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Abilene Slim SASS 81783

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  1. “Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?” ”Ja! Ja! Track 29! Oh, can I give you a shine?”
  2. “Inga, elevate me.” “Y..you mean right here…now?” “Yes, the platform…” “Oh..yes, yes..ze platform!”
  3. An awesome airplane. Would love to have flown one. A friend flew one as a forward air controller in Vietnam. Said it was amazing.
  4. The image file format (.jfif) is ancient and difficult to view. Try re-saving it as a .jpg file and repost.
  5. 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”.
  6. 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!
  7. Sage, were any of the data/specs from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar used in the Shuttle?
  8. So far ahead of its time it was in the first “War of the Worlds” movie!
  9. The Hustler was amazing. Imagine what it could have been if computers had been available to control it. Took a pair of big brass ones to fly it.
  10. The Shuttle was no less an airplane than the X-15 or ME-163 Komet. An amazing airframe!
  11. Too bad it was cancelled. A very cool plane that reminds me of the North American RA-5 Vigilante. It was originally designed to poop out a nuclear bomb from between the engine exhaust.
  12. Some helitack pics. I love this Chinook pic. The tube hanging from the Skycrane is a siphon for drawing water from a pond/lake, etc.
  13. Here are a few of the arial pics I mentioned. At the time, P-3 Orions and P-2V Neptunes were common as they had bomb bays which are better suited for dropping retardant as opposed to nozzles where the stuff tends to atomize before hitting the ground. This P-3 clipped some trees. Note the Hotshots on the ground in the first pic. The first two pics were an "Oh s**t" moment for the aircrew, the third image was an "Oh s**t" moment for the ground crew!
  14. Rather than totally hijacking SD Joe’s Spitfire thread, I’ll start another. What are some of the coolest looking airplanes on your list? They don’t have to have been successful, just something you think is an interesting design and has good lines. My list could go on and and on, so here are just a few: Lockheed Constellation P-39 Airacobra (may be an odd choice, I just always liked its looks.) Avro Vulcan Hughes XF-11 (shown below)
  15. …and a P-38 or deHaviland Mosquito!
  16. I learn something new every day. 😊
  17. Nice to see that can still happen without the “authorities” getting involved. A few years ago a 5th grader was expelled from a school near me for playing with a toy gun on school property one Sunday. A nanny-nitwit neighbor called police when she saw two kids playing with a pistol. Police arrived, saw it was clearly a toy and left without doing anything. Of course the school district got wind of the “incident” and expelled the kid under its “zero-tolerance gun policy”. The kid was an honor student too. Morons!
  18. Somewhere I have some pics of what the air drops look like from the ground and will try to post. My son had more than one load of retardant dropped right on top of him. Not fun!
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