New York, May 2001
Obtaining copies
Highlights
Intro
Nürburgring
Where are the pics?
Races
24h-Rennen 2002
VLN March 2003
24h-Rennen 2003
CHC 12 July 2003
VLN 1 April 2004
VLN 2 April 2004
VLN 4 May 2004
Longer trips
UK 2003
New York 2001
Australia 2001
Australia 1998
Australia 1996
Short trips
Ordina Open (June
2002)
Rhijnauwen (July
2002)
Søren's M3 (Feb.
2003)
Day 5 - Part I
On the last day we had separate programs for the morning. I went to the Hudson river to visit a retired aircraft carrier. When I got there, I found out that this week was Fleet Week. Oops. Glad I got up early (at least by my standards, but also by local standards, apparantly) as there was more police around than paying customers. I won't mention the miles and miles of barriers.
An old aircraft carrier had been converted to museum. Apart from the
things you might expect on board a carrier there were quite a few
things you wouldn't.
There was suppossed to be a demonstration of paratroopers landing on
the flight deck, but the weather conditions were too bad for that, so
it was cancelled.
A large part of the flight deck held exhibits of all kinds of flying
machines. My interest immediately went to the SR-71 Blackbird. Like I
said, there were some things you wouldn't expect on a carrier...
When I was certain the paratrooper demo was off, it was time to have a look inside the superstructure, starting off with PriFly.
Next to the carrier were two other ships.
Scenery on the way to the piece the resistance of fleet week: the
nuclear aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy.
By this time, the rest of New York had woken up, queues were getting long, and time was getting short. I was supposed to meet my friend back at the hotel to check out, store our luggage, and have a quick visit to the top of the Empire State Building.
Back to day 4
On to day 5 - Part II