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Posted on 06/05/2005 6:12:36 AM PDT by Budgie
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:12:37 AM PDT
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Budgie
To: Budgie
Thanx for sharing!
And welcome to FR
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:14:31 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Budgie
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:14:54 AM PDT
by
Budgie
To: F14 Pilot
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:15:09 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Budgie
Welcome to FR Budgie! Thanks for posting these great pictures.
To: Aeronaut
To: Budgie
Looks like my bedroom ceiling when I was a kid, (at least the prop planes) :)
Great pics.
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:17:43 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Budgie
Welcome to FR.
Looks rather claustrophobic....
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:18:11 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(www.huntershope.org)
To: Budgie
Wow! Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that there was an American air museum anywhere outside of the US. It looks like their collection of more "modern" airplanes rivals that of the Wright Patterson AFB museum! I didn't expect to see either a B-52 or an SR-71. And having more than 1 B-17 is most impressive!
Mark
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:19:25 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
To: Budgie
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:21:17 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(Grant no power to government you would not want your worst enemies to wield against you.)
To: Stonewall Jackson
Maybe a stop off on a trip to GB.
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:21:25 AM PDT
by
SLB
("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
To: Budgie; Aeronaut; Criminal Number 18F
Ping (love that shot of Habu).
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:26:03 AM PDT
by
Archangelsk
(Handbasket, hell. Get used to the concept.)
To: MarkL
"And having more than 1 B-17 is most impressive!"
Yep, and one of them is still flying
http://aam.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1104
Personally I was most impressed by the Blackbird, which is the actual aircraft that set the altitude record.
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:26:06 AM PDT
by
Budgie
To: Budgie
Much thanks,
The picture of the suspended F-100 resurrected an old memory from a deployment to Tyndall AFB in Florida with our F-4c's. Some of our old F-100s had been converted to drones. As one of them taxied out some of the older crew chiefs stopped what they were doing and just stared. Some of the pilots who had flown that bird were still with us and you can imagine what they were thinking when they lined up on it.
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:26:13 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: Budgie
Thanks. It was good to see the B-24 like my dad flew out of England in WWII (the Lucky Lady Bett). Love this stuff!
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:27:03 AM PDT
by
Laserman
To: MS.BEHAVIN
To: MarkL
And having more than 1 B-17 is most impressive! Not to mention very selfish. I don't even have one.
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:36:33 AM PDT
by
11Bush
(If the shootin' don't start soon, I'll have to mount the Ma-Duece on my wheelchair.)
To: Budgie
Personally I was most impressed by the Blackbird, which is the actual aircraft that set the altitude record.I think that what impressed me most about the SR-71 Blackbird, the first time that I saw one at Wright Patterson, was just how small they are... I thought that they'd be much larger.
Mark
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:39:02 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
To: Budgie
Great photos, welcome and great name for an aviation buff...;-)
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posted on
06/05/2005 6:53:19 AM PDT
by
Khurkris
(I need a new tagline..let me work on it a while.)
To: Budgie
Bigger and better than when I was at Duxford in '86. It also had a nice collection of heavy tanks at that time. The active airstrip was a nice surprise to me at the time. I remember that a P-40 and a Spit came in while I was taking my lunch.
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