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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GreenCloud on June 16, 2004, 06:45:55 PM
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just a reminder for any1 here who lOVES ww2 planes..
I have now flown both the B-17 "909" and the B-24 Dragon and its tail..
so frikn sweet..got a special ride on the B-24...50 min ..flew over the Delta ..flew over the Moth Ball fleet..flew over the Martinez refinery...all this at no higher then 3.5k...
They are on tour thru the US during Summer...
PLEASE..go Visit and help them out if you can...Truly great folks..
talked to a Ball gunnr this last time....
The pilto of the B17 told me they can still use the B17s ball gun..manually cranking it around...One of there volunteers regualry clims inside when they are hopping to other shows..
He said one time" long ago" before the FAA crap ...he would fly the 17 so lo.over the gulf that water would be pushed up from the props....then Homeboy who was in ball gunner said...gaaadam man u scared the hell out of me!!
www.collingsfoundation.org (http://w)
GC
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no..wrong guy...but a real crappy way to contribute to a post about ww2 planes...
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Excessive use of ... and no :aok smiley, 50/50 on this on.
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Random capitalization, mispellings, or words that have letters out of order... maybe more 75/25 Vulcan.
-SW
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"Excessive use of ..."
feined "friendliness" in the OT forum which is the only place he's posted since "stumbling upon" AH
(which was his "mo" used in his last few reencarnations) :)
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Hey Greencloud. So nice to meet a guy who just jumps right in and makes a lovely post that is sure to be of great interest to us all in here. I hope you stay around a long time.
Have you seen the SRV post? I am sure you would be interested in that one. It is about an auction for a very kool guitar.
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I can name the new MrBlack shades account in... five posts.
Anyone do better than that?
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Originally posted by Westy
"Excessive use of ..."
Yeah... you can't have that bad habit... it's mine.
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Originally posted by GreenCloud
just a reminder for any1 here who lOVES ww2 planes..
Good God How Stupid Can He Be?
I don't mean to be rude, but, jeeze WTF is this game about anyways? Oh thats right FDB's =).
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Awesome GreenCloud. I would love to fly in a B-17.
If you don't mind me asking, how much does it cost?
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it was 300$ for my firyts ride..pirices went up the next year..i think it was 350$ for the second ride(b24)..
The first tiem I took up a friend from school..who payed me back a few months later
the 2nd tiem I took up urb..a very good friend of mine who I took up for his College graduation present.
We flew 50 ,min..but flew to another town Concord, California..I then had my flight instructor meet us down there and I gave urb his first fligth in the cherokee...was my first tiem just sitting in back seat wacthing instead of flying..It was great cause I got more tiem just to look out the windwos..
Soemthn so much bettr about flying low and seeing the land instead of being at 30K altmonky in commercial airliner
Sitting in the nose guners pos in the B24 i sabsolutley awesome...Kind of funny tho..they had soem dumbell weights in there..on the floor I guees to keep th eturret from blowing away...lolol
Sun..if you get a chance..DEfntly do it..life experince you wont ever forget..The strenght and the power of those planes is amazing... If you have read alot about bomer crews and there msiions..you wil defntly have a larger respect for what these guys were doing...in theses planes....And It truly does help these guys maintain these flying memorials-museums
Im still trying to figure out how the hell they get thru the bombay area with gear on...
I took video and stills of both flights.....Was a dam shame the..I was so ecited that i zoomed in over half of my video footage..."You can see soem close up of many rivets:)"
Soon ..as I learn to post pics I will
btw..all you gusy who think im some guy..get off my jock..I dont know him..or what he does..but you guys need to get a life
GCloud
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Well then. So GCloud. What brings you to Aces High off topic?
Annnnnnd. As there's no stats for GCloud in AH, present or past, if I were to see you online to you or whatever what "handle" is it that you go by?
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Originally posted by Airhead
I can name the new MrBlack shades account in... five posts.
Anyone do better than that?
I did it in on Airhead see his 1st post!!!!!!!!!
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BGBMAW
BiGB
i have banned myself from reading politicl posts in here..Im turning a new leaf..toomany Honois in here to battel with
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Geez and I didn't even say anything!!!
