[Roadsters] OT: vintage pics for aircraft buffs

[RWM]

No argument there!  And jealous of your ride...



Gary McCormick wrote:

>Those "round motors" sure sound great, but oh! the sound of a Merlin! V-12, 1710 CI... I get shivers down my spine just thinking about it...
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>Gary McCormick
>San Jose, CA
>(Flashing back to my ride in a P-51 Mustang, 10 years ago - 250 knots IAS, 50 feet off the deck - Sweet Mother of Pearl!)
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>RWM <RWM at RWMann.com> wrote: There is an A-12 on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid -- which NYC hopes 
>to get back in a year or so after it is refitted.
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>Not sure where it originated or its planned route of flight, but late 
>Monday afternoon we had a B-17 at about 5,000 feet and climbing out over 
>Oyster Bay/Long Island Sound headed roughly north-west. No red fin, so 
>it wasn't the Collings airplane "909".  Can't mistake the sound of those 
>radials at high power.
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>stl at adnc.com wrote:
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>>Gordon,
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>>There is a Blackbird at the entrance of the San Diego Air and Space  
>>Museum in Balboa Park next to a Sea Dart, of all things.  Quite a  
>>contrast of technologies.  The Blackbird looks wicked indeed.
>>
>>It is saying something that P-38's still capture the imagination long  
>>after the advent of jets and moon walks.
>>
>>Steve Landuyt
>>'69 2000
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>>Quoting Gordon Glasgow :
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>>>Very nice! I love the P-38s.
>>>
>>>BTW, anyone who makes it to Seattle should visit the Museum of Flight
>>>(www.museumofflight.org). They've got a huge collection of planes (here's
>>>the list: http://www.museumofflight.org/Display.asp?Page=airspace).
>>>
>>>And it's the only place I know of where you can walk around a Blackbird. For
>>>a plane that doesn't even have weapons, it just looks wicked!
>>>
>>>Gordon Glasgow