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This is too cool! When I figure out some stuff in my new system I'll post my picture. Thanks

 

Like my laptop it crashed.
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Neat tractor picture.

 

Yikes what's the story behind that?

 

13/09/1962.
Test pilot George Aird, ejected at the last minute,noticed a fire burning through the tailplane controls of the Lightning ,aircraft crashed at Hatfield,he landed in a tomato bed inside a greenhouse,was flying within 6 months.

 

Well, he clearly remembered to put the gear down but that approach angle is pretty terrible.



Terry

 

Yeah, just another hot shot trying make a big hit with his English Electra Lightning.

 

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.

 

Here is a guy with a Hercules on each shoulder
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I guess that I don't understand modern aircraft. How can they be flying when the props are stopped?

 

Oh, the props are turning. That's just the consequence of shooting with a fast shutter speed. If you do that with racing cars, you can make fast cars look like they're not moving!

 

C'mon man, we can see the jet trails behind the airplanes. We know that it's really a jet and some newly-hired designer decided to hang some props on the airframe because it just looked right. And because he thought it was cool to put a pinwheel on his bike when he was in grade school. Then the PR staff caught on, and thought about where the aircraft would operate and realized: "yeah, if we put props on it, folks in poorer countries won't feel bad about the fact that they don't have jets".

 

They are coasting..............................

 

I think that you are correct. One can see some items in the upper frame of the photo. Boy, what a view!

 

From another war.
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The Wrong Brothers
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A keepsake for your love of the Champ
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Hey Bob,

Do you remember where or when this picture was taken ? Was it somewhere in the mid-west ? That looks like my Bird next to it (before I owned it), but I can't see enough of it to tell. Thanks...

 

That picture was taken at an antique fly in at Scapoose, Oregon in 1970. The airplane was five minutes away from its demise. It was involved in a fatal mid-air and totally destroyed when it was hit dead center by a Meyers OTK, killing three people. The pilot was a friend who borrowed the airplane and attempted to enter a large formation of mixed aircraft and got run over. It killed both pilots and a 14 year old Civil Air Patrol cadet.

 

OTK indicated a Kinner engine installation where the OTW indicated a Warner...if my old head remembers it correctly. Sorry to hear about your friend.