Thursday, February 28, 2008

Citadel and kick ass plates South Carolina

My Customer, Eddie has decided to do a crazy thing, to make me stop work early and took me on his private jet and flew me over to South Carolina Charleston the historic place to a place called Charleston Grille, spent a few grand for dinner. It was first class all the way, Cadillac SUV waiting for us at the airport.

That is Mr. Loaded and his wife Karen in his gold plated jet.

This is Mark and Me, sitting looking pretty, Mark used to work for Spectra in Allied Signal, then 2nd Chance, Pointblank and now with my customer First Choice. He is VP International Business.

The town was really old school, some houses there are built before the Civil War. It was at Charleston where General Grant fired the first cannon shot that started the war. I visit Warren Buffet's holiday home there. Worth millions as everything in the house dates back to the civil war days and even the drive way still had oil lamps operating.


Pretty Beechcraft! Lovely plane, flies up to 55,000 ft and transonic I think. It was a 45 minute flight, spent $5800 on fuel, plus others, like car, landing rights, pilot allowances, which he had two on permanent staff since he lived all over the east coast.

That is me exiting the Beechcraft Jet at Charleston. Enroute to dinner, we stopped by a place like West Point, however, this military college ran classes for all 3 services. Its called the Citadel and their ceremonial dress still had the Civil War confederate uniforms of the grey. Interesting place.

This is the Historic Charleston Place, where we ate, the car on the right is ours. Bloody dinner for 4 was close to US$900!

That is my salad, the Boston Lobster with Crysanthemum and Chives in a Cordon Blue Sauce.

Here I stand in front of the M4 Sherman, the shit tank that won the war by sheer numbers. At Citadel.

The rotors that owned the nights and days, the almight AH1H Cobra! This one is armed with 8 TOWs, a minigun, a 20mm cannon and 2 rocket pods!

F4C, the USAF jet that owned the skies over Vietnam. Me and Eddie.

The size of the Amtrac is amazing! I only knew it in 35th scale.

Money in the making. Our submission, for $70 million tender.

Our Kick Ass 15kg/m2 Polyethylene plate that stops SS109. 10 shots including 2 shots from the edge.