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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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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!
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Kinda like cars & guns. They’re all interesting!
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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’.
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1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:
Beautiful wood prop with brass tips.
Cool! It was probably one of these. I keep this in the den. A little over 6 feet long.
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3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
I stand corrected; there IS a firefighting appliance that requires neither ICE nor 'lectric.
'course it won't put out a fire by itself and needs a little human help to perform it's task ......
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... and I take my hat off to those who do ......
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That and a Pulaski like my son used:
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9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
That's pretty darn neat family history.
And yes a biplane like that!
Back in the mid 80s, I had a chance to buy a 47 Travelair! They wanted $5'500 for it! Wife was not having it!!
Sweet. It probably would have broken you financially to keep it airworthy. Plus, there is a condition called AIDS - aviation induced divorce syndrome. 😁
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38 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.
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:
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7 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
Weren’t they talking about a factory-new Porta-Potty?
Dunno. But I think Boldly Go was the name of the colonoscopy prep I had to drink last week…
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19 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
........ when it grows up I bet it wants to be an airplane with a tail ....... 😉
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.
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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.
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Pinkard & Bowden: Purple Haze and Green Acres theme. Scroll to the 1:30 mark.
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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.
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“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”
”Ja! Ja! Track 29! Oh, can I give you a shine?”
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“Inga, elevate me.”
“Y..you mean right here…now?”
“Yes, the platform…”
“Oh..yes, yes..ze platform!”
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“Nice grouping!”
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10 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
See those almost every day during the Summer and Autumn. Calfire command and control.
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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6 hours ago, Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 said:
My '73 recently started acting up (at LandRun, of course). I've been shooting this very reliable rifle since '08 and have put about 50k rounds through it (same bullet, length ect. as I'm having trouble with now). Seems like my carrier is not reliably dropping all the way when I close it. Have new Lever and lifter springs coming. Compared my 4th Gen. C&I lever and lifter to another one I have and they are identical. Noticed the cartridges in the carrier are sitting an a pretty extreme angle and catching on rear of frame(See attached pic) Carrier shows very little wear and I tried 2 other carriers(one brass and one Aluminum). They didn't help. Thought maybe it was the loading gate bent, even though it doesn't appear to be, so I switched the side plate out with one from another '73. Same problem.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Possum
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Can't seem to get pic to show here.
The image file format (.jfif) is ancient and difficult to view. Try re-saving it as a .jpg file and repost.
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1 minute ago, DocWard said:
I've always thought the P-39 was a very cool looking plane!
Since the P-38 and SR-71 have already been mentioned and shown, I'll go with this one as one of the coolest looking aircraft of all time.
It still looks modern, doesn’t it?
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3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
It occurred to me today that the practice of putting out every little wildfire is what led to the resurgence of the massive fires of the last decade or so. By putting out every single fire as soon as it formed, a vast amount of undergrowth accumulated that eventually became the fuel necessary for record wildfires.
How soon we forget.
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”.
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2 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
Frau Blucher!
Neigh….
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“…Abby, who?
Abby Normal!”
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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!
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43 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
The Aft Fuselage in final assembly and systems check out before being shipped from Downey to Palmdale for Final Assembly.
I am on the far right in the picture. I was Manager of the Thrust Structure Assembly. I was one of the youngest in our department. I am 83 now and sadly most of my friends and co-workers are now gone. A great bunch of people!
Sage, were any of the data/specs from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar used in the Shuttle?
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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Feel free to highjack any thread I start, so long as there is some sort of logical connection.
Coolest looking is a toss up between the F7F Tigercat
And the P-61 Black Widow
F7F for me…
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Putting a cotton ball in a shotgun shell.
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Depends on how long you leave it the oven…