after Richard Pearse’s

A rocket booster front the Space Shuttle. I gave it a tap and it’s a solid hunk of metal.

Row upon row of Hercules aircraft - hundreds more than the RNZAF just sitting there.

I’ve just noticed the drain there as well, fuck me they must have some rains.

If I haven’t succumbed to chicken overdose by tomorrow morning I’m off to Tombstone, site of the gunfight at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earl and Doc Holiday.