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Offline VonMessa

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For you Mitchell guys...
« on: February 05, 2011, 08:30:31 AM »
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 08:39:48 AM »
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 12:34:04 PM »
Vonmessa that's very cool, here's a site for anyone that loves aviation, they will like this site, it's just to cool    http://www.motoart.com/
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 12:37:14 PM »
That reminds me...

I've got some wing ribs that I should be hammering out...

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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 04:14:43 PM »
Vonmessa that's very cool, here's a site for anyone that loves aviation, they will like this site, it's just to cool    http://www.motoart.com/
it is the same site.  :noid
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 05:50:45 PM »
"Widely used in WWII and launched off aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean, the Mitchell Bomber
was a small twin-engine aircraft loaded with a .50 caliber machine gun."

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Offline Yossarian

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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 07:15:16 PM »
Hmm...I'd just been thinking about what sort of desk I was going to get for uni in a few months... :aok

Thanks for posting this  :D


"Widely used in WWII and launched off aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean, the Mitchell Bomber
was a small twin-engine aircraft loaded with a .50 caliber machine gun."

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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2011, 08:44:14 PM »
LOL they say a wing I say a rudder.......
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 12:41:28 AM »
LOL they say a wing I say a rudder.......

Figured you guys would know better than I  :)

psst, fix you sig.   :P
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 01:23:25 AM »
LOL they say a wing I say a rudder.......

It is a rudder.  Sad to see it end up as a piece under someone's desk.  Hell the paint isn't even close to the zinc chromate used by North American during the war. 
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2011, 02:28:28 AM »
It is a rudder.  Sad to see it end up as a piece under someone's desk.  Hell the paint isn't even close to the zinc chromate used by North American during the war. 

Could you find me some?  I'm gonna need it soon...
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2011, 03:30:11 AM »
So when is some nutjob going to build an airplane out of old tables and furnitures?
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2011, 06:00:27 AM »
So when is some nutjob going to build an airplane out of old tables and furnitures?

Does using an old workbench to build an airplane count?
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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2011, 07:12:56 AM »
Does using an old workbench to build an airplane count?

Heh, I kinda meant someone reversing the process and harvesting the parts from those furnitures :)
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Re: For you Mitchell guys...
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2011, 02:39:48 AM »
Just making sure  :D
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