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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #240 on: October 15, 2008, 05:29:06 PM »
No kidding you are lost. :eek:

There you are posting a new pic when you haven't even guessed my pic.:(

Guys, best to just ignore glock.

Offline glock89

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #241 on: October 15, 2008, 05:30:10 PM »
No kidding you are lost. :eek:

There you are posting a new pic when you haven't even guessed my pic.:(

Guys, best to just ignore glock.
That what i say.
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #242 on: October 15, 2008, 05:31:25 PM »
Tell me who flew each plane during the dogfight.
You need to identify Milo's aircraft first, but in the spirit of Good Will I'll tell you the B-17 driver's name: Ed Loberg. ;)

Probably should put your helmet back on now.
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #243 on: October 15, 2008, 05:32:51 PM »
You need to identify Milo's aircraft first, but in the spirit of Good Will I'll tell you the B-17 driver's name: Ed Loberg. ;)

Probably should put your helmet back on now.
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #244 on: October 15, 2008, 05:39:43 PM »
Calling me Special ed now. Oh that nice and im the bad guy here because i say what on my mind unlike you people who put on a fake face and try to be nice and other poop.
Then stop acting the part.  We try to include you, but you erode our patience with your behavior. You behave in a civil manner, we reciprocate. You don't, well...  It's that simple.

Most of the time, we simply ignore you. You want brutal, go tangle with Ack-Ack. ;)
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #245 on: October 15, 2008, 05:40:34 PM »
Then stop acting the part.  We try to include you, but you erode our patience with your behavior. You behave in a civil manner, we reciprocate. You don't, well...  It's that simple.

Most of the time, we simply ignore you. You want brutal, go tangle with Ack-Ack. ;)
You know what funny i made it all up and you fall for it  :lol :lol :lol.
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #246 on: October 15, 2008, 05:41:07 PM »
And now, for those of you who are lost:

Milo posted this hideous specimen. :D

Next:

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #247 on: October 15, 2008, 05:41:51 PM »
And now, for those of you who are lost:

Milo posted this hideous specimen. :D

Next:
(Image removed from quote.)

I thought we got that one?
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #248 on: October 15, 2008, 05:53:18 PM »
JHC :rolleyes:, you are truly lost.

My post was #232 and your post, where you jumped the queue, with a pic was #236. Do you see any guesses between Post #232 and #236? How can someone get 'lost' in ONLY 3 posts?  :eek:

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #249 on: October 15, 2008, 06:10:16 PM »
JHC :rolleyes:, you are truly lost.

My post was #232 and your post, where you jumped the queue, with a pic was #236. Do you see any guesses between Post #232 and #236? How can someone get 'lost' in ONLY 3 posts?  :eek:
Seem more like 678.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #250 on: October 15, 2008, 06:18:14 PM »
Good job, Cthulhu!

Glock, that's a German Mistel, with a Bf-109 as guide plane and a Ju-88 as gliding bomb.

Rich, I don't know if that's what you mean, but the C-27A/J Spartan is a derivation of the Italian G-222, a transport airplane. The first examples should have been delivered in September.

EDIT: Geez, Cthulhu, stop living on that keyboard and go to work! :D

No. I didnt even know we were taking on a new Euro plane. I was remembering, oh bout '79, coming out to the flightline overseas and seeing the strangest looking airplane I ever saw. It had USAF markings, and I guess it had come in overnight. Anyway I beat feet, "Love aircraft", to ask some gear-heads what the heck it was. They told me it was a B-57 Canberra and one of the last still serving. At the time Iran was hot as a firecracker and we had all kinds of spyplanes around. I was told the B-57 was tricked out for ocean reco. Anyhoo I was able to see one of the last, if not the last, Canberra on active duty. I believe the Canberra flew in anger in the Falklands and for sure the Indo/Pako wars. It also flew in anger in Vietnam.

Later in life I found out it was one of two foreign designed airplanes we have flown. Along with the Harrier.  :salute
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-57-pics.htm
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #251 on: October 15, 2008, 06:20:34 PM »
What thread is that bongaroo?

BTW, you never told me. You in school in Raleigh?

its the "a newer way to fly" thread

and yes, I go to NC State.
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #252 on: October 15, 2008, 06:35:39 PM »
No. I didnt even know we were taking on a new Euro plane. I was remembering, oh bout '79, coming out to the flightline overseas and seeing the strangest looking airplane I ever saw. It had USAF markings, and I guess it had come in overnight. Anyway I beat feet, "Love aircraft", to ask some gear-heads what the heck it was. They told me it was a B-57 Canberra and one of the last still serving. At the time Iran was hot as a firecracker and we had all kinds of spyplanes around. I was told the B-57 was tricked out for ocean reco. Anyhoo I was able to see one of the last, if not the last, Canberra on active duty. I believe the Canberra flew in anger in the Falklands and for sure the Indo/Pako wars. It also flew in anger in Vietnam.

Later in life I found out it was one of two foreign designed airplanes we have flown. Along with the Harrier.  :salute
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-57-pics.htm

What you saw was probably one of the RB-57's. Did it have an ungodly wingspan?

its the "a newer way to fly" thread

and yes, I go to NC State.
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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #253 on: October 15, 2008, 06:36:31 PM »
I was remembering, oh bout '79...

Cc, I misread your post, Rich, sorry.



Yugoslavian Ikarus aircraft, I've found it labeled both as IK-1 and IK-2, can't say which it is exactly. My guess is this is the IK-1, prototype for the IK-2.

EDIT: ok, I'm pretty sure, it's the Ikarus IK-1
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: What aircraft is this?
« Reply #254 on: October 15, 2008, 06:43:32 PM »
Ikarus! Damn it, That's been dodging my brain cells for a couple hours now.
WTG :aok

Something a bit less ugly:

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