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| Author: | leewwalton [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:45 am ] | ||||
| Post subject: | This may bring a tear to your eyes! | ||||
Steve Hawley sent me this today, his son spotted this in GA. Originally built by Terry Russell, finished in 1982.
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| Author: | N89BJ [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
That's sad  Now how will we react when they start doing that to RVs 
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| Author: | Lou [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Where is it? I have a truck. |
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| Author: | leewwalton [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Afraid that girl is committed to representing the storage business ... Plenty of sad thorps sitting in hangars out there Lou .. |
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| Author: | leewwalton [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
On a positive note .. That pic (for me at least) verifies that a thorp looks best in its natural state .. The plane needs feet hanging out in the wind .. Just doesn't look right without the mains hangin out there!! |
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| Author: | Rich Brazell [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Sad to see a mans many years of hard work end up as a bird perch and will never leave that location . There are a few Navy aircraft that I've flown over the years that are now on a pole as gate guards to Military Bases !  There a lot of them are at KDMA awaiting a sadder fate ! RB 
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| Author: | dickwolff [ Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
I wish I had a buck for every time I wanted to do that with mine. |
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| Author: | Lou [ Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Hey Rich I didn't know the navy flew biplanes 
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| Author: | James Grahn [ Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Haha. You know it really bums me out to see a perfectly good airplane with a pole up its butt. Although, I have never had a problem with F16s on a stick. But, then again....I did say perfectly good airplane... Cubes |
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| Author: | Rich Brazell [ Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Give it time . The F-16 along with other Military AC will end up on a stick or at KDMA awaiting the "knife." Biplanes ? I got a ride in the Goodyear Blimp ! Saw my first Blimp at NAS Brunswick, GA in the early 50's . What a manly aircraft to fly ! POOF ! RB
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| Author: | fytrplt [ Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Cubes, the F-16 had one really good attibute -- it was FUN! As to the cockpit ambiance, flying cold mike was the way flying is meant to be. Another great plus, you didn't have to share your oxygen. What's not to like? As to the Thorp on a pole, some I've seen; this is the best use. Let's hope that the gear is flying on some other plane. |
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| Author: | James Grahn [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Can't be more fun than flying the Rhino or Strike on cold mike!! Cubes |
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| Author: | Fredl [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
I agree. Angers me when I see planes just sitting and corroding. Ask that guy how he would like a pole Up his butt? |
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| Author: | Rich Brazell [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Cold Mike ? How about listening to the HF radio from KNZY to PHNA with no SELCAL for 6 hours ! STATIC BOOM ! RB
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| Author: | Victor J Thompson [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: This may bring a tear to your eyes! |
Gate guards have a special place in my heart. To me they serve as reminders of air and maintenance crews I have served with, some of which still to this day carry on the fight,... The lucky retired military aircraft end up in museums, parks or Trg aids to go on and serve to inspire the young to take up the challenge of flight. Some retired military aircraft end up in bone yards to be ravaged ~ to give life to others. But the worst fate a retired military aircraft can have is to be sent to a metal salvage yards to have a second life as a toasters or washing machines,…. A C-47 converted to a civil DC-3 has a special task to perform at Whitehorse Yukon Territory in Canada ~ the worlds largest weather vane. http://www.explorenorth.com/library/avi ... f-cpy.html The Thorp on a pole outside the storage business needs to be rescued by Lou or Thierry. I think our French Canadian builder could have this Thorp flying in a month or two, most likly in better shape when originally built. |
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