iansane said:Duke said:
Is that who I think it is? Even during broad daylight I'd be terrified hearing him cackling in the middle of a tree farm.
Vincent Price and his daughter Elizabeth.
iansane said:Duke said:
Is that who I think it is? Even during broad daylight I'd be terrified hearing him cackling in the middle of a tree farm.
Vincent Price and his daughter Elizabeth.
Edinburgh, 1920. Photo by Alfred Buckham:
aircooled said:Yeah, with Dukes comments about the gear, it looks like the gear is coming up and the shadow / blast effect might be the result of a sharp pull up after take off (as the gear is coming up) is the shot that was edited in. Also note that the arrester hook is not down (not that it would need it to land on a carrier without arresting wires!).
This fake is MUCH better done
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(largest aircraft to ever land on an aircraft carrier I believe)
I believe the pilot had to put the engines in full beta (reverse thrust) 3 feet above the deck to make it happen as they didn't have a tailhook and the arresting gear wouldn't have been rated for their weight if they had one anyway. That's commitment, you're not going around if you do that.
Filler cap on centerline drop tank was installed incorrectly and allowed the airstream to enter the fuel tank and blow fuel out (white in the image) and it is ignited by the afterburners. I can't remember if the aircraft was saved or if it was a write-off. The drop tanks were redesigned to make it impossible to happen again.
I didn't know if I should post this in the meme thread, the minor rant of the day thread, the minor win thread or the minor confession thread, so I posted it in the hotlinks thread.
(Per The Boone and Crockett Club:
"As the poster-child of waterfowl market hunting of the 1800s, the punt gun was a 10-foot long, 100-pound muzzleloading shotgun that might be better categorized as artillery. This gun was typically mounted to the bow of a small boat (or punt), aimed at a mass of migratory waterfowl and then, with the single pull of a trigger, it could annihilate 50-100 birds").
If you're looking for something to read, check out "Chesapeake" by James Michener. I always learn something reading his books, like there were two types of these guns; the one you showed and another with a rack of barrels with one powder tray. Yikes!
In reply to Gary :
Yep.
Humans will hunt anything to extinction, just because we can.
I grew up in the house that had belonged to one of the Chesapeake's best decoy carvers, Standlee Evans. His canvasbacks were prized. This isn't one of his, but very similar:
There was a beautiful wooden hunting punt up in the rafters of the barn across the street.
In reply to 914Driver :
Gorgeous!
I'd love to tweak a Part 103 Hyperlite to make a poor man's Staggerwing.
Lots of aluminum would need to be replaced with carbon to stay at the 254 Lb. limit but it'd be really cool.
In reply to 914Driver :
The Staggerwing is to aircraft, what the Muira is to cars.
914Driver said:If you're looking for something to read, check out "Chesapeake" by James Michener. I always learn something reading his books, like there were two types of these guns; the one you showed and another with a rack of barrels with one powder tray. Yikes!
Dangit! I had a single credit left to use up before I canceled Audible on the 11th. I considered some of his work, best amount of minutes for the single credit. I tried Alaska but didn't it didn't jibe with me; seemed like a disjointed series of stories that were only tangentially related, no continuously flowing narrative to follow. But I'd try another of his sometime
myf16n said:In reply to 914Driver :
The Staggerwing is to aircraft, what the Muira is to cars.
I'm racking my brain but can't figure out what the Muira is to cars.
In reply to P3PPY :
Insanely nice design, very fast, maybe not terribly practical: (The Beach Staggerwing was faster than the Army Air Corps fighters at the time it was released!)
This was the state of the art fighter at the time the Staggerwing was first produced....!
In reply to P3PPY :
The most beautiful car ever made.
In reply to P3PPY :
Yeah, sometimes his stuff starts with the dinosaurs and runs to present day, a tough pull. He speaks of Tangier Island where the criminals were dumped. Now days they want your tourist dollars, but locals don't really want you there. If in a restaurant and they don't want you to hear what they're saying the break into a bastardized Elizabethan English. Fun place. Good book though.
I couldn't find a picture, but see Tangier Island now vs 1640.
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