Orion
The inscription on my bed's headboard reads:
Orion, light your lights; come guard the open spaces
From the dark horizon to the pillow where I lie.
Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master;
Your jewelled sword twinkles as the world rolls by.
Words by Jethro Tull
The "faithful dog" is, of course, Sirius the Dog Star.
Orion, light your lights; come guard the open spaces
From the dark horizon to the pillow where I lie.
Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master;
Your jewelled sword twinkles as the world rolls by.
Words by Jethro Tull
The "faithful dog" is, of course, Sirius the Dog Star.
Orion - a picture for Ju's Little Sister
posted by Maalie at 12:35 pm
9 Comments:
Yes.... I see you have "changed over". I had a lot of fun when I 'customised' and gave labels to everthing, and realised how easy it was to add things to the sidebar. My experience with 'customising' was that most 'linky' things on the sidebar stayed - I think so long as you keep the same blog design. The only thing I had to do was repaste the html for the clustrmap.... but there was a nice wee section that made that easy to do.
It certainly looks very graceful in flight.
Thank you Maalie :-) Very happy.
I really love our Orion and love working on them. We currently have one in Texas at the moment having all of it's systems upgraded and I am one of only nine ground crew (maintenance) who were selected to go over and learn everything there is to know about the new systems.
The P3-K looks very similar to the picture you have except without the bulbous antenna underneath. If it's a met plane I assume that would be for the weather radar?
We also have a long 'stinger' out the back called a MAD boom which is used to detect submarines below the surface of the ocean. MAD stands for Magnetic Anomoly Detector.
And thank you ellee, I think they are graceful - for a turbo-prop aircraft. I shall see what pictures of ours I can find and put them up on Libramentum today.
Mum keeps logging back on to your blog to gaze at your Orion. She's trying to think up ways to get the poem framed too...
Dear Plumpy,
Run your paws over the poem with a mouse (now don't get excited, I mean that plastic thing your mum pushes around next to the computer) holding down the right side of it. Then click "copy" from the edit menu. Then open a word processing programme such as Word, and click "paste" into it. Choose a font from the font menu. Then click "print" from the file menu. Cut out the poem and laminate it in a laminating machine (ask you mum to ask a pilot where to find one of them). Trim the lamination into a nice oval shape (or shape of your choice) and blue-tack to your basket. Pilots and astronauts know what blue-tack is - they use it to stick reminders on their windscreens about dropping the undercarriage before landing.
Thanks Maalie,
I told Mum what you said and she said that her pilots aren't allowed to use blue-tack anymore because it's her job to clean the windows and it's too hard to get it off. She glues post-it notes to the control column for them instead.
Also, the Navigators aren't allowed coffee because they spill it all over the workspace.
And Auntie Emma says she has a laminator at her work Mum can use. Have a look at my little outside shelter on my blog and let me know what colour paper you think she should use... (Auntie Emma thinks yellow)
er... i didn't realise Mum was already signed in... I didn't meant to use her account for the comment!
That's a fabulous photo of the plane flying. You were able to take that photo personally? It's impressive.
Tim, I'm tempted to say I snapped it out of the window of my plane on the way from Australia. But no, it's linked to another source (not downloaded). If you right-click over the image and then click on "view image" you will see the URL in the navigation field.
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