'Sci / Tech Tourism' Category
The scientific tourist #114 — The Avro Arrow
Yes, it’s only a model (at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia) of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow…
The scientific tourist #113 — Lunch time
This week’s image comes to you from Florence, Italy — a somewhat oddly put-together diorama…
The scientific tourist #112 — Horten hears a… B-2?
While the B-2 bomber is an impressive looking piece of gear, not that many people realize that the technology of flying wings goes back to the Horten brothers in Germany in the 1930’s…
The scientific tourist #111 — ejection seats
At the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim north of Munich, a line-up of ejection seats from both sides of the cold war…
The scientific tourist #109 — Fairy Caves
This week’s image comes to you from the Fairy Caves, now part of the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, just outside of Glenwood Springs, Colorado
The scientific tourist #108 — the painted desert
Today’s image comes to you from the “Painted Desert” in northern Arizona in the U.S….
The scientific tourist #107 — the F-1 rocket engine
The F-1 rocket engine was built to power the first stage of the Saturn V for Apollo, and still holds the crown of being the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever built, so I thought I’d gather up a collection of pictures I’ve taken of F-1s in various places on my travels
The scientific tourist #106 — the Ford Trimotor
This week’s image is of a Ford Trimotor at the San Diego Air & Space Museum…
The scientific tourist #105 — the Double Eagle V
This week’s touristy science image comes to you from the Albuquerque International Balloon Museum — it’s the Double Eagle V gondola…
The scientific tourist #104 — kiva tops
This week’s picture comes from Mesa Verde National Park in the southwestern corner of Colorado, USA — it’s the top of two kivas in the Spruce Tree House ruins…
