Another roadtrip

[mtbc]

Our weekend trips away from home displace activities like my writing here. Last weekend, we stayed near Sunderland, renting a garden flat looking out toward Roker Beach. The weather on our full day there was unremittingly dreich. We had some luck getting a good parking spot on our last morning there: before we departed, we walked out on to Roker Pier from where we could stand at the lighthouse and watch dolphins in the North Sea.

Our route took us near the Solway Aviation Museum which made an excellent pausing point, R.'s sons got a tour of a Vulcan. In subsequent reading I now learn that the Tornado can carry nuclear weapons and that the UK's buying F-35A's for carrying them too. I had not realized that there was interest in delivery other than from submarines.

Comments

[armiphlage]

Technically a Honda Civic can carry nuclear weapons, although it might not be able to safely get out of the blast radius after delivering it.

[thewayne]

I really like the Vulcan, they have one at the SAC museum in Nebraska. I've only been there twice, but I got plenty of pics of it when there.