Kittyhawk
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No one ordered this aeroplane.
I built it just because I wanted to and I'm allowed. My wife said so.
I built it just because I wanted to and I'm allowed. My wife said so.
Beautiful!No one ordered this aeroplane.
I built it just because I wanted to and I'm allowed. My wife said so.
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No, but it would be a fun job. The only airliner I've built was the Douglas DC3 Dacota and the C47 military version. Same aeroplane except the C47 had a cargo door and a slightly modified tail that enabled it to tow gliders.Have you ever made a 747?
No, but it comes with a degree of guilt. The patient child bride's to-do list is lengthening..(sigh)another great job.....
no time to be bored then......?
No one ordered this aeroplane.
I built it just because I wanted to and I'm allowed. My wife said so.
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That’s excellent. We had one of those crash in the field outside our house when I was a kid back in the early 70s. Story here
That’s excellent. We had one of those crash in the field outside our house when I was a kid back in the early 70s. Story here
Was that in the 70'? I used to know a technician with the Arrows (would have been Gnats then). He explained that the techies would travel in the spare seats from venue to venue. On that occasion they decided to carryout the maneuver before dropping off the passengers. The crash occurred because they didn't take account of the extra momentum of the extra body.Red Arrows who was based there and we saw them crash when practised there love heart Manoeuvre where they fly at each other then bank left and right then fly upwards into a heart shape.
... and another at the Midland Air Museum, Baginton, CoventryThere is one sitting in the Solway aviation musuem just outside Carlise.
In the '60s I lived in Surrey and clearly remember a Vulcan flying low, presumably on its way to or from BAC Weybridge. Never heard anything so deafening before or since!Gorgeous As were the real ones ..grew up around them when I lived in the UK ( my folks were in the RAF ) , saw , heard, felt them flying many a time when we lived on the bases they flew from.Also picked mushrooms in the fog in the early hours of the morning from the grass underneath the Vulcan ( it was parked at the side of the runways near where we kept our caravan in a hanger , when RAF Cosford first got a Vulcan and also a Valiant or a Victor ( I forget which of the last two the other one was ) and kept them outside. One of my cellphones has a Vulcan howl as it's ringtone..Hell hound coming in low. Used to love to watch them take off and climb full chat.
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