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Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Was directed over here, but a couple goons went down to the Military Aviation Museum (http://militaryaviationmuseum.org) in south VA, and I grabbed a bunch of nifty photos: https://imgur.com/a/WsSLtCZ

EDIT: Crapton of WW1 planes, WW2, and experimental german stuff.

Vorkosigan fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Apr 23, 2018

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Mar 28, 2012



Maryland drivers :argh:

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012




Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


thesurlyspringKAA posted:

What museum is this that just has a big ol swastika flag hanging up?

Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach.

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Source4Leko posted:

This is why I fly United.

Goondolences on your future pet death and/or beating and removal from the flight.

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

Surely there is a gear down indicator

"A 72-year-old man from Alberta and his 59-year-old male passenger were on board."

:corsair:

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29292/you-can-buy-paul-allens-mig-29-fulcrum-jet-fighter

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Speaking of the SR71, just got my own piece of Insanity:




Had my eye on this for years even before I met my (now) fiancee, so as soon as she said yes I put in my order.

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Ok, dunno how many saw this the last time, but Big Headline said y'all might be interested in this, but MAH WAIFE's grandfather was a Pathfinder Navigator (381st Bomb Group, 535th Squadron, Ridgewell and 91st Bomb Group, 324th Squadron PFF, Bassingbourn). He wrote a big ol' history and got a bunch of buddies to contribute, and even made a CD of the memoirs that I've uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R...ShPYHdEn3u3kRd-

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Mr. Funny Pants posted:

Never mind!

The plane is a prop over the stage at an Iron Maiden concert. I assumed it was a solid model but I was just informed that it's a loving inflatable, which obviously means the lines aren't necessarily going to match reality. Bruce Dickinson referred to it as a Spitfire, hence the confusion.

AAAAACESSS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH



Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Cat Mattress posted:

Could they really be worse than Gearbox?

:allears:

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


https://www.flyingmag.com/interceptor-400-barn-discovery/

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


So, BH already found all the info about it that I was asking for, but thought y'all might like to see.

On vacation, my FIL told me a story about a ME109 pilot he knew as a kid (forget the name, will edit once he gets back to me) who after the war worked down in Venezuela for the oil companies, and bought a surplus F4F FM-2 Wildcat. Put in a few passenger seats in the hull and used it as a tiny airliner. They'd go upriver, catch fish, and put them in the .50cal ammo bays to keep cool on the way back down to the housing area. Apparently it got returned to the US and donated to a museum and he's been looking for it for the past few years.








Will see if he can send the pic of people putting fish in the ammo cans.

BH was able to find info immediatly since I'm blind and couldn't see one of the dashes in the tail number.

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Pilot's name was Walter Idel, apparently. FiL has some pics of the fish loading process:




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Mar 28, 2012


bull3964 posted:



I went back in 2019 and got a lot of nice pictures of Discovery and just spent a few hours there roaming around. Massively underrated.

Got one of my favorite pics of my older daughter there

Vorkosigan fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 23, 2023

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