Cool!
I had to go dust off my copy of "Thunderbolt" and watch it this morning.
I had to go dust off my copy of "Thunderbolt" and watch it this morning.
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thats what makes this forum the best f body forum on the net..Originally posted by alensteinGood Video! I didn't now you guys are into this stuff.
tons of talent, tons of intellect.....and tons of gr8 personalities.....
me excluded of course..........
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Man what a bummer. I spent all day looking for a stupid brake line for a 98-02 F-body. I finally broke down and went and got the stainless steel kit from Year one. On the way home, a C47 flew right over the car. I get home and start working on the car and I hear the groan of multi engine radial engines headed my way. I went out to the driveway and here comes the C47. Followed by a B17 then an F6 Hellcat. And the camera was inside. I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. I want to get over to the airport to see what is going on.2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning
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I wouldn't be surprised if an airshow's brewing, Jeff. Check your local newspaper, maybe there's word of it or some kind of event happening.Hercules
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No airshow. I don't know why they were there. I went up to PDK and took some pictures today. The B17 was still there. Here are 2 pics.
http://claire-marie.net/117_1784.JPG
http://claire-marie.net/118_1868.JPG
Here are 2 planes that aren't normally there.
http://claire-marie.net/117_1775.JPG
http://claire-marie.net/117_1785.JPG
Here is one that lives there. I've got some pictures of him flying it.
http://claire-marie.net/117_1793.JPG2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning
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Damn those pics are sweet!Originally posted by Jeff 95 Z28Hercules
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Found the website for the '17'. Nothing on the schedule for "Liberty Belle".
http://www.libertyfoundation.org/index.php
They just got it back in the air last year.
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A ride in a B-17 is amazing I had the the chance to fly in the Nine 'o Nine last year and it was incredible. Being in the radio room and trying to stick your head out was a lot more powerful than I ever thought it would be and loved every minute of that trip. Usually every year we have the Nine 'o Nine and a B-25 take people on trips over the bay area for different days out of the year and it's always a blast.
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It looks like they are based in Georgia. They could be up here for flight testing. But they brought a bunch of their friends.Originally posted by bru333 I love living near the airport. It has never bothered me at all.
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You know, the thing that bothered me the most about post 9/11 was that there were no planes in the air. To me, you could really tell that something was wrong in the world because nothing was flying. I saw one Heuy during that time. You would think that they would have at least flown a couple of CAPs over Atlanta. There is a squadron of marine reserve F18s here at Dobbins ARB. http://www.mfr.usmc.mil/4thMAW/MAG42/
A C5 flew over the house last week sometime. They don't look like they are flying they fly so slow.
Here's a couple of website for the aviation buffs.
http://www.airshows.com/
http://www.b17.org/2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning
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yea i had to pull out "Memphis Bell" yesterday and watch it, that movie rocks1967 Camaro "Project"
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I went over to my neighbor's house today and asked him some things about the war.
His name is Harold McClure, he's 85 and enlisted in the Army in 1943. He was a navigator on a B-17 stationed in England. I asked him if he wanted to do ground battle or air battle. He said air, because after 25 missions you got to go home.
He told me how the ranking system worked in the Army. If you scored a 5, you were a bombardier, 6 a pilot, and 7 a navigator. He ranked 7th. His B-17 was so new, it didn't have a name. But someone painted the jaws teeth around the nose and the eyes by the windows.
He told me stories about how P-47's escorted their unit, and right before they crossed the German border the P-47's would turn back because they were low on fuel. On his 18th mission, him and his crew got shot down. He rememberd 'hundreds' of ME-109's swarming in the air and getting in attack formation. He would see other B-17's getting shot up to pieces and gradually loosing formation as they dissapeared in the thick clouds and AA. I asked him if he remembered getting shot down and he said one of the 109's shot up their hydrolic systems and a fire started, quickly filling up the fuselage with smoke. He remembered the plane starting to shake vibrantly and the fire burnt out their com radios so they couldn't talk to each other. After he bailed out with his fellow crew, he remembered looking at the plane as he was parachuting and it blew up (it must of hit a fuel line).
As he was parachuting down to earth, he said a 109 broke formation and circled his crew. He said the fighters didn't shoot because they had an agreement not to shoot pilots. He was cought as soon as he landed on the ground and spent the last remaining year as a P.O.W. His camp was a couple miles right out of Munich. He said the Luftwaffe pilots would buzz the camp at very low altitudes and high speeds in their ME's and Stuka's.
He also mentioned how the P-51's turned the war around and helped them win. He also recalled how beautiful the Spitfire's looked in real life as they helped escort his unit 20,000 feet above.
There's a bunch of more he told me, but I'm gonna try and get an interview with him and record it. The only thing I forgot to ask him was what bombing unit he was in. Doh!Hercules
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did yall know, the p-47 was the first aircraft to break the sound bearrier? it did it in a dive....when the pilot tried to pull up.....the wings came off.........
true story.
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Actually, Ken, that is very debatable. There're a lot of people out there that claim to of broken the sound barrier before Chuck Yeager. One of these claims came from a WWII ME-262 pilot that claimed he broke the sound barrier, and the resulting pressure sucked some bolts out of his wings. He said that the cockpit started to sound funny, the airspeed indicator was off the dial and that there was a lot of buffetting.Originally posted by wolfmandid yall know, the p-47 was the first aircraft to break the sound bearrier? it did it in a dive....when the pilot tried to pull up.....the wings came off.........
true story.
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