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MonsterHPD
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Re: The Flying Thread
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July 26, 2017, 01:53:07 PM »
Quote from: kopfjäger on July 26, 2017, 07:23:01 AM
Great
Went to Reno in, I think, 2002. There´s no sound lik a Merlin / Griffon passing by, not even any Duc .....
Still, even with that speed .... it´s easy to understand why strafing heavily defended enemy airfields during WW2 was considered near-suicidal unless surprise factor worked.
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This is a great story, and he's a great story teller. "We bad"
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September 05, 2017, 07:21:03 PM »
Best story for sure, one of his many.
I can't wait to hit his gallery next week.
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'Playing through' 1:20
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Quote from: kopfjäger on September 05, 2017, 06:55:25 PM
This is a great story, and he's a great story teller. "We bad"
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Quote from: kopfjäger on September 07, 2017, 03:42:13 PM
'Playing through' 1:20
Gotta take care of the gopher problem somehow!
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It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.
* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *
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September 11, 2017, 09:14:00 PM »
Behind the scenes of the aerial footage for the movie Dunkirk.
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It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.
* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *
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October 16, 2017, 02:07:02 PM »
Nice view of Hudson High.
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Re: The Flying Thread
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Quote from: kopfjäger on October 16, 2017, 02:07:02 PM
Nice view of Hudson High.
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It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.
* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *
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Re: The Flying Thread
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Quote from: kopfjäger on October 17, 2017, 06:53:44 PM
Not sure where that was filmed, but my experience with Alaskan Bush/Seaplane pilots is that they're not right in the head.
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Re: The Flying Thread
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How hard could that be?
He only used a wee bit more than half of the runway.
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