The reason they got out yesterday was because after I was rear ended & ragdolled off my bike & across 4 lanes of LA freeway at the weekend it took damn near 15 minutes to walk 60ft to their cage.

The goat escaped from the neighbours yard & walked into MY back yard…

The rabbit was free range, no cages & my pups are fine around kids, they visit the school across the street all the time (on leashes).. & it now appears that my pups went into the neighbors yard to take down a Coyote, I missed that part of the fun, neighbor found the Coyote this morning. Not so bad afterall 🙂

Mine impressed the neighbours this morning.. they got under the fence & ate their rabbit…. So now I owe em a new rabbit…

still, not as bad as when the previous neighbours lived there.. they lost a goat one morning…

It is indeed for tying down purposes. I have yet to see it used even for engine runs.

A few years back was doing engine runs of MoF’s Mk14 at Van Nuys, hot as hell with the temp in the high 90’s. To help keep it cool bags of ice were tipped into the rad cowls.
The blast fence backed up to a row of industrial units & the people who worked there parked by the perimeter fence between the building & the blast fence. Got the Spit wound up & the air flow started to suck the ice out of the front of the rad cowls. It was blown back into the blast fence & then went straight up & was landing on the parked cars by the industrial units. I couldn’t hear it hitting the cars, but the workers evidently could because suddenly there were a bunch of them outside & then taking cover as they being hit by high velocity ice cubes.
I responded by piling more ice into the rad cowls & *accidently* spiling a couple of 20lb bags right into the prop wash. :diablo: :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

I didn’t think to handicap all Spitfire restorers, I will know for another time.

Dagnabbit.. :p

Very attractive back seat passenger too.

The phrase used around here for giving some fine looking piece of totty a ride in a warbird is “tuna flights” :diablo:

There’s a scrap yard near here that has a drop tank mounted on a pole by the gate & just up the road a bit from my house is a complete(?) R4360 QEC from “something large”. It’s actually sitting right next to the road. I’ll nip out there & get a pic when i have a few mins spare 🙂
There’s also a pile of S2 bits at another scrap yard about 6 miles away over near Edwards AFB, it also contains what I think are Carobou control surfaces (& a pile of ’60’s Ford Mustangs.) They don’t even have a phone out there…

No pics on here from Pounds Yard in Portsmouth? There used to be piles of aircraft in that place at one time & I seem to recall someone tellling me they were seafires?
It’s also the place where The Who filmed part of Tommy back in the 70’s, you could see heaps of those sea mines from HMS Excellent (Whale Island).

Theres at least 18 of em at Van Nuys, guess I’ll be getting a call 🙁

‘s Tigercat ain’t it?