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Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:53 pm
by addicted08
Ron and I are off on yet another adventure. We are heading to Tucson by way of Colorado and Utah. We stopped at Wildman & Pam's place and had a really nice time visiting with them. Wildman made a card and put it in a cooler of Bud Light and Pam baked a cake to celebrate Ron's birthday. What good friends!! They put us up for the night and made a great breakfast for us to boot!
We continued on our way taking I-70 thru Denver and as always saw some really neat scenery.
Near Vail we saw that the ski resorts must be making their own snow because there was plenty here for skiing and we hadn't seen that much anywhere else.
As you can see, the further west we went the dryer it got.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:00 pm
by addicted08
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:20 pm
by SRF
Great pictures thanks for sharing!
Shane
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:21 pm
by addicted08
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:00 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:24 pm
by V8 Perv
Hey Wildman how bout posting a pic of my Birthday card?
I thought it was pretty fucking cool.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:09 pm
by V8 Perv
I don't care what anyone says Wildman your alright!
Even if you are an Obama lover.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:01 pm
by Swiss V8
Deb and Perv, you reall seem to have a lot of time to go and meet great people and see amazing scenery!
Keep the pictures comming!
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:51 pm
by addicted08
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:58 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:09 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:32 pm
by addicted08
Last night Ron was chatting with the guys on line and they were telling him about the Titan Missle Musuem near Tucson. They said it was a must see so we went to check it out. It was a gorgeous day here, sunny and 73 degrees so it was a perfect day to ride out to see the museum. After watching a short movie in which the purpose of the missles and silos were explained, the security procedures were played out and the crew quarters where shown we headed outside where our guide was waiting to start our tour. Anyone 5' 10" and taller had to wear a hard hat to keep from getting hurt on the tour.
These are some of the many antennas on site to ensure the call to launch would get through to the crew in the control room regardless of an attack on the silo site.
Once the crew is down in the silo they do not come out for anything but a shift change. So if someone or something is on the site there are security personnell up top that jump into this little vehicle and go check it out.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:47 pm
by addicted08
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:03 pm
by addicted08
Next thing we saw was the 2 stage rocket engines.
At the silo, they have the top door open a ways and a glass enclosure covering the opening so that you can look down into the silo and see the missle. The glass made it difficult to get a picture but I tried.
This is our tour guide in front of the silo cover. And the next pic is the yellow barrier around the grate that he was standing near.
There were 2 of these buffers. One on each side of the silo.
Next up was going down into the control room. This is the door leading down into the silo.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:36 pm
by addicted08
Next to the door leading down into the silo there are doors for an elevator. Four people in our tour group couldn't do the stairs (there were 55 steps) so they rode the elevator down. The first pic shows the doors just beginning to open as the elevator comes up. The 2nd shot shows the elevator almost all the way up.
The stairway leading down.
One of 8 blast doors. Our guide says each one weighs 6000 pounds!
When we got to the level where the control room was I took this picture down the hallway leading away from the control room. Later we found out what was at the other end of that hallway...the missle!
This is the control room.
The policy for the entire site....each person had to watch the other.
This is the 24 hour clock. The military doesn't deal with time zones. They use this time frame everywhere they are.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:43 pm
by addicted08
addicted08 wrote:Next to the door leading down into the silo there are doors for an elevator. Four people in our tour group couldn't do the stairs (there were 55 steps) so they rode the elevator down. The first pic shows the doors just beginning to open as the elevator comes up. The 2nd shot shows the elevator almost all the way up.
The stairway leading down.
One of 8 blast doors. Our guide says each one weighs 6000 pounds!
When we got to the level where the control room was I took this picture down the hallway leading away from the control room. Later we found out what was at the other end of that hallway...the missle!
This is the control room.
The policy for the entire site....each person had to watch the other.
This is the 24 hour clock. The military doesn't deal with time zones. They use this time frame everywhere they are.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:59 pm
by addicted08
This red safe is in the control room and has the verifiers needed by the crew to determine whether the president had in fact ordered a launch. As you can see it has 2 padlocks on it and 2 different crew members each have a key. That way no one person can open the safe.
After learning all about the control room and even seeing and hearing what it would be like if there were an actual launch, we headed down the long hallway from my earlier pic. Part way down the hall was this stuff.
And this pic shows the door that opens into the silo with the missle beyond. There was glass in front of the open door to keep people out so my pic isn't the best.
In the museums main building was this model of the silo.
And out in front of the building is this big antenna. It was the main source for receiving the call to launch and the other antennas inside the site were back up antennas in case the big one was destroyed.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:10 pm
by addicted08
We took a different route when we left the Titan Missle Museum and saw this neat looking rock formation. A sign on the road said it is Helmet Peak.
And we stumbled into this building. It is San Xavier Mission.
So that is what we did this afternoon. Now I am just waiting to hear what our tour guides say we should do tomorrow.
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:39 pm
by addicted08
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:04 am
by Swiss V8
You are just amazing!
Great to know some folks like you, that travel to so many different locations, take pictures all the way and show it to us!
Keep going like that! I guess we all wait for the next few pics...
Re: Ron & Deb are traveling again.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:56 pm
by SRF
I agree with Martin always waiting to see the new pics.
Shane