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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Barn Army Alert .............
15 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Ahhhhhhhh! The B-47, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly.
Dibs on the radar directed gun position!!
Brigadier Major Mike -
10/18/11, 8:21 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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DONE!
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10/18/11, 8:57 AM
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george said...
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My good King, please include a "NSFW" when you link these things.
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10/18/11, 9:05 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I saw that website awhile back. Sportin some serious wood here boss.
Tim -
10/18/11, 9:41 AM
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TimO said...
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I got to go out there a couple of years ago... lots emptier now but they have preserved some classics in rows along the tour bus route- the only way you can go through now.
The Pima Air & Space Museum (http://www.pimaair.org/) down the road is a great several-day collection where you can walk right up and touch to a load of history and a stop any aviation buff should go to.
I'd go again in a heartbeat. -
10/18/11, 9:54 AM
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Anonymous said...
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From back when the USA was serious about air power...
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10/18/11, 9:58 AM
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orbitup said...
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Great link! Thanks.
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10/18/11, 10:26 AM
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JMcD said...
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Seeing all those pictures makes me wonder, where did all the old flying boats like the P5M go to die?
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10/18/11, 12:42 PM
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Anonymous said...
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They very well may be there. Tons of planes all around Davis Monthon. Too many to see in just a couple of days. The Pima Air museum had several flying boats years ago.
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10/18/11, 3:50 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Jim, there's one on a stand in the courtyard of the Space & Aviation Museum in Balboa Park in San Diego. They built them there. If you look over at North Island across the bay, you can see the ramps from which they were launched and recovered.
Casca -
10/18/11, 4:27 PM
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JMcD said...
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Thanks Casca
It's just nostalgia.
Back in the second half of the fifties I was in a FASRON outfit in Bermuda for two years, where we serviced two flying boat outfits.
Ah those happy and sh*tty days of yesteryear. -
10/18/11, 6:48 PM
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BruHa said...
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A-3 Skywarrior Wow! That brings back some memories. Nothing scarier than standing @ the foul line when one of those beasts catches the wire.....
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10/18/11, 10:16 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Damn you guys are old. Flying boats? Even P-2 Neptunes were antiques when I was flying.
Tim -
10/18/11, 11:04 PM
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Kim said...
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Is it wrong that the rocket pods on the Douglas A-1 Skyraider gave me a slight woody?
All I could think of was strafing the OWS rally... -
10/19/11, 8:14 AM
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Anonymous said...
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My folks retired in Green Valley, south of Tucson. Before a series of strokes took Dad Anthony, he and I visited the Pima Air Museum at Davis-Monthan. Poppo drove a Consolidated B-24 in the Pacific theater. We got to get up close and personal with one out in field. A docent noticed us talking, pointing and laughing. He asked Dad if he wanted to get inside...."Hell NO! I spent too damn many hours cooped up in that cramped cockpit!" and he laughed, his old blue eyes twinkling.
Sure do miss that ol' South Carolinian gentleman.
-Sven in Colorado -
10/19/11, 9:50 AM
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