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lol:)
btw..the 17 and b24 were in our area 2 weeks ago
was asweet day..the b-24 buzzed my house..I live on the highest hill in the vally..600f agl..and the bomers buzzed my house and woke me up..I got up and ran to my deck and saw the tail guns lookn at me..cause you cant tell bythe sound of those bueatiful radials..this aint no cessna....best alarm clock i ever had........well besides the "morning ride" shes always nice
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AS soon as you said Urb was your friend, I knew it was BGB...
Cause no one else would hang out with Urb!!
Where the hell ya been, Big B?
Got the cast off yet?
Your spelling and Typing seem to have improved?
Are you moving to AHII or hanging it up?
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ya..my hand is pretty much %100 now..thank god..being 1 handed is wak...yes..i deleyed ah1..
AH2.is sweeeetttttt
congrats on your first flight also !! kik assss...I think my favorite thing is stalls still:) sharp turns...dam i love flying..I need more money!!!!
Im going over to urbs house now to rip out his 32meg video card and find sotmhn bettr that fits i hope
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" have banned myself from reading politicl posts in here"
Ah! :) Big B. Well if you can do it then I can too!
I've been trying to avoid the temptation to spar by sticking to juyst adding my .02 in the non-political topics.
Westy
(keyword is "try." Slippage does occur)
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Some people won't fly in the Collings Foundations, and knowing what I know now, I am one of them.
dago
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Well so much for accusations on this guy being MrBlack, we can applaud the effort tho. I'm sure MrBlack is still lerking around. We just need some better "accusers" to find him. Whos up for the challenge. Place a bounty on his head, 5 dollars to the man who finds him! I think I have a good clue of who it is, you know who you are, and I'm comming for you.
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Originally posted by GreenCloud
BGBMAW
BiGB
i have banned myself from reading politicl posts in here..Im turning a new leaf..toomany Honois in here to battel with
Dude next time identify yourself immediately, don't scare us like that.
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Dago?..why ..saftey concerns? please explain
vulcan..maybe the guys getting scared need to check themselves..I think they really made fools of themsleves here..but I could really care less
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Im convinced, vulcan is MrBlack.:D
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Can't explain, don't want them coming after me in any manner, but I will tell you one of their B24 pilots who flew in the game Warbirds stopped flying with them for the same reason I won't fly with them in the future.
dago
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Took a hop in the CAF's B-17G "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY" many years back - (around 1983) the charge was $100 - my Dad bought me the flight as a Birthday Present.
One of the best presents I ever got! Got to move around all the positions and even sit in the Co-Pilot's seat for a bit. Best seat in the house was the top turret gunners spot.
If you ever get a change to do something like this DON'T PASS IT UP! If you have any kind of love of Warbirds you will love the experence. :aok
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so very true jester......awesome...
too bad i was too young ..pilto told me liek you said..we used to let guys sit an dtake the controls...!!!!!...i want that!!!!
Dago..i find it kindo of wak that you say.."dotn fly with them"..but dont say why./....."come after you"..?...what is this a CIA cover up?
Maybe you shouldnt of bad mouthed the poeple spending millions of dollars and voluterering thousands of hours for us Amercans to see a living tribute to our friends and family from WW2...and around the world...
You kind of did a drive by...and i feel a bit pissed for that, cause I donate money to this cause.
If you feel its so bad..say why or shut up...Dont just "insinuate"..
btw Jester..$100 buck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 dammmm thats good price Ithink they will let you taxi for 100 now..lolol
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Greencloud, have you taken perception lessons from miko????
I never said "don't fly with them". Please show me where I made that statement! And please show me where I badmouthed any of them. I await your illustration of these comments you say I made.
I just said I am not going to fly with them, and I know others who won't. That was all I said. You choose to read more into it than that.
I have my reasons, and I will keep it to myself, for my own reasons.
Do what you want, enjoy!
BTW, I did ride in 909 once.
dago
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Originally posted by Dago
Some people won't fly in the Collings Foundations, and knowing what I know now, I am one of them.
dago
Ok, why? I flew in the 909 and loved it! Gave me an appreciation of what the Mighty 8th had to deal with. Had a great flight, but one could see that there wasn't a lot to keep one alive if a 190 strafed it.
