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11/13/09
A true Battle of Britain participant - a rare bird in the air.... #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
Need to park one of these in Trafalgar Square as well.... owned by Paul Allen - flown this past September... #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
Current Collection:
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny
Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk
Fieseler Fi 156-C2 Storch
Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-13 Dora
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Hawker Hurricane Mk.XIIA
Messerschmitt 163B Komet
Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Emil
Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Zero-Sen
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa Oscar
North American P-51D Mustang
Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 Rata
Polikarpov U-2/PO-2
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc
The absolutely coolest thing ever is to go up to the field on 'fly days' when they take the planes out for exercise. You don't get to see warbirds actually fly all that often... #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
@f/1.4 is the new f/2.8:
Like this??? #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
. #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
[www.youtube.com] #supermarinespitfire
11/13/09
Its almost like saying that Ford is a British Car Company because they manufacture cars in Britain, or that Honda is an American Company because they manufacture cars in Ohio.
There really is no British Car Companies any longer with the exception of a (very) few of the cottage industry car makers like Bristol or Morgan.
Maybe that's the road that we will eventually go down as well, because the American Car Industry looks pretty grim, with a few gleaming examples from Ford.
Anyway, back to this post. Having Lotus wear its British Heritage like a war medal it just a bit preposterous. It is all a publicity stunt. #supermarinespitfire
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Did I say "unholy"? I meant "glorious". #supermarinespitfire
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03/23/09
Diddles, where are your Planeopnik posts? Come on, my friend. Post something like a comparo of the F-22 vs. F-23!
03/23/09
Johnny: Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
03/23/09
Nice.
And stop calling me Shirley.
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And Leon is getting LAAAAARRRRGGEERRR!
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That 3rd plane isn't. The vertical stabilizer is too vertical and the rudder isn't rounded like the Yaks.
03/23/09
On the ground there is a mix of Cessnas, Lears and a bunch of other stuff that I don't have time to look up right now.
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I got over that after flying in to the airport in my parents home town. Ron White's joke about the "Trail Airport, Hair Care and Tire Center" would be appropriate, except that the airport is literally a 10' x 12' shack with a counter and a shelf they unload your luggage onto. Entire working population of the airport: 1. One person.
In order to fly into this airport, they drop down to about 1000 feet, and fly the last 15 minutes of the flight through the mountains. Apparently trying to approach into an airport in a low valley of the Rocky Mountains in a tiny plane is impossible from above because of all the thermals that get kicked up. Trying to dive through those makes for an unpleasant flight. So instead, they weave through the valley itself.
The plane's about the same size on the inside as a 15-passenger van, maybe a touch bigger, so some of the passengers felt pretty claustrophobic. Then, to be weaving and ducking between all these mountains. Yeah, there were a few people who were clutching their paper bags, just in case.
Strangely, though, that flight cured both my claustrophobia and my vertigo.