Abilene Slim SASS 81783

Depends on how long you leave it the oven…

I used to drive from Kansas City to the Colorado Rockies and back every year to ski. I addition to stuff to stay warm, I always traveled with a full size snow shovel like this. Western Kansas can be as treacherous as the mountains!

Kinda like cars & guns. They’re all interesting!

I’ve always been a fan of this plane - Fiesler Storch. Can take off and land from just about anywhere. 200’ to take off and clear a 50’ obstacle, land in 60’.

Cool! It was probably one of these. I keep this in the den. A little over 6 feet long.

That and a Pulaski like my son used:

Sweet. It probably would have broken you financially to keep it airworthy. Plus, there is a condition called AIDS - aviation induced divorce syndrome. 😁

Like this? My great grandfather learned to fly in one at the Wright Brothers flying school and then brought one back to St Louis. Orville Wright signed his pilots license. What a contraption! my idea of a biplane I’d like to own:

Dunno. But I think Boldly Go was the name of the colonoscopy prep I had to drink last week…

Erco Aircoupe. A remarkable little plane designed to touch down in a crab angle because it had no rudder pedals. The theory is it was safer because the pilot couldn’t cross control the rudders & ailerons when landing in a crosswind. It worked, but later versions were retrofitted with pedals because pilots found landing without them too unnerving.

I reposted J-Bar’s Saloon thread here because not all Wire readers visit the Saloon and vice versa. Fingers was well known in both camps.

Pinkard & Bowden: Purple Haze and Green Acres theme. Scroll to the 1:30 mark.

The polling place was packed with a long line. Still, there were lots of volunteers checking ID and registration and lots of voting machines. We were in and out in 15 minutes. We’re blessed our state and county make it so easy. I hope our nation knows the results the following day like the old days, before computers got involved.

“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?” ”Ja! Ja! Track 29! Oh, can I give you a shine?”

“Inga, elevate me.” “Y..you mean right here…now?” “Yes, the platform…” “Oh..yes, yes..ze platform!”

“Nice grouping!”

An awesome airplane. Would love to have flown one. A friend flew one as a forward air controller in Vietnam. Said it was amazing.

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It still looks modern, doesn’t it?

Bingo. That’s much discussed in the “Hotshot” documentary I referenced in your thread. It is unfortunately, an old topic that’s never resolved effectively. Our firefighting bureaucracy is also heavily skewed toward saving structures that never should have built in the first place. Not unlike building in flood plains. The more you build, the more you gotta rescue. Adding on, some of the tree-huggers won’t allow the thinning of fuels. One of the fires my son worked took him through a housing development that was 100% destroyed. The Forest Service recommended and offered to thin their development of fuels 2-3 years prior, but the residents said “Nope” because they wanted the area to remain “natural”.

Neigh….

“…Abby, who? Abby Normal!”

That and Blazing Saddles were made back to back and released in less than a year apart. Two of the most hilarious and brilliant movies EVER!

Sage, were any of the data/specs from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar used in the Shuttle?

F7F for me…