Some time during the next month or so I plan on taking a trip to the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum near Ashland, Nebraska. I have visited that museum many times over the years, but always while traveling back and forth, thus never able to spend more than an hour or so. I wanted to get there during the work on the SR-71 book so I could properly over-photograph their SR-71, but schedule, cost and a little thing called a “global pandemic” kept me home.
I still want to excessively photograph their SR-71 in order to perfect the large format print diagrams. And additionally, a potential future book (in discussion with Mortons, but nothing certain yet) would be aided by excessively over-photographing another aircraft in the SAC museum collection. I plan on taking a *lot* of photos (likely in the thousands) covering several aircraft in painful detail.
I had hoped that the release of “SR-71” would bring in increased business (the APR Patreon/Monthly Historical Documents Program, USBP’s, etc), but as has been all too common, business has actually *dropped* since the book came out. One of these days I swear I’ll figure out how every time I try my hand at advertising business actually collapses. I suspect that the truth of it will help open doorways into research in practical time travel, faster than light travel and popularity with women.
So, once again, I’m grubbing for funds to support this trip. If interested in helping out, just below there’s a drop-down menu of PayPal options, from “moral support” to “large sums.” The “Best Of” option will get those who chose it, as the title suggests, a selection of the best photos, probably over a hundred. The “All the Photos” option gives the funder just what it says, all the photos taken at the museum, including any panoramic shots I stitch together. The photos will be provided by way of a Dropbox folder or a ZIP file with all the photos.
I *may* extend the trip another day down the road to Denver to hit up the Wings Over The Rockies Museum for the same purpose, but only if there’s enough “investment.” If that happens, those who go for the full set of photos will also get the full set of photos from the WOTR Museum as well.
UPDATE: I’ve updated the draw-down PayPal menu. It didn’t have the prices on there initially.
UPDATE 2: trying again… arrrgh
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Love to help out but my Dad always said never click on a Subscribe button for all the photos until you know what it costs even if it is Scott Lowther. I couldn’t find any price schedules in your post.
I mis-formatted the draw-down initially. I thought it auto-displayed the prices; turns out I was incorrect. You should see them now.
Thanks. Contribution made with no hiccups.
Just signed up to help out. Not much, but hope that it aids in your trip. Haven’t had the opportunity to visit that museum, but since I served for 8 years in SAC (at Fairchild AFB), it is one place I do want to go at some point. Best of luck on your trip.
Michelle
It is very much a museum worth getting to. SR-71, B-36, B-58, B-52. even an Avro Vulcan.
I’d be willing to chip on a bit, hoping you’d take photos of the Peacemaker and Hustler as well.
Mike
I can neither confirm nor deny, but one of those may be the subject of a future book along the lines of “SR-71,” and thus will get heavily photographed. They are both, however, of great personal interest to me and would thus get heavily photographed anyway.