Snapshots from Beer-Tasting at Museum of Flight

[darin]

Last night I went to "Hops and Props" - it's an annual beer-tasting (unlimited samples of beer, free food (brats, meatballs, fish-n-chips, and girly fruits and veggies, etc) at the Seattle Museum of Flight. I didn't bring a 'good' camera, as this was my first time at the event, and wasn't sure about whatever security may be in place. These were taken with my phone.




View from the balcony overlooking the main tasting area - there was another with 8-10 brewers on the other side of the building.




Where I ate - under the nose of a SR71

[stephanie]

[Abbey Marie]

That looks like fun!

[Sitarro]

Something interesting about what you saw there D. is the M/D-21, the single survivor of the program. Although it looks like an SR-71 it was heavily modified to carry and launch the D-21 drone.....

this is what wiki says about it.

One notable variant of the basic A-12 design was the M-21. This was an A-12 platform modified by replacing the single seat aircraft's Q bay (which carried its main camera) with a second cockpit for a launch control officer. The M-21 was used to carry and launch the D-21 drone, an unmanned, faster and higher flying reconnaissance device. This variant was known as the M/D-21 when mated to the drone for operations. The D-21 drone was completely autonomous; having been launched it would overfly the target, travel to a rendezvous point and eject its data package. The package would be recovered in midair by a C-130 Hercules and the drone would self-destruct.
The program to develop this system was canceled in 1966 after a drone collided with the mother ship at launch, destroying the M-21 and killing the Launch Control Officer. Three successful test flights had been conducted under a different flight regime; the fourth test was in level flight, considered an operational likelihood. The shock wave of the M-21 retarded the flight of the drone, which crashed into the tailplane. The crew survived the mid-air collision but the LCO drowned when he landed in the ocean and his flight suit filled with water.
The surviving M-21 is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington with a drone. The D-21 was adapted to be carried on wings of the B-52 bomber.

Nice shots, amazing how far camera phones have come, I can't wait for the camera implant that uses through the eyes technology. Use Binoculars for the telephoto lens and a magnifying glass for a macro.