UK and Washington DC Trip
Looking along the Millenium Brige across the Thames
towards St. Paul’s Cathedral.
I’ve suddenly realized that I hadn’t made anything more than a two small posts mentioning that I had photo galleries of my UK trip up. Well, I’m going to make a bit bigger one here, tagging the photo galleries themselves and some specific images.
I’m not going to mention a ton of different images here, only the more notable ones. If you want to see lots of detail, please take a look at the main album from this trip itself (photo gallery retired).
Anyway, here goes:
UK and Washington DC Area (November 2005) (Album) (photo gallery retired):
London (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· My room at the Albert Hotel (hostel).
· Nifty stencil graffiti found along the Thames.
· The boat I took from the Tate: Britian to the Tate: Modern.
· Rachel Whitread’s ‘Embankment’ in the Tate Modern.
· Tate Modern from the Millenium Bridge.
· The London Eye and the Houses of Parliment as seen at night from the Hungerford Bridge.
· Tralfargar Square at night.
· The Canadian War Memorial.
· Inside of the Natural History Museum.
· A rather graphic example of how dirty the air can be in London.Scotland (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· The road leading out of Waverley Station in Edinburgh.
· Walking into Edinburgh Castle.
· Sunset in Anstruther.
· Me, standing on a sea wall in Anstruther, along the North Sea.
· Some of the ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral.
· John (the person I stayed with in Scotland) and I pointing at a bust of Mary, Queen of Scots in his parents living room.Wales (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· Robin and Giles.
· Robin and I.
· Giles and Yak as we played some We Love Katamari.
· The bilingual (Welsh & English) sign at the St. Peters Car Park in Carmarthenshine, Wales.
· Taj, the wonderful curry house in Carmarthen.
· Me standing with Giles and Yak in the really nice pub right near their house.Washington DC (Album) (photo gallery retired):
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· SpaceShipOne!
· The crappy pizza I got at the McDonalds at the Museum.
· A German V2.
· Messerschmitt 109.
· Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1.
· An SS-20 and a Pershing-II.Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Album):
· Russian-made SA-2 marked for export.
· The Enola Gay.
· A Concorde.
· Looking out of the Observation Tower.
· MiG-17 Fishbed.
· The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is huge.
· Another view of a Concorde.
· The SR-71A seen from above, with the Space Shuttle Enterprise in the distance.· Outside of the National Museum of the American Indian.
· A hymnal written in Cherokee.
· The US Capitol from near the Botanical Gardens.
· Inside of one of the Metro trains.
· The Washington Monument.
· The Atlantic side of the World War II Memorial.
· The Three Service Men statue, part of The Vietnam Veterens Memorial.
· The Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial is being worked on.
· Part of the Korean War Veterens Memorial.
· Julia Child’s Kitchen!
· Sunset behind the Washington Monument.
· These guys were drumming on the street.
· One of the Metro stations as I waited for my train.In Transit (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· The A330 I flew to and from London has a nice game / video on demand / info screen in the back of each seat.
· The Gatwick Express is a nice way to get from Gatwick (LWG) to Victoria Station.
· The rather famous power plant, as seen from the Gatwick Express.
· Train Platform 1 in Cardiff, at 4:55am.
· A mushroom and cheddar baguette which I ate when en route from Victoria Station to Gatwick Airport (LGW).
· Just outside the international arrivals area at Gatwick Airport (LGW).
· Most of Gatwick Airport (LWG) looks like a shopping mall.
· I flew in an aircraft like this from Gatwick (LGW) to Edinburgh (EDI).
· The A330 I flew in back to Detroit.
· My tasty vegetarian meal on the LGW to DTW flight.
· The interesting mobile passanger lounges at Dulles Airport (IAD).Travel Documents (Album) (photo gallery retired):
· My lengthy train ticket from Edinburgh Waverley to Carmarthen.
· Passes for the London Underground and the Gatwick Express.
· Various boarding passes.
· Tags from seat reservations on various trains.
So, yeah. Lots of pictures… Hopefully you’ll find them interesting.
Oh! Also be sure to check out this video of the guys drumming on plastic buckets and a shopping cart along The Mall in Washington DC. It’s really quite nifty. (H.264, so QT7 is required.)
Ye gods, I miss England. :(
bunk bed! isn’t scotland beautiful!? i really want to go back to europe again soon. maybe scandinavia this time too.
It’s a hostel. :)
And yeah, Scotland is nice, but I really thought Wales was prettier. Although I’d like to visit northern Wales next time and be able to see ‘mountains’.
yeah, wales looks really nice from your pictures, but i’ve never been there so it’s harder to imagine.
“Unknown” aircraft at NASM
DSCN2581.JPG : Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
DSCN2599.JPG – Lower: Grumman F4F Wildcat (or perhaps General Motors FM Wildcat, made under licence)
DSCN2599.JPG – Upper: Douglas SBD Dauntless
DSCN2606.JPG : Martin B-26 Marauder (rest of aircraft is at either Udvar-Hazy or Garber facility)
DSCN2631.JPG : Rockwell HiMAT (http://www.boeing.com/history/bna/himat.htm)
(you’ve apparently got an extra space at the end of the link to the Udvar-Hazy gallery)
“Unknown” aircraft at Udvar-Hazy
DSCN2790.JPG : Actually, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, not the F-22
DSCN2843.JPG : Actually, a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
DSCN2871.JPG : Again, F-35
DSCN2880.JPG : The other aircraft is the Boeing P-26 Peashooter
DSCN2883.JPG : Vought OS2U Kingfisher
Yes, I am a hard-core airplane geek and yes, I need to get me to DC again. Soon.
Heh, thanks. :) The only one I’d disagree with is the 2790, because it’s a YF- version that was modified to have vents under the front of the aircraft, and to pivot the exhaust nozzel downwards for short takeoff / vertical landings.
But I’ll go change the others. :)
Lockheed Rules!
I’m pretty sure he is right about 2790. I’m pretty sure the F/22 does not have STOVL because it wasn’t a requirement of the program as it is an Airforce only platform. It was in the JSF competition (for the USMC and the Brits). The STOVL system they designed for the F-35 is totally money too and blew away the Boeing version that couldn’t be fully demonstrated without taking a bunch of crap off the plane.
We are working on a pretty sweet morphing UAV right now
DSCN2277 = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station