A few quick pics I took in London
 

Because driving in London costs a bazillion $$, you only seem to see cabs and expensive cars. I saw a number of ferarris. And many of these:

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Insane.

I thought of you guys while I was in London...

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And the words on the Marquee I never thought I'd see..
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The arena is called the O2, (O2 is a cell phone company). It was called the Millineum Dome. The place is bascially an arena with a mall aro8und it, all covered by a big tent. The mall is all restaurants. The big yellow towers are supports for the tent/roof. A pretty neat place.

A public skating rink outside the arena.
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The main support near the box office
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A look down the mall.
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Outside the arena is open year round, even if there are no events. They had the King Tut exhibit going too. Really neat place.

Looks like a cool place. Any idea what the attendance was for the show?

- Justin

~16,000

Yeah, it is a real neat place. So many interesting old buildings. And that survived WWII bombing.

Big Ben
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I think this is the house of parliment. I could be wrong.
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Typical central london scene
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I took a side trip to the RAF Museum. Very cool, and very large. A few large buildings full of all sorts of planes and helicopters. Similar to the new Air & Space Museum Annex in Virginia.

British Spitfire
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I believe an American P51 Mustang
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One of the only remaining German Jet fighters
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12 cyl Mercedes Engine
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The remnants of a British bomber taken from the bottom of a large lake in Scandivia. A Liberator IIRC. I think it is a I saw a special on this plane on History Channel a few months ago.

They had a number of planes in 'as found' condition. Many impressive displays, but this one was the best. And humbling, knowing men died in that plane.
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http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/raf-museum-collection.cfm

Nice how you were thinking of us. Thats how I am now in Daytona beach I plan on taking pics of every nice car I see. its a blazin 63 degrees I am sweating.

Let's put the 12cyl in your 67'.

Very cool. London is a very fun city. That German plane is an Me-262, the first ever jet plane. It could outfly everything else at the time, and if Hitler would have listened to his advisors and used it as a fighter/attack plane, people say the outcome in Europe might have been different, but he decided not to use it to its potential and only used a handful of them.

The O2 place is pretty fun. They built that for new years 2000.

meghan says post more pics, and yes thats parlament building

doesn't arsenal play at the o2 arena?

Yes, but is it funkadelic?

For her I will post more later...but she may need to ID stuff for me. :lol:

Thats an American P40 Warhawk.

Looks awesome, I need to get out of the US someday.

What are you in london for?

He was there for the Led Zeppelin concert.

- Justin

friggin sweet:rock:

Cool pics scott looks like you had a good time

looks like jason was using his fathers ludwig acrlyic kit bonzo? My music teacher had the same kit i love the look of that thing :drool:

Ludwig made him his own set of Vistalites - Jason's are yellow.

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http://www.vistalites.com/legends/bonham.htm

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yeah i new johns were orange, i watched a quick vid and the lighting and quality wasnt the best so they looked orange, but still a kickass kit. they are so loud... maybe one day :P

Yeah, vistalites are loud. My friend had a set but he really couldn't use them anywhere he played - they were just to boomy.

"look kids big ben parliament"

Looks like you had a great time.

yeah, well the sound isnt absorbed anywhere. I have a porkpie Piglite snare. Acrylic and its has a tight high pitched sound and its loud as hell. i love it. you play bonzo?

No, I was always too klutzy. :lol: