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    Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle

    2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart

    Coxtabulous!

    If It Worked For The Thunderbolt...
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    Fucking awesome. I love it.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    I kept waiting for the deployment of bright yellow canary decoys to draw the raptor's attention away...
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    This business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    Someone tell R2D2 to stop screaming.
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Syrax: I have no clue why you didn't have a heart from me before now, I'm sorry. I gave you a click immediately after I recovered from the excruciatingly painful belly laugh I suffered from watching it again after reading your comment.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/22/09

    @G-Ram caved and started twitter :/: ❤-click too.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Syrax: Being funny, eh? Remember the contract...
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: I wasn't being funny. He's the one who laughed.
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    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Syrax: Yeah, it really wasn't that funny...
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: See, told ya.
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    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Syrax: Yeah. I wonder when either of us will win COTD.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer:

    Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

    Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)


    A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

    Dutch Proverb


    If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)


    There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

    Richard Rybolt


    Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

    Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

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    06/22/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Syrax: Well said. Well said.
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    Image of Karpet Karpet
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    Um...fake? While I think this really happened, I believe it to be staged. Don't ask me why it is just a hunch gang. My guess, a falconer or falconer club built a training drone to work with there real birds. I have seen rear mounted cameras on R/C planes before but everything is a little too neat and tidy to be an accident.


    Also the raptor looks to have a lanyard on its talon.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    06/22/09

    @Karpet: Not fake, in the shots when the real bird is further away, you can see another smaller bird trying to chase it off.
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    That is awesome!
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    Image of Iron coffin doesn't swerve for pelicans Iron coffin doesn't swerve for pelicans
    06/22/09

    In reply to Man Battles Nature In Colossal Remote Control Air Battle
    That video would be soooooooooo much better with the Top Gun theme song.


    /vacuous comment

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/22/09

    @speedy998: @speedy998: This would probably be a better fit:
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    06/22/09

    @speedy998: Funny, as I watched it I played "Mighty Wings" by Cheap Trick from the "Top Gun" soundtrack. Works great.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    These military tribute Fords have come a long ways...


    I remember the Nimitz class 1977 Ford LTD Country Squire wagon, which only came in gunmetal grey with white landing strips painted from nose to tailgate.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    Would it be gauche to point out that the P-51 had a Rolls Royce-designed powerplant? What a great contrast.


    "Pardon me, give me the f*cking Grey Poupon NOW."

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    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    Right,can someone explain why the Mustang is do disliked & mocked at every oppertunity,yet if someone dares to not like a Vette some people get defensive? If you asked most people outside America to name an American car they'd say Mustang,even watching old movies it comes across like the Mustang is the all American car hero & the Vette just a cheap/fast mid-life crisis car.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    The point they neglect to mention in the press release is that the primary reason for the steep purchase price is the other standard equipment. In addition to a bunch of fancy performance stuff, they're equipped with six .50 calibre forward-firing Browning machine guns. You don't lose many races when your competitors see those fuckers pointed at them.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    So... a few of them will be shipped to Japan, but the vast majority will be shipped to England. Once in England, they will be painted with big black-and-white stripes on the sides, and shipped en masse to Europe.


    Come, come lads, we must confound Jerry at every turn!

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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    11/12/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    I drove a Shelby GT500 to Kinko's once.


    Guy in the Kinko's lot: "Wow, is that a REAL one?"

    Me: "A real one what?"

    Guy: (Silently pondering the thousands of special-edition Mustangs)


    Actually, I've gotten a turn behind the wheel of a lot of these things, and my favorite is the RAGT5MT. That'd be Regular-Ass GT with a 5-speed. You can have the rest of 'em.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    11/12/08

    @theeastbaykid: Here here.


    I'm in the middle of writing an automotive dissertation on why the GT (preferably used) represents the best Mustang out there.


    At ~$25k new, it's a pretty good deal for a really fun car that's not particularly sophisticated. At 30k and up...they're all just $25k cars with more horsepower and various kits.


    ...and really they're all $18k cars with less miles, because that's what a used GT goes for.


    Do wish the GT had a 6 speed, though...

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    11/11/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    I'll take the one with the Packard/Rolls V12. Thanks.
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    11/12/08

    @dohcspit: Merlin FTW!
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/11/08

    In reply to 2009 Roush P-51B Mustang Dogfights Its Way Into Your Heart
    What is Ford going to do now, make a B-36 Edition F350?


    Whatever, I'm done with this pony, in any form. I thought it looked good when I first saw it, very retro. But you know what, you can have too much of a good thing. (PT Cruiser) Its time to put this pony out to pasture.


    Except for the Bullitt. Damn, McQueen is so cool. They could make a Bullitt edition Focus, and I would be tempted to buy it. As long as it was one McQueen would be proud of, and I would think that he would be as ashamed of it.


    Remember, in Bullitt, that Mustang required serious modifications to keep up with the big Charger.

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