Aircraft

[Steel Horse Bailey]

 

LoL!


That's funny .... but has been proven to be an Internet legend, last I heard!  But it makes a great story ... and certainly SOUNDS as if it could happen!

[Leo Tanner]

LoL!


That's funny .... but has been proven to be an Internet legend, last I heard!  But it makes a great story ... and certainly SOUNDS as if it could happen!

I figured as much but it could happen.  It was on a show called 1000 Ways to Die.  I think 90% of their stories are BS.

[Texas Lawdog]

They always told us that two things fall out of the sky,  IDIOTS and BIRD CRAP!

[Arcey]

In keepin' wit that thought:



A contrail?

[Leo Tanner]

They always told us that two things fall out of the sky,  IDIOTS and BIRD CRAP!

I bet that goes over real well at an Air Born Ranger get together.

[Texas Lawdog]

Yessir!  Non-Jumpers are refered to as LEGS!

[Forty Rod]

Yessir!  Non-Jumpers are refered to as LEGS!

After the jump is over and they've shed the 'chutes, so are Paratroopers.   

[Leo Tanner]

After the jump is over and they've shed the 'chutes, so are Paratroopers.   

Ask the guys that got dropped in france, a couple minutes of fallin from the sky was nothing compared to what they did on the ground.  I talked to a few an they got some stories.

[Texas Lawdog]

The Legend of the 82nd and 101st was forged on D-day and rest of the European Campaign.  Those young jumper are proud of their heritage.   I have been working on ideas for our patch and caps for the Invader Squadron.  I am not an artist, so I am justing writing down ideas instead on drawing stuff.

[Leo Tanner]

Here ya go...

[Texas Lawdog]

There great Airborne Museums at Fort Bragg, N C for the 82nd and Fort Campbell, Ky for the 101st.  The Corvette Museum  is in nearby Bowling Green, Ky.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo,   On 4-21,  Planes of Fame Museum in Chino will be hosting the EAA's B-17, "Aluminum Overcast".  The Museum is restoring the B-17 used in the TV show "Twelve O'Clock High",  "Picadilly Lilly" and they have the "Swamp Ghost" a B-17 wreckage recovered from New Guiena. It was shot down by the Japanese on it's first bombing mission.

[Leo Tanner]

I'm looking into it now Pop.  That is the day before my anniversary and it would be nice to make it.  Lil likes the planes too.  17s are close to her heart.

[Major E A Sterner]

Don't know if this has been posted, but here is a video of "FIFI" on her first flight with her new engines


http://vimeo.com/17388627

[Leo Tanner]

That was great Major.  Thank you for posting.

[Major E A Sterner]

Yer Welcome...

[Texas Lawdog]

All the engine work was done at the maintence hangar at the CAF HQ at Midland, Tx.  Mr. Cavanaugh donated 3M to have the engines rebuilt in return,  "FIFI" and "Ol 927"(B-24A) will be hangared at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison,Tx. "FIFI" is the only flying B-29 in existence. The B-29 is the largest Warplane that can be owned privately.

[Texas Lawdog]

I just read an article on Yahoo about a WW2 bomber was found upside down in 50 feet of water in the English Channel off the English coast. It is a Dornier 17 whcih carried a crew of 4. I was shot down in 1940, during the Battle Of Britain.  Folks are trying to raise money to recover the aircraft. There only about 1100 of these aircraft built.

[Leo Tanner]

I just read an article on Yahoo about a WW2 bomber was found upside down in 50 feet of water in the English Channel off the English coast. It is a Dornier 17 whcih carried a crew of 4. I was shot down in 1940, during the Battle Of Britain.  Folks are trying to raise money to recover the aircraft. There only about 1100 of these aircraft built.

I can almost guarantee there is someone out there with enough interest and money to bring her back to shore and fix her up.  At 50 feet I am surprised it took them this long to find and identify it.

[Leo Tanner]

nazi plane.  The RAF wants it for their museum so it will probably see day light again.  They were supposed to be bombers that could out maneuver fighters.  Guess they were wrong.   

[Texas Lawdog]

The Dornier was built as a commercial airliner to get around the fact that Germany was forbid to build war planes after WW1.

[Texas Lawdog]

I got an e-mail last night that the A-26 completed it's flight from Midland to Breckenridge without any hitches. I am planning on getting out there to take a look at it.  We have to go to Waco and bring back spare parts stored at the old squadron HQ.

[Arcey]

Early Saturday mornin’ it Roundup, I hadn’t put my cowboy hat on. Was still wearin’ my Corsair ball cap from Pungo. Ole fella noticed it. Turned out his momma ‘n an aunt ferried aircraft from place to place here in the USA to points of departure for overseas deployment.

Wish we’d had more time ta talk.

[Leo Tanner]

Corsair was the first model I built with ma dad.  His favorite war plane an a good friend/mentor of his flew it.  Used ta talk about how strong the engine was an only so many guys in the USAAC had the strength ta control em.

[John Frederick Bell]

Breaking topic, but it's got wings so I figure it counts. 

Dunno if anybody hereabouts is closet co Clayton, New Mexico, but I'm lurking in town for a couple of days before I get back to work.  I was out running picking up lunch earlier when I noticed a pall of smoke north of town.  Some kind of grass fire, I imagine. 

Either way, I was sitting at the light when I first saw, and not but a couple of seconds later here comes a P-3 in AeroUnion colors, (which I may or may not have fueled back when I doing line service - didn't get a good enough look to catch the numbers on the tail).  AeroUnion's are the birds painted up orange and white.  Sort of looks like USCG colors, but not.

Anyhoo, I drove out to the edge of town and watched the fire suppression guys make their pass.  Didn't stick around too long after the fact, but it was a pretty good show while it lasted. 

This isn't my picture, but here's one of their birds on the ramp at TSTC, where I used to work. 



I don't care much for the P-3 in general, but I'm inclined to admit it's a pretty slick bird in those colors.