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sinister You notice the grass around the wreakage looks much longer and healthier?
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Tango Go easy on the Angels, if you ever get the chance to meet them and shake their hand, you would find them to be very humble, down to earth people. no arrogance whatsoever. they just have one of...
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sinister I think the grounds keeper at this airport needs to be fired. I've seen grass on the runway but this is getting out of hand!
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Tango And for the extra point...what was the name of that first prototype?... That's right "ENTERPRISE"! I went to VAFB and stood on the tarmac along with news crews and hundreds of others watching...
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Tango too true, the real things were big monsters on the ground, wait, they were big, fast, monsters in the air too. Sure do miss those old prop jobs. yeah, modern technology is pretty groovy, but to...
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Tango Am Friends with a F4U pilot, flew under Pappy for a while, there was a quiet rivalry between the F4U and the P51 guys, (Marines vs Airforce of course there is gonna be rivalry) He speaks of his...
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to the wannabe acrobat pilots. I learned sometime ago (in the cockpit of a Pitts S1-A) not to criticize something I cannot do myself. Whether it be football (any countries version) Ice hockey, tandem...
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Tango WHAT!?! it comes OPEN!?!? and we have been FLYING AROUND IN IT?!?
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Tango Not a wannabe, he actually has all the credentials to fly just about anything out there...besides, I believe it is his plane, and he can dress however the heck he wants to.
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Tsuru Aircraft Tires are the only ones still made from real rubber, everything else from wheelbarrows to dump-truck tires use synthetic compounding. Same goes for tubes as well.
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Tango Sorry, I cannot help but look at this and think "this would fit in any opening scene montage from any Monty Python show...".
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Tango Notice the guy on the far left with the Fire Extinguisher, he is looking, but seems unfazed by the event...so it must be (as was mentioned) a "New Startup" otherwise I think he would be a blur -...
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Tango This was an an airshow, the "engine failure" and stallout were intentional. like the old "Oh my goodness his engine has quit" routine with the Benson Gyrocopters, it makes the little kids gasp,...
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Tango looks similar to this exhibit at the National Aviation Museum at Pensacola, FL http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/getdoc/1da8b94f-2f35-4154-8244-c9bec1ba6240/Underwater-Treasures. aspx it isn't....
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Tango sooo...the windows are now used as a 'Fluid Level Gauge'?
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Tango Here's your answer: http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/ Just remember, the "Blue Angels" are not just the pilots who fly, but everyone behind the scenes that make it happen, the support and aircrews...
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Tango Ok, say you land at a remote field somewhere...and there is no one to meet your plane...what do you do? open the canopy and fall the heck out? Then what? (I am glad we learned from this and...
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