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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Spikes on July 13, 2007, 02:15:38 PM
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So, we were having a picnic at Lake Delta (Rome, NY). We were under a pavilion (surrounded in trees). There was music playing, but out of that music, I heard a faint sound. I walk out from under it. Low and behold, a C47 is flying over! I thought it was pretty cool...considering not very many were flying...
I do not have a picture, because I did not have a camera...
It also had invasion stripes...
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You might be surprised to know how many C-47's/DC-3's are still flying. They're still cool none the less :) :aok
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AHHHH WW2 HAS STARTED AGIAN AAHHH.
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I learned the hard way to keep a camera with me at all times. I keep a digital camera in my truck now all the time just in case
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C-47/DC3 are making good runs south of the border. My Great Uncle ran a courier service back and forth between Mexico, Guatamala, Venezuela in the good years. During my college summer years I got alot of stick time in a DC3. It was very maintenance intensive but was fun. It was hot, dirty and smelly job but I loved the airplane and the flying. Yeah it is just as slow as the AH version. :aok
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My driver was a parajumper in WW2, he use to jump from C-47's, he use to ride in those planes that were gliders that got towed in(not sure what they were called), he has some pretty good storys about it.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
I learned the hard way to keep a camera with me at all times. I keep a digital camera in my truck now all the time just in case
I had my cellphone but by the time I got it out it already flew past :cry
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Originally posted by trax1
My driver ...
How the other half lives...:O
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Yeah, seems like most of AH could say that too, but they'd have to add the words
"school bus"
in between ...
:p
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Originally posted by Solar10
How the other half lives...:O
Trust me I'm not rich, I just can't drive(long story) so I have to pay someone to do it for me.
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Originally posted by P47Gra
C-47/DC3 are making good runs south of the border. My Great Uncle ran a courier service back and forth between Mexico, Guatamala, Venezuela in the good years. During my college summer years I got alot of stick time in a DC3. It was very maintenance intensive but was fun. It was hot, dirty and smelly job but I loved the airplane and the flying. Yeah it is just as slow as the AH version.
Que the theme music! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZwu54S94-4)
....and yes, I've played this on iPod while running drunks via goon in game.
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Originally posted by Ghastly
Yeah, seems like most of AH could say that too, but they'd have to add the words
"school bus"
in between ...
:p
:rofl
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Originally posted by tedrbr
Que the theme music! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZwu54S94-4)
....and yes, I've played this on iPod while running drunks via goon in game.
Try this...
Stephen Stills even explains what's goin' on :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUmIO_MG5IU
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Originally posted by Golfer
You might be surprised to know how many C-47's/DC-3's are still flying. They're still cool none the less :) :aok
I am very fortunate to have a window-cubicle just next to the runways at Long Beach Airport, (LGA). The former Douglas factories surrounding the airport are now owned by Boeing, and they still make C-17's here, and we see them take off and land almost every day. We also occasionally see military jets roll in and out for maintenance, including the B-2 Bomber, several F/A-18s, and lots of T-38's.
We also see our fair share of Warbirds, and have seen in the past 12 months a B24, a B17, a B25, and a few Mustangs. They apparently come in for various maintenance items too.
This is also a commercial and general-aviation airport too, so there's lots of modern passenger gets and old private planes.
But getting back to the post, there's a fleet of 2 or 3 DC3's that make the mail-run to Catalina Island about 3 or 4 times a day, so I've seen a DC3 fly, takeoff, or land about a million times over the past 9 years.
I still stop and imagine what a sky full of them must have been like every time I see it...
-Llama
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Originally posted by trax1
My driver was a parajumper in WW2, he use to jump from C-47's, he use to ride in those planes that were gliders that got towed in(not sure what they were called), he has some pretty good storys about it.
Your "Driver"? What, you got a friggen Chauffeur? :rolleyes:
Oz
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Originally posted by ozrocker
Your "Driver"? What, you got a friggen Chauffeur? :rolleyes:
Oz
No, like I stated in an earlier post I can't drive so I have a guy I pay to drive for me, believe me I wish I could drive but I can't(it's a long story)
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Was there 15 Spit 16s on its tail spraying?
If you say no, I dont believe it was a C47.
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Originally posted by SpikesX
So, we were having a picnic at Lake Delta (Rome, NY). We were under a pavilion (surrounded in trees). There was music playing, but out of that music, I heard a faint sound. I walk out from under it. Low and behold, a C47 is flying over! I thought it was pretty cool...considering not very many were flying...
I do not have a picture, because I did not have a camera...
It also had invasion stripes...
What I`m curious about is the rest of the story. Did they drop 10 troops and take the picnic basket?
:)
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one of my friends (who play AH2) said while he was walkin his dog a B17 flew overhead
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Originally posted by Jackal1
What I`m curious about is the rest of the story. Did they drop 10 troops and take the picnic basket?
