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Comments by YACCS

 
BACK UP A BIT

Ok, so the weekend of June 6-8 was spent mainly in Nebraska. In specific, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha and the Strategic Air Command Museum (just outside of Omaha).

The zoo was very cool. Despite the light rain that lasted all day, R and I arrived at about the zoo, and the first thing I noticed was the big dome near the entrance. This was the new desert exhibit. Quite neat. There was also a jungle exhibit, a very well done aquarium, and an expansive open air grounds. One of the paticularly cool (if a bit gruesome) things was that we arrived just minutes after one of the sea lions had given birth to a pup. It was laying next to the mother while it's mother was still recovering from the contractions.

Anyway, that night we drove to Lincoln to shop & spend the night at the house of a friend of R's. The next day, we had breakfast at Big Apple Bagels, the BEST bagel shop I have ever experienced. My favorite was the French Toast Bagel--YUMMY!

After breakfast, we drove back towards home & stopped at the Strategic Air Command Museum. We walked throught he door & as R describes it, I was "like a kid in a candy store". There was simply an amazing collection of Cold War aircraft. Seen were such aircraft as:

• C-47
• C-119
• B-29
• F-102
• British Vulcan Mk II strategic bomber
• KC-97 (a bastardized derivitive of the B-29 & an airborne tanker)
• SR-71
• B-58
• A Soviet MiG-21 (it has an EXTREMELY small cockpit!)
• B-47
• FB-111
• B-17
• F-101
• B-25
• A-26
• B-57
• RB-45
• B-52
  
  And the biggest mother of them all:
• B-36

I was suprised at how run down some of the exhibits & planes were. I would have thought that a museum such as that would have kept better care of things. Oh, and someone needs to contact the UK government to tell them to send a couple of airmen & some paint, as their Vulcan bomber was in dire need of a new paint job.

I almost got to sit in the B-52 cockpit simulator, but those damn kids wouldn't get out for long enough! Oh, well, next time...

After that, we drove home & slept. A good time was had by all!
so wrote Leper around about 9:58 PM