Aircraft

[Tensleep]

Ever watch Tom Selleck in "High Road to China" ?

[Leo Tanner]

Missed that one, but if ya say it's good I'll look fer it.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Yessir, I like Tom when he has that stubbly beard.  Those planes look like Dehaviland Moths.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Probably are, TLD...............Buck

[Delmonico]

Ya know, I forgot somethin' I was tellin' buck Sunday, an old faded memory, stopped at the store Sunday for some rolls, was a little plane headed to the airport, and as I headed in Saw the Sunday Omaha World Hearald on the rack.

Back when I was young, Grandpagot it delivered to the fame by a single engine plane that came over low and tried to drop it in te pasture east of the house.  Remember how hard it was to read the funnies the time it hit the metal roofed garage.

[Leo Tanner]

Cool, we need a new paper boy.  At least ya'd know when it arrived.

[Texas Lawdog]

Texas Country Reporter did a story about an old fellow that was about 90 and still flew. She delivered newspapers to folks up in Alaska by air.

[Leo Tanner]

At the very end of this video there is an awsome shot of a four engine blowing a dam.  I paused it and tried to save it but no go.  Anyone knows how ta get me the pitcher gets a beer on me.

 

[Trinity]

It's almost too complicated to explain, so I'll just give you the basics.

Go to http://www.mediaconverter.org/ and download the video to your drive in the format of you choosing.  Then use a video editing software to grab the image.

On the other hand, the easiest way is to pause the video, press the print screen button.  Open paintbrush and Edit/Paste.  Then you can cut the rest of the junk out.

[Leo Tanner]

Thanks Trin, I'm still messing with it, but sure I'll get it right sooner er later.  It's a really neat picture.

[Russ T Chambers]

Leo
The painting is of a Avro Lancaster during the bombing of the dams in the Ruhr Valley.  I couldn't find a site with the painting shown, but this site has a slew of Dam buster paintings.

http://www.aviationartprints.com/the_dambusters.htm


PS  I always thought it was a great idea to use two converging spotlights to determine the exact altitude over the water to launch the bombs.

[Texas Lawdog]

We had a Lancaster fly out to Midland for the CAF AirSho a few years ago. It came from Canada. Those Lancasters are big planes.

[Russ T Chambers]

Avro also made another impressive bomber.  The Vulcan impressed the heck out of me when I saw it fly figure eights at about 500ft within the airport boundaries at Mitchell Field in Milwaukee.  (Watched Thunderball last night on TV. Too).

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Don't think there's but maybe two of those still airworthy. I know one belongs to the RAF over in England, believe I have a tape of the maintanence and crew flying it. Got it at Goodwill while Susie still worked there..........Buck

[Texas Lawdog]

I got to meet an RAF crew of a Nimrod anti-sub plane that flew from Northern Scotland to Midland for the AirSho.  They had the Bombay area loaded with cases of Guiness Stout.  I helped em drink a few of those cases that weekend.  By the way, Guiness tastes pretty good with BBQ.

[Frenchie]

ENGLAND FOREVER

Scotland a wee bit longer

Vive la france!

[Leo Tanner]

Thank you Russ.  Good stuff in that link.

[Leo Tanner]

Got lost on that site fer awhile.  Get a kick out of those Brits, they named the dambusting "operation chastise".
Can just hear, "Don't mess with me Gerry, I'll be forced to firmly chastise you!"

[Texas Lawdog]

Them Brits are the original "tight a$$es".

[Leo Tanner]

Funny the Brits come up.  Watchin a show on National Geographic channel called "Air Emergency--Ripped from the cockpit".  It's an amazing true story about somthin that happened on a Brittish Airways flight.  If you get a chance to watch it, do.  It all comes down to some bolts mis-sized by .200th of an inch.  I'm still scratchin ma head over it.