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Was this thing real; or has it been photoshopped? If real, what was its designation; I've never seen it before. --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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It's a photochop deal. It's spoofing the B-17, as if it were built like one of Rutan's Long EZ 'tail first' planes. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Thanks. I thought that was the case, but sometimes ya never know.  --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Behold, the Jimmy Durante:  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Just lock the thread now. I think you won the interwebs for the day with THAT one, kz.....  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Hmmmm, South American. Used to detect drug smugglers? Shouldn't the shnoz be red, though? This space intentionally left blank. | |||
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Probably. According to wikipedia (yeah, I know...) it's an AWACS bird based on a 707. Although they might also have bought a surplus one from somebody and converted it into a passenger or cargo hauler. Sure does win the ugly prize though. | |||
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Ugly but effective.  | |||
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KZ, I was scrolling from the bottom up, checking for new posts, so I saw the image before I saw your comment. The first thing I said when the picture came up was Jimmy Durante! (We may be dating ourselves a bit here...) Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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I'm not smart enough to post pictures, but this USAF Jimmy Durante is very similar to what kz posted: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.m...boeing-ec-135e-aria/ | |||
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It's so ugly it's cute (and cool to boot!)  Link to original video: https://youtu.be/q1dyShYQa9A Link to original video: https://youtu.be/2zMPrOE3Wpc ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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^^^^What was the Victor's vector?
I saw him when I was a kid every year around Christmas on Frosty the Snowman. If you remember him from something else, you must be really old.  | |||
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A Grateful American |
 FIFY "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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That looks like the box that the airplane came in. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Or the Underground the pilot took to the airport! -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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Is that the Shorts SkyVan? About 30 year ago I flew in one from Hagerstown MD to (I think) Pittsburgh on (I think) an Allegheny Air commuter. USAF operated those (as the C-23 Sherpa) in Europe as their FedEx Air system: http://www.airforcesmonthly.co...rothers-c-23-sherpa/ | |||
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Skyvans are cool. A local Dropzone operated one for a bunch of years, and it was a blast to jump out of, but the inside sure is loud as hell. Those Garrets sure aren’t helping quiet things down either. It looks like that particular skyvan is equipped with a weather radar. | |||
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Did you crap in your Shorts? | |||
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