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Ok, why?
God there are a lot of dull minded nearly illiterate people here.
I don't care what you do, I don't care if you fly in the Collings Foundations aircraft.
Just for clarity, I will qoute myself, now pay attention:
I have my reasons, and I will keep it to myself, for my own reasons.
Now, if those words are too big to understand let me know, in the mean time stop asking me. Just ignore me if you don't care for what I said. I attacked noone, insinuated nothing. Just made a statement of personal preferance.
sheesh
dago
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Greencloud, my apologies, I didn't pick up on this earlier:
then Homeboy who was in ball gunner said.
Dago..i find it kindo of wak that you say.
Sorry, I didn't notice you are a 12 yr old dumbchit, and I certainly should have by your attempt at using "cool" "street" language only actually used by little kids and dorky housewives. :rofl
Oh well, you are probably in bed already anyway, even if it's not a school night. :rofl
dago
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Originally posted by Dago
God there are a lot of dull minded nearly illiterate people here.
I don't care what you do, I don't care if you fly in the Collings Foundations aircraft.
Just for clarity, I will qoute myself, now pay attention:
Now, if those words are too big to understand let me know, in the mean time stop asking me. Just ignore me if you don't care for what I said. I attacked noone, insinuated nothing. Just made a statement of personal preferance.
sheesh
dago
You insinuated that there was something wrong with the aircraft or the foundation. That said, I will now ignore.
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Yeah... you can't have that bad habit... it's mine.
OI! what you talkin about... thats MY habit...keep your sandy greenslime covered claws off it...
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Just ignore me if you don't care for what I said. I attacked noone, insinuated nothing.
I will respond 1 more to u...
You insinu'd nothing?...lmfao...
You know you remind me of the morons in MA...whhhaa....Im going to squeclh you......
WHY THE F EVEN TELL US THEN...JUST STFU and go away..we dont need your spewing diarea drive by.... Does this thread say..BASH a group of great people?....NO
Why come in here..and say some crap like ..."I would never fly with them"....
And provide no competent reasons why..
Why even say anything?...
Just get the hell out of here...
But..im sure you will reply back with your oh so witty insults...
wtg Mo
You are an A#1 reason this BB has a slight stench of crap in it...
Nothing positive....just in here to bash
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You da bomb greencloud, man you is so wak, imma all down with da 411 u be about. hahahahahaha
Do you like that Justin Timberlake? He thinks he is black too.
dago
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These threads never go well.
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Originally posted by hawker238
These threads never go well.
On the other hand, chorizo burritoes are good.
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Many years ago I flew People's Express.
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I can turn down the lights in my "office" with a remote.
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I like lasagna.
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Originally posted by Dago
I like lasagna.
spaghetti is better
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Originally posted by XtrmeJ
Well so much for accusations on this guy being MrBlack, we can applaud the effort tho. I'm sure MrBlack is still lerking around. We just need some better "accusers" to find him. Whos up for the challenge. Place a bounty on his head, 5 dollars to the man who finds him! I think I have a good clue of who it is, you know who you are, and I'm comming for you.
So what? MrBlack- BGBMAW- six of one, half a dozen of the other. Only difference between the two is BGBMAW still lives at home while MrBlack lives in his father in law's garage.
It's not like we accused Toad or Sandman of being MrBlack. :rolleyes:
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spaghetti is better
Blasphemy!! :)
When you make lasagna with some sweet Italian sausage, layer in some ricotta cheese, add the right sauce, it just doesn't get better than that for a great pasta disk.
Of course, a good steak on the grill is still carniverous heaven, but lasagna is the tops for me in the pasta realm.
dago
(maybe i gotta start a "favorite food" thread?)
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"God there are a lot of dull minded nearly illiterate people here."
Gross understatment!
Now. Ask him who he's voting for in November. ;)
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Some people won't fly in the Collings Foundations, and knowing what I know now, I am one of them.
Drive by puke
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Oh man! That reminds me of the time I drove by puke at Mardi Gras. It was everywhere, and I had just sprayed some tire black on the Firestones. Whew...made it out though.