Merry Christmas!!!

[ArdWrknTrk]

I call it Boxing Day, but my autistic mind has it's affectations

Like I prefer a U in colour, or many other things that make me 'weird' here..,

Shelton pretty much surrounds the Sikorsky plant in Stratford.
There was always a lot of contract manufacturing in that area.

[Rembrant]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

I call it Boxing Day, but my autistic mind has it's affectations

Like I prefer a U in colour, or many other things that make me 'weird' here..,

Shelton pretty much surrounds the Sikorsky plant in Stratford.
There was always a lot of contract manufacturing in that area.

Is "Boxing Day" still common in New England, or is it just you? haha.

I remember a couple of the plant employees in Shelton tell me that they used to work for Sikorsky. The Sikorsky S-92's are used here for traveling to the offshore oil & gas platforms. I've been on them many times. It's weird...they're as big as a city bus, and very stable, so you don't really feel any motion, in any direction, up, down, or forward.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Boxing day is my godmother's birthday, so there has been a tradition of gift exchange on the 26th.
Being in the toe we're more of the NYC metro than what most would think of as New England.

A stable and safe craft with good cargo capacity sounds like exactly the thing you want for offshore operations.
I remember you saying how you had to go through water rescue/escape training.

Sikorsky was sold to LocMart in 2015.

Before that it was a part of United Technologies Corporation. A huge military contractor, headquartered in Farmington.
Included: Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney, Norden, Carrier, Hamilton Sundstrand, Otis and a fuel cell division that was spun out of P&W back in the late 50's to service NASA's need for long term power in space.

UTC merged with Raytheon not long ago.

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BigBrother-84 wrote

Big Bro, Christine and I are wishing a very Merry Christmas to all our forum friends!

 
Love this truck in it's Christmas decor! Late to the scene here, but hoping all had a blessed and wonderful Christmas! God's blessing for all of you in the new year!