Aircraft Museums... reminds me
Not one of my better stories, this.

I went to the Mildenhall air show thingy with a bunch of air cadets once. At the time it was a US Air Force base, so you couldn't move for over the top merkins screeching "ahw muhy gaahd!" whenever one of their trigger happy kind flew by (thankfully with all ordinance removed), much to the annoyance of the rather staid British contingent.

The USAF dragged out this Blackbird spy plane but put it twenty feet behind a cordon to ensure noone got too close to the thing. Just to make sure that none of us tried to hotwire the jet and take it for a joyride, an unsmiling marine with an M16 rifle and combat fatigues stood next to it no doubt ready to yell "he's coming right at us!" before emptying fifteen rounds into a fourteen year old schoolboy who was on the same side as him. No amount of waving or finger pointing would get the camo clad goon to twitch. Maybe he was stuffed and just wheeled out every morning or something? Goon was accompanied by a suited CIA-type gentleman wearing an earpiece and dark glasses who unbuttoned his jacket just enough to make sure we could all see the holstered gun underneath.

Still, he was somewhat more animated than his friend.
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