:)
no, the pavilion was still up. PAY ATTENTION
and the goons buddies were probably all too busy vulching the parkinglot to take it down.:lol
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if u look closely on the c47 right be hind the cockpit, theres a dome. i dont have any idea why that would be there. maybe the aces high staff can turn it into a turret.
p51srule :aok
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:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by FBplmmr
no, the pavilion was still up. PAY ATTENTION
and the goons buddies were probably all too busy vulching the parkinglot to take it down.:lol
:rofl
You are correct. Bad SA on my part.
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Originally posted by Jonny boy 8
if u look closely on the c47 right be hind the cockpit, theres a dome. i dont have any idea why that would be there. maybe the aces high staff can turn it into a turret.
Dome: There for navigator to be able to navigate by the stars at night, and possibly even by day with sextant. C47 was military version of DC-3 early passenger plane. Probably also useful in checking for icing depending on the field of view.
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Well this really went off topic :(
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OMG....Delta Lake. Last time I was there was one hell of a party. I'm trying to remember the names of the girls....but for the life of me I can't. Ah the days at SUNYCOT.
Ahhhh....thanks for stirring up that great memory.
When I was there we only saw A-10's and B-52's in the air. Noisey bastages.
Softail
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Originally posted by Latrobe
one of my friends (who play AH2) said while he was walkin his dog a B17 flew overhead
I've Been up close and Personal with THIS plane. :O
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2003/Sampler/SentimentalJourneyBanking.jpg)
(http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Boeing-B17/info/sentimental-journey.jpg)
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Probably heading here:
http://www.1941hag.org/files_airshow/airshow2007.html
Was a good show. :)
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Well if the topic is serendipitous encounters with warbirds here’s mine: I was driving back home onto base near sunset and was annoyed at getting stopped at a stoplight. Then I heard something beautiful. Wow, that sounds like a Merlin.* Sure enough a Spit XIV flies right across the road directly in front of me at an altitude that was probably illegal. He was even banking slightly towards me in a turn towards the runway. He was heading for the base field for an air show that weekend. A truly beautiful sight and so weird to see it while sitting in traffic.
The next morning I was mowing my lawn and suddenly a TBM flew over on its way to the same air show. That was decidedly NOT a beautiful sound or beautiful airplane. It sounded like a couple dozen angry lawn mowers all out of sync and what a big ugly thing it was.
*Yeah… OK, it’s a Griffin not a Merlin.
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Originally posted by TheBug
Probably heading here:
http://www.1941hag.org/files_airshow/airshow2007.html
Was a good show. :)
Any rain Saturday? Going for the Sunday show.
Yikes... 1:20am. Better get to bed for the early rise. Want to get there by 10am for the show.
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Originally posted by llama
I am very fortunate to have a window-cubicle just next to the runways at Long Beach Airport, (LGA). The former Douglas factories surrounding the airport are now owned by Boeing, and they still make C-17's here, and we see them take off and land almost every day. We also occasionally see military jets roll in and out for maintenance, including the B-2 Bomber, several F/A-18s, and lots of T-38's.
We also see our fair share of Warbirds, and have seen in the past 12 months a B24, a B17, a B25, and a few Mustangs. They apparently come in for various maintenance items too.
This is also a commercial and general-aviation airport too, so there's lots of modern passenger gets and old private planes.
But getting back to the post, there's a fleet of 2 or 3 DC3's that make the mail-run to Catalina Island about 3 or 4 times a day, so I've seen a DC3 fly, takeoff, or land about a million times over the past 9 years.
I still stop and imagine what a sky full of them must have been like every time I see it...
-Llama
Hey Llama, I live in So Cal too, and see that mail run plane all the time. The aggressive way they bank that thing in and land it, I always think it's gonna crash.
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columbian drug cartels use c47s .... what just saying
btw there is a company called basler i believe that is currently refurbishing many c47s with updates like new radar turboporop engines longer wings etc.... for many countire's militaries check out Air Forces magazine its gret :P
israel just sold its fleet of about 7 of em :)
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Originally posted by fuzeman
Any rain Saturday? Going for the Sunday show.
Yikes... 1:20am. Better get to bed for the early rise. Want to get there by 10am for the show.
No rain until the ride home, so we lucked out. Hopefully the Spitfires will be back up in the air for you. Both that flew yesterday had to be towed back to their static stand. Heard talk that they were overheating.
Enjoy the show, I'm glad to see that the Geneseo show is building back up to what it use to be.
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I don't know if they are still doing it but, the Lee County (Fort Myers) Florida mosquito control had 4 or 5 DC-3s they used to spray for mosquitos. They would spray in formation. It was quite impressive to see 4 DC-3s flying low overhead. I almost ran off of the interstate one day watching them.
I live a little bit north of there, so I have not seen it in a while. Maybe some AHer from Fort Myers could let us know if they are still flying.
