The Great British Fly In this weekend

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besilarius

April 12, 2018, 06:14:21 AM
https://airandspace.si.edu/events/great-british-fly-in

The Air and Space Museum is hosting a fly in and day long celebration of the RAF on April 15. 
Besides a Spitfire, a Lancaster, and the Luftstache, there will be Mustangs and a Mitchell.
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mirth

#1
April 12, 2018, 07:01:04 AM
Meh. They don't have Bob's Stache.
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Sir Slash

#2
April 12, 2018, 11:40:06 AM
That's cool. I'd love to be there to see it. Our local cemetery here has a, "British Cemetery" that includes 42 RAF pilots killed while training here in WWII. Thank you all for your service.
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trailrunner

#3
April 12, 2018, 03:02:52 PM
I'm planning on going to this.

DoctorQuest

#4
April 12, 2018, 04:10:17 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on April 12, 2018, 03:02:52 PM
I'm planning on going to this.

Oh man. I would if I could. Enjoy, TR!
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mirth

#5
April 13, 2018, 08:06:26 AM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

#6
April 13, 2018, 11:28:16 AM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart

#7
April 13, 2018, 11:36:31 AM
 O0

Sir Slash

#8
April 13, 2018, 01:39:05 PM
Beautiful airplane!  :smitten:
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bbmike

#9
April 13, 2018, 04:11:20 PM
Too bad this isn't happening at the Independence Ave Air and Space Museum.  :(
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besilarius

#10
April 13, 2018, 09:37:12 PM
Landing, and then taking off, from the mall would be an interesting, exciting challenge.
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

DoctorQuest

#11
April 13, 2018, 10:08:31 PM
Quote from: besilarius on April 13, 2018, 09:37:12 PM
Landing, and then taking off, from the mall would be an interesting, exciting challenge.

Not to mention a challenge for the Secret Service.
"Everything you read on the internet is true." - Benjamin Franklin

"Zero-G and I feel fine....." - John Glenn

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage, inventor of the alternative fact.

trailrunner

#12
April 14, 2018, 12:09:24 PM
Just found out that because of potential bad weather, they are flying the planes into Udvar Hazy this afternoon instead of tomorrow morning, so we'll miss the fly-in.  We'll still get to see them on display.   :bd:

bbmike

#13
April 14, 2018, 12:24:18 PM
Quote from: besilarius on April 13, 2018, 09:37:12 PM
Landing, and then taking off, from the mall would be an interesting, exciting challenge.

These chaps are quite capable.  O0
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#14
April 14, 2018, 05:39:03 PM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus
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