Recent content by buffnut453

Here's a video if you're on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EarEaAyPh/?mibextid=wwXIfr Glad the crew banged out and lucky there were apparently no casualties on the ground. Could’ve been a LOT worse.

Agreed. This is Miss Demeanour in her element in happier days:

Hawker Hunter, formerly known in the UK as "Miss Demeanour" was lost in an accident off the California coast while being operated as N345AX by the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company. Thankfully the pilot ejected and survived but the airframe has been destroyed according to early reports...

I'd be interested to learn what sources make this claim, plus their evidence for it. I can't see any common dimensions between contemporaneous French engines and the Sakai engine.

You missed “on some good drugs” from the end of your description.😁

You should be fine building a WW2 machine out of the box but with different decals.

I think the USSR’s pre-war lack of adaptation had more to do with Stalin’s purges than anything else. He gutted senior military leadership and even aircraft design teams. The replacements were relatively inexperienced and, unsurprisingly, fearful for their futures and so they tied the...

AI says the following (all the usual caveats about accuracy): A vintage Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine typically costs between $20,000 and $60,000 for a non-running core, and $200,000 to over $500,000 for a fully overhauled, airworthy engine. Then there's this info (Source: Bot Verification )...

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan is one of the forgotten success stories of WW2. It massively increased air training capacity across the globe, with schools established everywhere that was away from the fighting: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa, and even in the US (I’m...

With your feet? Impressively flexible!

You're never too old to learn new skills. Today, for example, I learned that I can sneeze, fart and pee all at the same time. Never knew I could do that. Impressive, huh?

I think this has been on here before...but worth a revisit 'cos, well, it's funny! BTW, the answer to the state question for "The Princess Bride" pic is....drum roll, please.... Utah (I'd be willing to put money on it). Many towns are laid out in a grid pattern with addresses referencing...

I'm not so sure this time. Russian commentators have indicated that attacks might happen by "unknown actors" and not by military forces. That suggests either Russophile people living in the UK or paid/useful idiots (note these groups may all overlap) using small drones or other acts of...

So...guess which US State?

Well...DAMN! One of my all-time favourite aircraft. Really glad the pilot's ok but heartbreaking to see the aircraft in that state. 😭