Searched for UF6 trucks around Paducah KY as found on previous trips above, no luck. Went to the uranium processing plant. Stern armed guards. Not particularly friendly. No access.

 

Space Museum

at Huntsville AL. This used to be at the Redstone arsenal, now strictly a civilian facility, like so many are, post 9-11.

 

Museum of Man in the Sea

in Panama City  FL. Run by the divers association. Has lots of undersea research vehicles, mini-subs and diving suits. Sealab is there. The curator was also working on a magnetometer and we compared notes.

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Air Force Armaments Museum inside Eglin AFB. .

 

 

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The red number 11 and the red dot on the display below are the radiological wipe test locations.

 

This ejection seat had a strong radiation response.

 We thought it might have been  from the release handles but subsequent conversations with the manufacturer indicate it must have been something else. They say that they never used glow-in-the -dark technology on these.

 

Navy Air museum at Pensacola FL

 Lots of rad items, friendly staff.

LINK TRAINERS 

 as show below, always have an extra strong Radium paint on the dials. In use, the pilot in training is sealed inside

the trainer by a light tight canopy. Likewise the dials on the control console are above normal Radium content.

TESTING MOON ROCK WITH PM1703M

 

F-111 Trainer

 

Secondary Steering Station Display

 

SHIPS CLOCK DISPLAY

SECONDARY SHIP'S ENGINE TELEGRAPH DISPLAY

 

Local hospitals and oncology centers in the Destin area. Many hits here.

 

Drove the National Seashore roads across to Dauphine Island

and took the ferry boat ride out in the Gulf amongst the oil rigs, registered the lowest radiation reading anywhere yet - only 26 nR/H. Great pictures as the sun set.

 

 

 

USS ALABAMA Battleship

Super friendly, surprisingly-not much rad items. There is a helicopter ride available during good weather, only $20.00.

 

 

MODERN TRITIUM EXIT SIGN

 

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Aircraft museum at the USS ALABAMA site

 Back in commission but massive damage to all aircraft from Katrina. Entire site was 12 feet underwater, planes floated, crashed into one another on wave action. Terrible. The battleship listed 8 degrees after the storm. Still a bit off level.

 

USS DRUM WWII Submarine

Super friendly, unlocked cabins so I could take readings and pictures. Some rad items not a majority of dials though. Watch for movie this fall, "SEA VIPER" to be filmed on board. She is on land now, was in the water on my last visit, some years ago.

 

Shipyards at Pascagoula MS

Deploying the BTI Bubble Neutron Detector, Searching for stray neutrons from Ship's power plants.

 

 

Biloxi- toured storm damage. Awesome.

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Armed Forces Museum

inside Camp Shelby MS. Several rad items including a gun barrel that once fired DU rounds.

THIS MINE DETECTOR HAD EXPOSED RADIUM, WE REPORTED IT TO THE CURATOR.

 

 

Along the route we stopped at many antique stores and malls, and even a few Army surplus stores, ever looking for rad related items and other fun goodies.

 

2550 miles round trip.

Logged 62 hours on the road, average MPG=20.9.