Planes!

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Staggerwing

IMHO, no Harriers for Turkey, though I'd be in favor of Jump-Jets going to the Kurdistani AF, as it were. Also I'm good with Taiwan and Vietnam and any other country on the 'wrong' side of the 'nine dash line', just to mess with the People's Army-Navy Store a little.
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mirth

Quote from: Staggerwing on December 07, 2017, 09:31:08 PM
Also I'm good with Taiwan and Vietnam and any other country on the 'wrong' side of the 'nine dash line', just to mess with the People's Army-Navy Store a little.

+1
"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

"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

Staggerwing

Some canvas patches and a lick or two of dope and she'll be right as rain.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bob48

I've got an old bit of plywood in the garage which is just the right shape for the tail fin.
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'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

besilarius

http://worldwarwings.com/rare-footage-wwi-dogfights-not-many-clips-around-anymore/?a=mk&var=wwi+dogs-ww2&utm_campaign=wwi+dogs&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=original-ww2-mk&utm_content=footage

Some nice vviews of WWI planes.  I would quibble that they spliced in shots from movies like Wings or Hell's Angels in amongst the historical shots.
Haven't seen the whole episode but looks fun for the biplane crowd.
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Quote from: mirth on December 08, 2017, 03:50:28 PM
https://twitter.com/PeteNorth303/status/938814969885446146
Knowing what fake BS is around on the internet today, the image of the plane is probably taken from some scrap yard in India.

But - what a lovely plane  O0 :smitten:
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Staggerwing

Do English Androids dream of electric cows?
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bob48

No idea. The only way to find that out is to take the bull by the horns.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

mirth

"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

QuoteF4U-4B overflies the USS Missouri (BB-63) off Inchon, Korea , 15 September 1950

"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

WOW! As big as I thought the Iowa-class BB's are, look at it compared to the cargo and transport ships....  :o

bob48

I do so like the F4U.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

mirth

Quote from: bob48 on December 15, 2017, 08:33:53 AM
I do so like the F4U.

+1 One of my favorites from that era.
"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

QuoteA Vought F-8H Crusader VF-111 "Sundowners", on the forward elevator of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in 1969 during a deployment to Vietnam.

"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