I'm glad to see this thread is still up, because I just found a "must have" book for anyone who loves airplanes, likes to read about them, or look at pictures of them. I've probably had this book for 3 or 4 years, but I had forgotten about it until yesterday; I received an email which led me to want...
Jump to postIf you like to read about spy planes and the guys who flew them, take this link to the Roadrunner's website; lot of very interesting stories here, and it's all free.
http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/
With as many replies as there has been up to this point, it's tough to know exactly what has, and what hasn't been shown in other posts. After just now reading this account, I think it tends to address a few pretty important things. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-san-francisco-plane...
Jump to postAfter first checking (and not seeing another post about this), now that this post is up, I see another earlier post. I'm sure the moderators will know the best way to handle it ?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/johns624" class="quote" target="_blank">johns624</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Nope. He was seventh on the list. Bong, Ma...
Jump to postJust saw this on Yahoo; an F-16 being flown by a student pilot and an instructor pilot reported a bird strike shortly after take off from Luke AFB; both pilots ejected at low altitude, and both landed without injuries; ( the A/C caused a large, smoking hole in the ground ) <a href="http://news.yahoo...
Jump to postThis link will take you to the remarkable story of <acronym title="bmibaby (United Kingdom)">WW</acronym> 2 Marine Corps aviator Joe Foss. You can read how Joe Foss shot down 14 Japanese planes in just 13 days, how he was shot down himself and almost drowned, and how he between 9 October and 19 Octo...
Jump to postFLPhoto; If you're wondering what photos taken with a D 300 look like, take a good long look at Sam Chui's pics on the forum; I think every picture Sam put on here until he finally bought a D 800 was made with his trusty "old" D 300; you can also take a look at some of Agustin Anaya's fabulous F-22 ...
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Jump to postOne thing that no one has mentioned yet about the D-300s..........there are literally thousands of Nikon shooters waiting for Nikon to come out with a new D-400; the prices on the 300s are already way down from what they were when it first came out, and when the D-400 does come out, prices on the 30...
Jump to postIn the late 1950's or early 1960, and a year or so before the B 707 became the first commercial jet airliner in the U.S., old Piedmont Airlines operated twin engined Martin 404's ; the 404's has a self contained airstair which extended out of the underneath of the tail towards the rear, much like th...
Jump to postThe famous AVG (American Volunteer Group), better known as "The Flying Tigers", were formed in China by American pilots who were allowed to temporarily resign their commissions from the U.S. Military to help the Nationalist Chinese fight the Japanese. This link is to a story which appeared in Life M...
Jump to postThe main reason everyone has their shorts in a wad over the NSA's "supposedly" spying on people's telephone calls, is because they are completely lacking in understanding exactly how the program "works"; first of all, before anyone in the government can actually "listen" to you phone conversation, t...
Jump to postGuess what ? All that data that you create and that gets stored in "a cloud" ? It's really NOT stored in a "cloud" at all; it's stored on a great big hard drive in a run-down warehouse in a bad neighborhood someplace ! ( which could probably be easily accessed by hackers, burglars, homeless bums, or...
Jump to postRemember the Boston Marathon bombing ? According to FBI Director Robert Mueller's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, the FBI had "alleged" bomber, T. Tsarnaev on it's radar several times prior to the Boston Bombing, also they supposedly conducted an "investigation" of Tsarnaev, yet h...
Jump to postAnyone who is young live in Ohio ? Better hold your breath when you pay for your healthcare insurance next year. <a href="http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ohio-proof-that-obamacare-rate-shock-is-real.html/?ref=YF" target="_blank">http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/o...re-rate-shock-is-real.html/?r...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/blueflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">blueflyer</a> (<a href="#70" class="quote">Reply 70</a>):<br/><i>In the meantime, I'm going to make sur...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/L-188" class="quote" target="_blank">L-188</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>It would shock me if Verizon was the only tele...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/dandy_don" class="quote" target="_blank">dandy_don</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>During initial sea (lake?) trials the ...
