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Offline Two Skies

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Re: Aircraft we like..
« Reply #380 on: September 08, 2014, 03:33:32 PM »
Now that I'm 1/2 owner of an RV-3 project it's one of my favorite.



You should take up crop dusting with that!  Might help pay for your new hobby...
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Re: Aircraft we like..
« Reply #381 on: September 08, 2014, 03:55:01 PM »
You should take up crop dusting with that!  Might help pay for your new hobby...

Well at low altitude it could smash a lot of bugs but my old Aeronca 7AC was better at that.

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« Reply #382 on: September 08, 2014, 04:12:19 PM »
Vulcan and Victor at Westover AFB in the mid-60s...and a vid with XH555.  I wish I had more on the Victor but my dad took those.  I'll have to speak to him about that some time in the future.

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« Reply #383 on: September 09, 2014, 05:06:26 AM »
And now for something completely different from the WTF files... 'The SLAM missile would have been a flying Chernobyl'

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-slam-missile-would-have-been-a-flying-chernobyl-daa6066850af
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« Reply #384 on: September 09, 2014, 10:08:25 AM »

Wings of Freedom Tour, currently in NH.  Moving on to MA, CT, NY, NJ, MD then GA.

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_schedule-wof.htm

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« Reply #385 on: September 09, 2014, 11:14:39 AM »
Now that I'm 1/2 owner of an RV-3 project it's one of my favorite.



Sweet looking ride Rhino  :chugbeer:

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« Reply #386 on: September 09, 2014, 02:50:31 PM »
Sweet looking ride Rhino  :chugbeer:

Thank you! Mine doesn't look anything like that yet. Previous owner had it apart for, engine overhaul, new panel and new paint. He passed away last spring. My brother and I bought it from the estate. He was my brother's best friend since HS and at the Air Force Academy together. Before he (the previous owner) retired he was the commanding General of the NY Air National Guard. We plan to paint it like the NY-ANG post war P-51's and put his name on the side.

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« Reply #387 on: September 09, 2014, 05:31:46 PM »
A beautiful tribute to your brothers best friend.  Looking forward to seeing the results of your hard work my friend

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« Reply #388 on: September 13, 2014, 01:00:51 PM »
It is kind of P-51ish except the engine cowling  :-\
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« Reply #389 on: September 13, 2014, 01:02:12 PM »
England.


                                                                                             



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Re: Aircraft we like..
« Reply #391 on: September 15, 2014, 06:47:22 AM »
It is kind of P-51ish except the engine cowling  :-\

It's got a Lycoming O-320. Kind of hard to make the cowling look like its got a mini merlin under it. Unlike a Thunder Mustang, the RV's were never intended to look like a P-51 but it is a better resemblance than a Mini Mustang IMO.  ;)


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« Reply #392 on: September 23, 2014, 04:43:19 AM »
Doolittle Raid, First Hand Account...

http://www.va163.org/Archives/Doolittle.pdf
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« Reply #394 on: September 30, 2014, 02:41:06 PM »
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« Reply #395 on: October 01, 2014, 06:13:23 AM »
I cannot give enough  :thumbs: to do this justice.. :salute:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-lancaster-bomber-returns-home-after-historic-u-k-tour-1.2028602

Nice! So happy I got a chance to see a Lancaster fly at Oshkosh years ago. One shot in the stock WWII footage in the report was of a B-24 not a Lanc. But what can you expect from TV reporters.

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« Reply #396 on: October 06, 2014, 06:08:18 AM »
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Re: Aircraft we like..
« Reply #398 on: October 18, 2014, 12:48:56 PM »
Jim,
I didn't think that was your type?   :stirpot:
You said a couple months ago about the MQ-9, "While some may like these new fangled aircraft, I can certainly say that I don't.  I like large aircraft, piloted directly by human beings, that drop very large bombs and cause massive destruction...all for world peace, of course."

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« Reply #399 on: October 18, 2014, 01:34:00 PM »
CRS... ;)   Ask my wife, she'll tell you that.  Most times my immediate reaction to anything new is 'NO' or 'Hell No' or Effen that.  However, for some strange reason, sometimes I can modify a stance.  In this case, I have it on good authority that it was piloted by midgets or very small children using their LeapFrogs.  It's the new AF.
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