Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Mobile, Alabama
I left the campground and headed into Mobile, AL.
I decided to take the tunnel to the USS Alabama Memorial site and tour the ship and the USS Drum sub.
Check out the size of a propeller!
Here's the shells those guns shoot.
This is where all the officers on board turn their names to state whether they are on board or not.
The bunks are actually pretty comfy.
The toilets were basically like an outhouse.
Replacement 40mm barrels
From the top of the ship
SR71 Blackbird in the hangar
Here's a tire off of the blackbird after only 3 landings. The Blackbird has the heaviest footprint of any plane ever. They have to take off with about a quarter of tank of gas and then must be fueled in the air within about 10 minutes. It holds 19,500 gallons of fuel, which is equivalent to about 2 1/2 truck tankers of gas.
Torpedo tube on the USS drum
On a submarine you were thought of as a waste of air until you had your dolphins. Silver for enlisted men and gold for officers. To get these you needed to know how to operate EVERYTHING on the sub. If you were a submariner then you were part of the "silent service."
This wheel operates the bow dive angle.
Ever wonder what it was like to look through the periscope of a submarine. In the next picture after this one after a couple minutes I was able to line my camera up to get a shot so now you know.
I decided to take the tunnel to the USS Alabama Memorial site and tour the ship and the USS Drum sub.
Check out the size of a propeller!
Here's the shells those guns shoot.
This is where all the officers on board turn their names to state whether they are on board or not.
The bunks are actually pretty comfy.
The toilets were basically like an outhouse.
Replacement 40mm barrels
From the top of the ship
SR71 Blackbird in the hangar
Here's a tire off of the blackbird after only 3 landings. The Blackbird has the heaviest footprint of any plane ever. They have to take off with about a quarter of tank of gas and then must be fueled in the air within about 10 minutes. It holds 19,500 gallons of fuel, which is equivalent to about 2 1/2 truck tankers of gas.
Torpedo tube on the USS drum
On a submarine you were thought of as a waste of air until you had your dolphins. Silver for enlisted men and gold for officers. To get these you needed to know how to operate EVERYTHING on the sub. If you were a submariner then you were part of the "silent service."
This wheel operates the bow dive angle.
Ever wonder what it was like to look through the periscope of a submarine. In the next picture after this one after a couple minutes I was able to line my camera up to get a shot so now you know.
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