On 18 June 2015 at 10:33, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > I'm guessing by the CLLI code in your sig, you're maybe close to St. > Catharines, ON, CA? > Close; actually, I'm in Stoney Creek/Hamilton, ON, CA.
> If that's true, I just wanted to let you know that - IIRC - there is a > SR-71 on static display within a car trip of your location in Kalamazoo, MI > at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. It's actually a B-model ... trainer ... I saw it > a few years ago when I was in town visiting my parents and it was pretty > cool ... I think it's still there: > Oh yes, I've heard of it. But a vision impairment means I can't drive, which limits my ability to drive out to Michigan. Though I do plan on visiting it sometime. Meanwhile the Canadian War Plane Heritage Museum is two (city) bus trips away, so that's a nice plus. > http://www.airzoo.org/page.php?page_id=192 > > It doesn't do flying demos but it is a complete aircraft in "mint" > condition and you can get right up there and touch it. > I don't think any of the SR-71s do flying demos, do they? I was born too late to see the SR-71 fly. I could still see a U-2 fly though (those are also neat planes). There's so many cool planes, and so little time to experience them all. (SR-71/A-12, U-2, B-52, CF-105, Avro Lancaster, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Avro Vulcan, Antonov An-225, Concorde, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, North American P-51 Mustang, Junkers Ju 52... and that list is incomplete.) Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