Jump to postEver been to Chicago's Midway Airport ? Recently ? Or a long time ago ? It hasn't always looked like it does now; did you know that in the early days, there was a railroad that ran right through the center of it ! Thanks to the good old Chicago Tribune, here are a collection of pictures taken back i...
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Jump to postI'm amazed that I had never heard about this before ! How many knew that at one point, the U.S. Navy operated aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes ? I just recently heard about this in an email from a friend. Either shortly before or shortly after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy realized that they were ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Rather, she's saying that what they're doing now is ...
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Jump to postFinally ! Hers's one you may actually agree with; "Actually, the title of the article is: MSNBC Anchor Compares Gitmo Detainees To American Slaves" ( Maybe they need to make that dinky box a little bigger ? ) My obligatory opinion on that needs only two letters......Bravo Sierra <a href="http://www....
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/YYZatcboy" class="quote" target="_blank">YYZatcboy</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Bull! In customs yes, but I have never s...
Jump to postI'm surprised no one has mentioned this........regardless of what you call it, a Tattoo, a "Symbol", a "picture".....there's quite a difference in having it on the vertical tail of an airliner, and having it on an employees skin. Every time a tattoo story come up, (and they come up all the time), th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mayor" class="quote" target="_blank">mayor</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Is <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson ...
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Jump to postI know many don't like NewsMax as a source of information; that's too bad; much of the information NewsMax provides is not provided by any of the usual blogs you seem to favor; also, a lot of the information provided by NewsMax has nothing to do with politics. If you live in the U.S., you may have n...
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Jump to postI'll bet there will be a lot of opinions about this; this writer claims to have interviewed a number of airline pilots to see which U.S. airports they considered to be the most challenging; I can agree with a few of them, a few I have never been to, so have no opinion about, and a couple more..........
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/blueflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">blueflyer</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>So glad we have our next dose of controv...
Jump to postLMAO..........Dry jerky ? The whole point of jerky is to get rid of the water, partly to reduce the weight, and partly to make it "keep"; if you lay meat in the sun, it will rot; (as I'm sure you already know); take all the water out.....and it will "keep" MUCH longer; (you "re-hydrate" it when you ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/steeler83" class="quote" target="_blank">steeler83</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Hmmm. I'm a bit adventurous. Maybe I'll ...
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Jump to postI just noticed this while scanning the news today; It sounds bad, but it also begs some questions; What foreign company is Mr. Buffenbarger referring to ? What U.S. built A/C is he referring to ? And who <acronym title="Island Airlines (USA) and Eagle Air/Arnaflug (Iceland)">IS</acronym> Mr. Buffenb...
Jump to postI already know many people on this forum support Obama; what I have always wondered is........how much do you REALLY know about Obamacare ? I just ran across this as I was about to shut down and go to bed; I didn't really have time to read a very long article, but this wasn't very long, so it didn't...
Jump to postI can see this idea from both sides; to start with, If I had my way, the tolerance would be .000 How much tolerance does a professional airline pilot have when he comes to work ? ( no alcohol in the last 8 hours ? ) I'm not against people drinking, especially if they know when to stop; ( many people...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/steeler83" class="quote" target="_blank">steeler83</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i> The following year, my cousin got marri...
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Jump to postI haven't had time to read more than maybe a dozen replies, so for all I know, you may have already seen this picture; together with the attendent story, I can now easily see what happened to cause this incident; IMO, a whole BUNCH of people "screwed up"........including the State of Washington. The...
Jump to postI very seldom respond to a thread like this, as I seldom feel that I have anything significant enough to add to the discussion; in this case, (and thanks to the fine pictures, I <acronym title="Air Vallee (Italy)">DO</acronym> have something to add ), that I have been thinking about for a very long ...
Jump to post[quote=Superfly,reply=30]That may be true but what if the snake is hungry? Considering this particular snake was out of it's natural habitat inside the walls of an apartment building in Los Angeles, it's possible that it could have posed a threat. It was in a nice clean apartment building with no ra...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Darksnowynight" class="quote" target="_blank">Darksnowynight</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>What I don't understand is w...
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