Planes
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@R-L I've still got that loving feeling - the Rayban aviators are long gone though.
I actually took @Bones Honey's advice and went for a pootle in my Liklik balus the other day to give the engine a run. CAA have approved maintenance on aircraft under level 3 so is legit. Thought that I might do a Captain Tom (I really wish he was a Major) and just taxi up and down the airstrip 100 times.
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@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
Yes. Yes I did.
I still do, sadly Val doesn't. -
@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
Yes that’s how he gets all his new friends I mean victims..
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@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
My guess is Jeffrey Dahmer..
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
I was never in the military (in other words I always had a real job) but let's stick with the theme - I'll be "Killer".
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Crazy cloggy!
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Crazy cloggy!
Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?
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Metal by the time of the "Battle of Britain". Flight controls were still fabric I think. Fuselage was timber stringers covered in doped linen. Took about 2/3 of the amount of time to build as a spitfire. 10,000 hour off the top of my head.
Can well believe it. Just building a Guillows Spitfire balsa & tissue kit and the elliptical wings - groundbreaking for their time - are a real bitch to cover properly.
Bloody nightmare.
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Crazy cloggy!
Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?
Confirm mental unfitness?
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@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
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@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:
@Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.
As someone once said to Wilbur Wright
This guy arguably did it first. But in true kiwi style didn't make a deal out of it so he is a footnote instead of the main man
Richard Pearse - Wikipedia
