My goodness - this would be such a slam dunk it's not even funny. Three planes and two ships.
F-14 Tomcat
PBY Catalina
A concept plane
USS Charles Adams
A spanish Galleon or other tall sail ship
Put it right on the river - Flex space, JEA site? By the stadium?
Heritage Park is so far removed from the public eye people hardly have any idea it's there.
Southbank seems like it would be a nice place to place this.. Near the former site of the Southside Generating Station?
I have heard of Heritage Park but not sure I have been to it.. Id have to see a picture..
Off topic just a little... Floridas historic photograph collection is extensive... I had no idea just how extensive, and even worse , I had no idea of the number of buildings that were razed , that I had no idea about.... IE Duval High/Grammar School #1 which was eerily similar to Annie Lytle, but appeared to be either 3 full stories, or the Basement was utilized .. I have no idea where this school was located.. I was actually trying to find some photograph of Annie when she was in use..and still have had no luck.. but I copied a number of very similar School Houses in various places in Florida... When I can figure out how to paste all of these pictures to a thread, I will.. It seems Neoclassic was combined with Doric in a lot of examples..
Anyway....back to topic...
Heritage Park is at NAS Jax
Ok..I definitely have not seen Heritage Park.
Quote from: Timkin on August 04, 2010, 10:21:45 PM
Ok..I definitely have not seen Heritage Park.
Because you probably can't get on base.
Heritage park would be so much nicer if it were off-base so the rest of us civvies could enjoy it. It's like a year round static air show.
Previous article on Heritage park.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2010-mar-suburban-parks-nas-jacksonville-heritage-park
Quote from: RiversideLoki on August 05, 2010, 02:21:41 PM
Quote from: Timkin on August 04, 2010, 10:21:45 PM
Ok..I definitely have not seen Heritage Park.
Because you probably can't get on base.
Heritage park would be so much nicer if it were off-base so the rest of us civvies could enjoy it. It's like a year round static air show.
But you can get on base if you want.
I think a park like this would be a great tourist draw. If would be nice if the boat had was large enough to have the deckspace for a plane or two.
This is the kind of stuff that - if we had a weekly drive time radio show - we could talk about it and get commuters to call in and talk about it. Word would spread and action might follow.