What’s the ballpark number for a main wheel?
This:
Tom, may I be so impertinent as to ask what your professional area and your academic experience are?
Followed by:
I’m not real smart but I can read..
erm…. seeing as Google has a feature that allows you to view images of the same exact spot going back decades, can we assume that the exact same pixels are in the exact same spot?
no, probably not… case dismissed…
I think the number of flying/flyable Tigercats is actually 7, maybe 8.
Lewis: 2
Slattery: 2
Clark: 1
Sessions: 1
& then we have Palm Springs Museum, Greenameyer & Tillamook…., ok that’s 9, assuming I’m not a bit confused & included some of them twice?…. & I think there’s another close to flying?
Anti-grav retro fit 😉
Interesting pic..
Comment on UKAR about the shark mouth P51 having a couple of bent prop blades.
In related news….IWM turns Naughty Field into a Free Fire Zone….
One of Boeings test fleet…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/palmdaleafplant42/permalink/1511863002192788/?pnref=story
Thom Richard said his hangar did ok.
Kermit mentioned that buildings at his new place already have *water issues* when it rains. The Connie looks to be sinking into the ground. I would have assumed some drainage work was done at the facility before buildings went up as he posted a pic of a drainage basin/gator pond that they opened the gates on. Not sure what use a few 1in ratchet straps are going to be. At least the Catalina appears to have the more industrial straps on it.
Thom Richards said his hangar was rated to 140mph.
It wasn’t the last time. My step dad worked at a tax office in Portsmouth for many years. There was a Tesco next door & they’d been using a naval shell as a door stop for years. Each day someone would open the doors, put the shell in place & then move it again when they closed for the day.
One day some EOD bloke from Vernon happened to go there to do some shopping & decided to have a look at it…. Live 6in shell. Oops…Tescos evacuated, tax office evacuated, Commercial Rd closed off, hospital across the street evacuated. I think they took it out by the RM base at Eastney & took care of it.
Not sure what year, some time in the ’70’s.
I have a bunch made by Kawasaki, but they are for my Z1’s & ZRX…. not a Ki-61 so I don’t think that counts.. although the older ones do have the original style Kawasaki badge on them 🙂
Four perfect passes, waiting for the numbers…