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September 3, 2004 at 7:21 pm in reply to: US Air Force hones future gunship plans (Replace AC-130) #2656214

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scary lookin. looks like they are hunkering down for decades of GOAT(global war on terror).

I don’t think that’s the reason…remember the C-130 & KC-135 are both 50 years old. They’ve got to go sometime.

September 3, 2004 at 3:51 pm in reply to: A peek in the 'Toys' hangar at Crystal Lakes #1564253

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Very similar to my collection…(of course mine is in 1/72nd…) 🙂

PS. I think the low wing natural metal plane is a Meyers 145…(or the new version of it currenly being built).. Also, the second Mustang looks like one of the smaller scale carbon fiber kits…(Nelson Ezell has one in his shop).

The yellow biplane is a Great Lakes.
Is the Jenny a real one or replica?

September 3, 2004 at 12:06 am in reply to: Hello? #1564944

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Hi, can I come to your house for a holiday? EN830 will bring some Pimms, and Flood will make tea.

If you go to DFW…I’ll get you on Dyess and show you the neat stuff.
You can even go into the perfect C-130A….and if you’re lucky, the B-47!!🙂

September 3, 2004 at 12:00 am in reply to: Canadian Navy S-92 Contract #2657042

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My guess is the EH-101 is a bigger ship than needed for the missions planned for the S-92. Sure, they’d save some money with a common type but it might be outweighed by increased purchase, operating and maintence costs for a larger chopper.
The EH-101 has three engines, and is fairly larger than the Sikorsky.
And like cheese, you pay for airframes by the pound/kg.

I’m guessing the chaps in Ottawa crunched the numbers before buying.

September 2, 2004 at 11:51 pm in reply to: Hello? #1564950

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Thanks John,
I have been to Dyess a couple of times, my dad is retired airforce, at the end of this month me and my dad are going to the SAC MUSEUM. We have some Warbirds around like, the B-36J only 4 known to exist, B-17 Doc Hospers, out at the NAS they have a f-105, F-4E, F-4N, F-16, F-86D, T-33, UHIH, HH34, F-14, F-18, A-4. Have you ever been out to Breckinridge?. 🙂

Yes, I’ve done three TV stories on Nelson and his work. Back in May we did a feature on the Seafire flying. Great people and an unbelievable workshop..it’s the dream of every warbird fan. The Ezell’s are really super!

September 2, 2004 at 11:44 pm in reply to: What should Mexico replace their F-5 with? #2657074

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Slightly off topic but, has anyone ever seen a Mexican military ac at a U.S. airshow? I never have.

September 2, 2004 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Hello? #1564968

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Welcome from Abilene, just down Interstate 20 in Abilene.

FYI, there’s a nice collection of planes (B-17,B-47,B-52, B-1, KC-97,KC-135, B-1 etc.) at Dyess AFB here. And the second annual AirFest (with a good number of warbirds) is coming up on Sept. 25th

September 2, 2004 at 11:10 pm in reply to: USAF tankers #2657155

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Aviation Week has reported that a group of “renegade” Boeing Long Beach employees is trying to get the USAF interested in converting existing MD-11 airframes. They say it would give more capacity at less coat than 767s.
One problen is to bring all the 11s to a common standard…and the convertions itself won’t be cheap.

September 2, 2004 at 8:17 pm in reply to: I wonder how true this is. #2657335

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John Major was the first post-CW slasher in the British military. And considering Thatcher withdrew the Vulcan and Lightning, i don’t think she should be given too much credit either.

At the risk of drawing hate mail…but weren’t the Vulcan and Lightning, you know…OBSOLETE?
Both were great planes and fun to watch but the purpose of the RAF is more than provide airshow pictures.
If she cut the Tornado or something a bit more modern, or even the TSR 2, (if Labour hadn’t done it 20 years before….) then I’d agree.

The limitiations of the RAF as made evident in the Falklands campaign showed areas that the RAF needed improvement…and the money had to come from somewhere. After all, you can’t cut the dole or NHS….

September 2, 2004 at 5:41 pm in reply to: B-17 raised from Canadian fresh water lake? #1565341

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GREAT NEWS!!!!

It made my day….
If you read Ernest K. Gann’s book “Fate is the Hunter” he writes about a C-87 that made a similar landing in the Canadian wilderness. But because of the plane’s value (all this took plave in 1942 or 43), they flew in a bulldozer, cleared a runway and flew it off before spring. Too bad, it would have been neat to have another Liberator variant out (down) there.
In the same episode, a C-47 sent to pick up the crew got stranded on the same lake. He doen’t mention it being recovered, so there might be a nice Dakota out there…

It might be worth sombody’s effort to look through RCAF files, who knows, a Lancaster might be out there……

September 2, 2004 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Mystery aircraft photo #1565355

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Goodyear rubber plane

On the U.S. Discovery Wings cable network, they had a “Wings” episode about “weird” planes, and had lots of film on it. They showed inflating, rigging, flying.. Even a few shots of a two-seater model…
Fun video to watch.

September 2, 2004 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Merchandise: The dumbing down of US Air Displays #1565358

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All is not lost in the U.S. Last September I went to the “Dawn Patrol Fly-in” at the USAF Museum. There were a number of booths specializing in books and magazines specializing in WWI-era aviation.
(At a used book seller, I even picked up a copy of “Project Cancelled” by Derek Wood).

I suspect it depends upon where you go.
But at small events I agree with you, it’s slim pickens…. 😉

(I can’t believe I wrote that…I’ve been in Texas too long…..)

September 2, 2004 at 4:07 pm in reply to: Fibreglass Replicas #1565536

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Other types in fiberglass..
The Mustang at Duxford’s American Air Museum
P-40’s…some static, some taxiable, destroyed for “Tora, Tora, Tora”.
A P-38 at Lackland AFB, TX.
The largest I’m aware of…the Liberator at Lackland that replaced the one now at the AAM.

Here’s a link to a company that makes some….with some interesting photos.
http://www.starraircraft.us.

September 1, 2004 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Commercial cargo aircraft, what's the most efficient? #662154

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I’d like to see a 737 landing on an ice runway.

By that I mean a runway which is actualy nothing more than a crude runway, bulldozed on top of a glacier! That would rip a 737 apart!
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The 737 is approved for operating on gravel strips. The Canadians have been doing it for years up in their Northern territories….and I think an airline in Alaska also operated off gravel. There is an STC for the gravel mod kit and it was available from the factory..at least for -200 models.

September 1, 2004 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Light Aircraft "eaten" by cows? #435935

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It has always been a known thing in gliding circles that if you land a fabric covered aircraft in a field of cows they are partial to licking the fabric to destruction because of their dope affinity.

Crazy dope fiend cows…this drug stuff is getting out of hand. 😎
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