SI - Kyle Whittingham Article

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think the writer nailed it right here;

[LA Ute]

...I became more hardened to it, but not hardened enough to continue on to Medical school - this is why I am an engineer...

Wow, we've had a run of Ute engineers here lately. Wally must have put the word out or something.

Hey, welcome, and please stick around. After a period of hazing and trying to figure out how people behave here, you'll love it. Pay no attention to YOhio. He lives in Dayton.

[Coastal Ute]

Pay no attention to YOhio. He lives in Dayton.

+1
He's also the laughing stock of the board.

[NorthwestUteFan]

+1
He's also the laughing stock of the board.

'That's not nice, he's just a Donkeh'

Actually Dayton is home to one of the best airplane museums in the world. My former boss' old plane is there. (F-105 Wild Weasel, marked 'Bam-Bam' on the air intake).

[happyone]

'That's not nice, he's just a Donkeh'

Actually Dayton is home to one of the best airplane museums in the world. My former boss' old plane is there. (F-105 Wild Weasel, marked 'Bam-Bam' on the air intake).

I actually think it is better than the Smithsonian.

[LA Ute]

'That's not nice, he's just a Donkeh'

Actually Dayton is home to one of the best airplane museums in the world. My former boss' old plane is there. (F-105 Wild Weasel, marked 'Bam-Bam' on the air intake).

Please do not interfere with my efforts to insult YOhio. I am not sure I have succeeded yet, but I am persistent.

[UtahDan]

I actually think it is better than the Smithsonian.

Have you been to the Udvar Hazy museum? Hard to think anything tops that.

[NorthwestUteFan]

Have you been to the Udvar Hazy museum? Hard to think anything tops that.

I was going to mention that one. It is hard to beat a museum that houses a space shuttle.

The cool thing about Wright-Patterson is the planes are all Air Force.

Those two place very high in the top 5. Boeing Museum of Flight here in Seattle is in there as well.

[UtahDan]

I was going to mention that one. It is hard to beat a museum that houses a space shuttle.

The cool thing about Wright-Patterson is the planes are all Air Force.

Those two place very high in the top 5. Boeing Museum of Flight here in Seattle is in there as well.

For me the the SR-71 is the other highlight. Much smaller than I had imagined. But going and standing right underneath the space shuttle is very cool.

[NorthwestUteFan]

I am a living/breathing thread hijacker and in case anybody cares, I apologize.

Now that is done I may as well go all-out.

On Veterans Day last year I went to the Boeing Museum and met several of the Tuskeegee Airmen. I also met a man who flew a Corsair in the Pacific, and took a picture of him in front of one of the Corsairs. Meeting all of those men was a wonderful experience, they are all truly heroes. At least one of the Tuskeegee Airmen I met last year has since passed away.

There is an SR here at the Boeing museum as well, and as I recall at Hill AFB in Ogden, UT. It is a very cool plane.

My favorite things about Udvar-Hazy are the extremely rare planes, such as the Japanese version of the V1. The Japanese version had a pilot...

I also LOVED seeing the aerobatic planes: Leo Loudenslager's Laser, Betty Skelton's Li'l Stinker Pitts Special, the incomparable Sukhoi SU-26M, Art Scholl's Chipmunk, the Bucker Jungmeister, the Monocoupe, etc.

The Laser is the forerunner of all (most) all aerobatic monoplanes:

[Donuthole]

That was a crappy hijack.

[YOhio]

Actually Dayton is home to one of the best airplane museums in the world.

Yes. Thanks, Dayton.

If anyone else here is interested in the National Museum of the United States Air Force, please PM and I'll send you google map directions. You may also find a virtual tour of some areas in the museum at the following uniform resource locator:

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/vir.../panoramas.asp

[OrangeUte]

Another good article.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...guy-prominence

[NorthwestUteFan]

That was a crappy hijack.

Speaking of content or of its very presence?

[Solon]

You know what, I really like this guy. I'll echo what YOhio said and say please stick around. But don't accept his invite. Accept mine. He uses alternative swear words. I swear!

I've heard YOhio use real swear-words. In fact, he taught me a clever construction or two.

To be fair, though, this was at a Cincinnati Reds game a couple of years ago. Nobody is responsible for his/her own actions when witnessing such dismal baseball.