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  • February 11, 2005 at 10:12 pm in reply to: What would you like to fly #432009
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    I’d like to drive my British Racing Green (BRG) E-type to the beach and take off in my Grumman Goose. If that’s too “heavy” then my Widgeon then… to some tiny Caribbean island…

    February 11, 2005 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Pre airshow season news #1370174
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    Work? gotta thinkabouddit…

    I can ask, esp if I egress/eject from this place in time to run by there before they realize 1) it’s Friday and 2) it is very nearly brewskie time.

    He was pretty full up on planes. There was a homebuilt in one small paint booth in back.

    The grill there was busy today. Lots of parents and granparents with little kinder getting kicks out of watching the planes! Fun to watch. 😀

    February 11, 2005 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Pre airshow season news #1370224
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    AG Ck your 6

    Al, check your 6! I mean, ck your emails… 😉

    February 9, 2005 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Another P-51 preserved in Cuba ? #1374152
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    Not sure if this is of any help….

    http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/pages/44-74505.shtml

    February 9, 2005 at 8:57 pm in reply to: Would you go? #1374191
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    Whirlwind missions

    263 Sqn with Westland Whirlwinds 1, taking out shipping in around Cherbourg, St Malo and the Channel Islands.

    EN830/Ian,

    I’ll gladly be your wingman! I have loved Whirlwinds since I was a kid….

    I have a couple of Airfix 1/72 kits unbuilt stashed away, I am saving for someday…

    February 9, 2005 at 8:47 pm in reply to: even more amateur pics from downunder #1374199
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    Wiararapa

    Is this the sound an Aussie helicopter makes? 😀

    February 9, 2005 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Would you go? #1374748
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    A bloke in the ATA; a “target rich environment” then?

    February 9, 2005 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Would you go? #1374924
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    One of my dad’s missions in a B17 over Europe with the 615th Sq in the 401st BG(H) out of Deenethorpe…

    Never even thought about it til now. It would be pretty neat… Esp since I know his crew always came back pretty much ok…

    Hi Swiss…

    February 8, 2005 at 10:26 pm in reply to: What's your best trip ever? #432147
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    Flying a Chalks Ocean Airways Grumman Mallard turboprop from Ft Lauderdale into the harbor at in Nassau, Paradise Island. (and back) Low over the clear ocean into the harbor right over the sailboat masts, landing smoothly beside ocean liners. Watching the gear go down and powering up the steep ramp right to its own customs hut by the Atlantis Resort. Only holds 16, no cockpit door, Luggage up in the nose came out a bit wet.

    Totally awesome. I watched seaplanes all my life in Miami and finally got to ride in one. It was a life’s dream come true.

    I was so excited, but my wife was terrified and nearly did not get aboard… LOL LOL

    February 8, 2005 at 8:53 pm in reply to: even more amateur pics from downunder #1376074
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    Ditto, sort of

    Thanks for posting.

    Love that last shot, wish I had something like it!

    Richard.

    Loved that first shot, wish I had something like it… 😀

    December 1, 2004 at 11:19 pm in reply to: Quiz 3,000 – Wot aircraft am I? #1407709
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    whatzit?

    U R a Jeep!!!! 😀

    OK OK… how about a Piper Cub… or Stinson…

    No, too many survivors.

    A Kingfisher?

    October 27, 2004 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Neutron Bomb #2055131
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    so, dionis & flex, is this an honor on the battlefield thing?
    Going 1v1?
    Why do that when you save YOUR team’s lives by being stronger?
    Sure send in 100 if the opponent has 100? Right.

    October 26, 2004 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Ol munition found in Delaware (USA) with mustard gas #2055148
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    Now that I read your comment, I recall my junior high school principal could not talk above a wisper. He was gassed in WW1.

    October 26, 2004 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Aircraft Dumped & buried at Kenley? (2004 Zombie) #1363075
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    Speaking of old buried stuff… Maybe not old aircraft, but this very recently in the news, 3 airmen from Dover AFB, Delaware, were called to examine an old munition found in fill material dumped in a nearby driveway. It may have been an old WW1 artillery shell among masses of munitions back then disposed of at sea. It is believed to have apparently dredged up in fill used in driveways.
    One shell went off, and it had old but good mustard gas in it… An airman went to the hospital in pretty blistered up and others got ill. I saw a photo but can’t find it now. Nasty stuff! Lucky airman! The article says it is not uncommon to find old grenades in driveways using this type fill.

    http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/10/07mustardgasshell.html

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/08/03/security.mustard.reut/

    PS If anyone finds old Jeeps in crates, let me know!!! Thanks!!!!

    October 12, 2004 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Memorial for Capt Jason Dahl #620366
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    We live on in the memories of others….

    9 11

    Lest we forget!

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