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delta queen

..more stuff from our recent trip to chattanooga.. this is where we stayed, it’s a retired steam boat..

The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat that is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Historically, she has been used for cruising the major rivers that constitute the drainage of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South. As of June 2009, she is docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has been converted into a hotel. It is possible that she will come back on the rivers.

The Delta Queen is 285 feet long (86.9 m), 58 feet (17.7m) wide, and draws 11.5 feet (3.5m). She weighs 1,650 tons (1,676 metric tons), with a capacity of 176 passengers. Her cross-compounded steam engines generate 2,000 indicated horsepower (1,500 kW), powering a stern-mounted paddlewheel.(wiki)

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big bang

..start the new year with a bang, just keep those fingers intact..

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rocket center

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class picture

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payload

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rocket city

..another view of this one..

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metra

..a metra train that was taking us to downtown chicago..

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tram view

..another view from up the tram..

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wyler

..the opposite view..

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ascending

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tombstone trolley

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body side

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morgan

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bug eyed

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z28

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italiano

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stud

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bel-air

..been gone for the weekend trying to fix my 17-85 that went bonkers on me a few months ago.. so here most of the shots i took in this event were shot from a 150mm then stitched.. i took a vid of me dismantling the lens just in case you experience that problem in the future..

 

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cobra

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v8

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cyclops

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ford convertible

..i don’t know much about this vehicle, but it’s black, shiny and a convertible..

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silver chevy

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by the tracks

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boss 302

..went to the orange county auto show this weekend and was surprised to see the 2012 boss mustang, it was a pretty slick machine.. got a few boring snaps of it, so it’s back to the usual photoshop shenanigans..

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mr maserati

..gotta slurp your ramen in style..

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dot

..we’re just specks..

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zippin’ thru

..stalked the streets of Vegas yet again..

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louisville

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queen mary

..walked quite a bit to get this shot.. whew..

RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard’s planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary’s retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel. Queen Mary celebrated the 70th anniversary of her launch in both Clydebank and Long Beach during 2004, and the 70th anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. She was the flagship of the Cunard Line from 1936 until 1945 when she was replaced in this role by Queen Elizabeth. (wiki)

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boat cap’n

..a tour bout going up (or down?) the san antonio river..

*anybody hitting LA for Anime Expo? i’m thinking of going.. 🙂

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whitewall

Whitewall tires or white sidewall (WSW) tires are tires having a stripe or entire sidewall of white rubber.

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southland

..git ’em fishes while they’re still fresh..

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1-2-3

..how’s that for a title? 🙂 this’ll be the last image of the series, i’ll be dumping the rest in flickr..

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Section High Alpha

..that’s a pretty cool name for this maneuver..

Blue Angels aircraft perform the “Section High Alpha”, the slowest maneuver of their show. During the maneuver the two jets slow down to 125 knots (232 km/h) as they pitch the nose of the F/A-18 up to 45 degrees.

..here’s a close-up to see how the pilots are looking at each other eye-to-eye while doing this maneuver..

Section High Alpha

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tag along

..from this angle, the small distance that they have from one another is somewhat exaggerated..

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diamond

..the good thing about shooting practice sessions is the higher probability of them repeating the same trick they performed a few minutes ago..

On August 25, 1946 the Blue Angels switched to the Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat and introduced the famous “diamond” formation at the World Air Carnival in Birmingham, Alabama. (wiki)

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Frank Weisser

..last week’s mini series was about birds, let’s start off this week with a different kind of bird, here’s Lt. Cmdr. Frank Weisser’s Blue Angel # 5..

The United States Navy’s Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue Angels, first performed in 1946 and is currently the oldest flying aerobatic team. The squadron’s six demonstration pilots fly the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet in more than 70 shows at 34 locations throughout the United States each year, where they still employ many of the same practices and techniques used in their aerial displays in 1946. Since their inception, the “Blues” have flown a variety of different aircraft types for more than 427 million spectators worldwide.

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katamaran

(katamaran n. laziness) ..tagalog, our local dialect in the philippines..

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the standard

..well, this ends the mini airplane series.. for more just check out the flickr slideshow below..

Hamilton Standard, a famous aircraft propeller parts supplier, was formed in 1929 when United Aircraft and Transport Corporation consolidated Hamilton Aero Manufacturing and Standard Steel Propeller into the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. Other members of the corporation included Boeing, United Airlines, Sikorsky and Pratt & Whitney. At the time, Hamilton was the largest manufacturer of aircraft propellers in the world. (wiki)

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pew pew demon

The McDonnell F3H Demon was a subsonic swept-wing United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. After severe problems with Westinghouse J40 engine that was ultimately abandoned, the successor to the F2H Banshee served starting in 1956 redesigned with the J71 engine. Though it lacked sufficient power for supersonic performance, it complemented daylight dogfighters such as the F8U Crusader and F11F Tiger as an all-weather, missile-armed interceptor until 1964. It was withdrawn before it could serve in the Vietnam when it, and ultimately also the Crusader, was replaced by the extremely successful F4 Phantom. McDonnell’s Phantom, which was equally capable against ground, fighter and bomber targets, bears a strong family resemblance as it was itself conceived as an advanced development of the Demon. The supersonic USAF F-101 Voodoo also retained much of the Demon’s layout.(wiki)

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fury

The North American FJ-4 Fury was a swept-wing carrier-capable fighter-bomber for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The FJ-4 featured an entirely new wing design, and in the end had little in common with the earlier FJ-3 apart from its general layout and engine. (wiki)

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510

The Grumman A-6 Intruder was a twin jet-engine, mid-wing attack aircraft built in the United States by Grumman Aerospace. In service between 1963 and 1997, the Intruder was designed as an all-weather replacement for the piston-engined A-1 Skyraider medium attack aircraft. A specialized electronic warfare derivative, the EA-6B Prowler, remains in service as of 2009. As the A-6 was slated for retirement, its precision strike mission was taken over by the now retired F-14 Tomcat equipped with LANTIRN pod.

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f14

..here’s another view of the mounted F-14.. in hindsight, i should’ve shot this at f/14..

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157984

..the past two weeks it was all about classic cars, now let’s head on to airplanes.. shots from the Nat’l. Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL.. of course not all of them are going to be posted here, but just a select few.. most of them will be dumped again in flickr..

..here’s a mounted F-14..

157984: 5th prototype used to demonstrate systems compatibility (source)

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up up and away

..wifey was the one who noticed this, i had to squint to find out where it was.. a good tip for photo walks is to bring someone along with better eyesight than you do.. 😀

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belair

..the last of the series.. i still have one more batch to dump in flickr but in the meantime, here’s what’s in that set so far.. enjoy.. 🙂

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car porn

..this is the hood ornament of yesterday’s car.. got this title from faisal.. i’m running out of titles.. let’s see how this’ll affect web traffic.. looks like there’s some dirt left under the ornament, not that sparkly clean anymore.. should i have cloned out my hands there? i guess not..

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silver streak

..a 1949 Pontiac Silver Streak 8.. looking at this, i should’ve moved that chair.. but then, i don’t want to get yelled at.. considering how shiny these cars are, i just kept my grubby hands to myself..

The straight-8 was dubbed the Silver-Streak at Pontiac Division, but unlike its “flashy” name, it was anything but. During its 21 year run, which included America’s three year campaign in the war overseas, and right up until it being replaced by the V8, it was considered acceptable under Pontiac’s somewhat conservative management. Powered by the “eight”, a Pontiac was promoted as a likable automobile, with enough power under the hood to get the job done in affordable luxury.(wiki)

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here’s lookin’ at ya

..a different view of yesterday’s post..