That was cool. The planes in that remind me of the XBox360 game Crimson Sky’s. Very similar aircraft that you can fly and fight in. Thanks for sharing that.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...553569019e.jpg
A blast from the past


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All Things Aviation Related
 

Someday………

I am going to make the trek to upstate NY and visit this place. It looks like it would be a hoot!!

https://youtu.be/ziP0M86ew-g
I
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChP-vIOlutX/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Those actually looked like a pretty close interpretation of an actual Japanese WW2 design.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKE wi95NLVstD5AhUmpIkEHV15AFQQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A %2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKyushu_J7W_Shinden &usg=AOvVaw3PqWWo7b7cLMgB9Xh7Pf0U

It is.

When I was at the Sikorsky Factory in Bridgeport, CT my Dad attended a reunion at West Point. My family came up and we went to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome that Sunday.

Fantastic. Worth the time!

Not my pic:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1660826942.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6e1d7ef042.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bfb8deb45a.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ac5a6ea44e.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0dbaeca725.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...091155cc31.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Rutrowhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...770ca89d59.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b869525c86.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

^hoping the transmission was saved. Propeller did it's job.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1661230770.jpg

<iframe width="860" height="615" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7fCCnNOhFtg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Thought I might post pics of one of my garage walls. I have been hanging on to these prints since the mid-1980s. I finally framed and displayed them. Some are signed by famous folks associated with the particular aircraft.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1661372214.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1661372214.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1661372214.jpg

This last one is a bit unique...it is a drawing created by Alex Raymond. He was assigned to document my FILs Marine air squadron due to the fact that they were some of the first trained for close ground support. They flew TBMs. Alex had achieved fame as the creater of Flash Gordon, and he joined the Marines during WWII. He also designed their squadron patch - VMTB-143 Rocket Raiders on the USS Gilbert Islands.

Here is the Alex Raymond print:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1661373018.jpg

The Space Shuttle "Columbia". My Dad checked me out of school one day, I had no idea why. I was in the eighth grade at the time. He told me that the space shuttle was being flown back to Cape Canaveral atop the transporter 747 and it was stopping at Eglin AFB, so he checked me out of school so that we could watch it fly in. It was so cool. We stood at the shore of Boggy Bayou in Niceville, Florida and watched it as it approached. Later that day, the public was allowed onto the base to view the shuttle and we went to see it. I had a little Kodak Disc camera at the time. I took pictures of the front half and rear half of the plane and shuttle and put them together to make one picture, not too bad for a kid with a basic camera. Lol. The next day, me and some friends watched it take off, I remember it seemed like it took forever for it to get up off the ground and then it flew right overhead. Pretty amazing stuff.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c511afbf4f.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Flying in over Boggy Bayou, Niceville, Florida.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b2bce583a6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6576877bd0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1cbcc526d6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eb3d0b3003.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e8ebfacc68.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Columbia and 905. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...04d30e3171.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7902664930.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...61fa1f494d.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Columbia and 905 https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f9dbbfe145.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0efa78a653.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3ee708172e.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

F-4 Phantom https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e1e547d6c8.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6c7056da75.jpg

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

pretty cool RC vid:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nKXQbJU70yw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="760" height="515" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MJrXUh0eZjw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>




.

Sent word out ot the closest club for initiation flight and chitchat over ULM or PPL.