johnbr
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.. Jean Batten & her Percival Gull
Girls and Aircraft - Volume II
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Elvis
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Great pic, johnbr, but I gotta wonder about any airport named Gravesend !
...is that taps I hear over the loudspeaker?
...is that taps I hear over the loudspeaker?
Last fuel stop if you're "flying west", my friend! We'll all make a stop there someday.Great pic, johnbr, but I gotta wonder about any airport named Gravesend !
Cheers,
Wes
Aye, Sir, and stand by for the rifle salute and the missing man flyby....is that taps I hear over the loudspeaker?
Cheers,
Wes
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Elvis
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Where's the missing man? That's just a sloppy finger four. #2 should be tighter, #3 missing and #4 flying normal position for a moderately tight finger four, with the #3 gap glaringly obvious.
Cheers,
Wes
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Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
...don't be so picky. If you don't like the pic so much, post one of your own.
Well at least you had a picture available. I saw some impressive flybys in the Nav. They were fairly frequent back then if you lived on a fighter base and there was a war going on, but unfortunately I have no surviving photos....don't be so picky. If you don't like the pic so much, post one of your own.
Cheers,
Wes
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
FWIW, I pulled that image off of Google Images. the caption said it was the missing man formation. It was the best example I could find that used WWII era aircraft.
If you don't like it, I'm sorry. Maybe you can google "missing man formation WWII aircraft" and locate a better one.
If you don't like it, I'm sorry. Maybe you can google "missing man formation WWII aircraft" and locate a better one.
Not that big a deal. I was just being tongue-in-cheek snide and I guess I missed the mark. Sorry.
On closer inspection, that isn't even a WWII flyby after all. There's several million dollars worth of restored warbirds there. If I owned one of those babies, I don't think I'd fly a very tight formation either.
Cheers,
Wes
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Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
Does anyone else have a secret fantasy image of a Yak-52 and a BT-13 dogfighting for air supremacy?
I don't know why I feel this way, but I just so want to mount a couple of .30 cal's in their wings and have 'em duke it out.
...maybe I should seek help.
I don't know why I feel this way, but I just so want to mount a couple of .30 cal's in their wings and have 'em duke it out.
...maybe I should seek help.
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
...and speaking of the Vultee Valiant....
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
...there was a plane there. Really! No kidding!
Hey you hardly ever see a NAVY "vibrator", especially with a wingwalker and a tailpiece like that! SNV!
No, I prescribe a time machine for your malady!...maybe I should seek help.
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