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my da owns a b24 i cant amagine having to sit in that ball turret shootin at german planes
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Originally posted by 715
...at an altitude that was probably illegal...
Altitude restrictions say something along the lines of "except as necessary for takeoffs and landings." The only "illegal" possibility would be a judgment by the FAA or even local officials (who regulate operation of motor vehicles) of unsafe operation. But it would have to be a pretty blatant infraction.
I used to fly out of Tew-Mac, a small airport that was located right off the main road through Tewksbury, MA. The landings on RWY 03 involved coming right over a miniature golf course, then Route 38. I know I must have freaked out many motorists in my time, since the displaced threshold of 3 must have been less than 30 feet from the road.
I blew the skirts up on some pedestrians on my takeoff rolls.
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well I have DC3's fly-overs al the time. They are mosquito killers in my area and fly only about 100ft of the ground its neat to see them:O
we also have airshowes were they have B-17 flights over the area. I have been in one when I was vey young and don't remember at all
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Originally posted by 64kills
my da owns a b24 i cant amagine having to sit in that ball turret shootin at german planes
He didn't by chance fly F16's for the CIA did he?
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no why:huh he just owns a b24 named the factory buster
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what are dc3's will someone post a picture of one:confused:
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the b17 in the picture was the planes name that was my granps right wingman on the misions inbritain
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I own a couple B-24s.
(http://www.collectableships.com/models/images/Vota/B24d_JRogers.jpg)
Are his like mine?
A DC-3 is a C-47.
(http://www.woolyfsh.com/seasongs/dc3.jpg)
Also...
In life and especially in here it is bad form to lie about things. You know this I'm sure. Whether or not it's about owning a B-24 other than a model or RC version; or about fibbing as to being a member of the armed forces by your location in your profile. Here's a freebie to rethink what you're saying and to correct it before you earn yourself a label. This also includes making things up for no reason about your family members' service records. Things that for a myriad of reasons are untrue and easily proved as such. They might fly in your 7th grade class but they don't work here with people who not only know infinately more than you but have also flown, worked on or served aboard those very airplanes.
Good luck.
Basically you're at a fork in the road:
-Path 1: You're going to insist what you're saying is true. If you do this you will be shot down in no time at all because what your saying is not hard to discredit because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Doing this will label you forever as a fraud. This is the bad road.
-Path 2: You admit you're not telling the truth, learn a lesson and don't do it again. You earn respect and are going to be more welcome than path 1. I fear that you will need to go down path 1 to learn this lesson but there's always hope. Again...good luck.
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i said my granps not me and thats a j/k
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i can't tell you if it is due to the fact that the oicture is an x all of them are the same color i think whats the name of the plane
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64kills go back and read my post again. I've made a couple edits to the text under the photographs. Please read it.
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i saw that but if you want to show me the b24s then you have to put then on the internet
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Here's a B-24 that I own and operate. (http://shop.eaa.org/StoreImages/2007/model_b24_200.jpg)
Is your dad's like mine? And please please please take into account the text I wrote in my above posts before answering.
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no his is silver and chech private mesages
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What I'm getting at is...aw nevermind. Good luck.
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check private meseges
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Tell me a little more about his B-24. I'm sure we'd all love to hear about such an outstanding feature of our community.
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will you listen check private messeges
all i know is it looks cool and it's silver ok the name is factory buster
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I did check my private messages. Yours consisted of 3 words. "OK I did." What's that mean and how does that help me with what you're trying to say?
Where's he keep his airplane? Does he have it flown to airshows?
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ok i did lie sryy toevery one
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Originally posted by 64kills
ok i did lie sryy toevery one
ROFL....
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Now let's move on from here :)
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move on how
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By promising not to tell anymore fibs, lies, tales or fish stories unless of course it's about fishing.
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well little lies are one thing that you can get away with but big ones like that are stupid :aok
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Originally posted by 64kills
move on how
how about, getting back on topic.
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me thinks a scorpion and a c1a f16 will be in here somewhere
btw 64kills all of the more dated ah players have fib esp you cant lie to us:noid
btw stang stop leaving the door to the freeloader forums open:furious
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Nothing to see here. Move along now....
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Originally posted by evenhaim
me thinks a scorpion and a c1a f16 will be in here somewhere
I realize you didn`t mean anything by this and it just sort of slipped out. It`s also actualy a minor thing, but you might want to have second thoughts about posting things of this nature in the future considering the world events as of now. This could possibly be researched a little further by one of the in house ghost ops guys and cause trouble. I give you an example that "The Big Guy" could just happen to operative again on some secret mission to save the world and we don`t want to take a chance on causing trouble for our heroes.
I understand that Mickey Rourke remove the "SRV" patch from his MC jacket for just this reason.
:)
:D
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Originally posted by evenhaim
btw stang stop leaving the door to the freeloader forums open:furious
I forgot to lock the door on my way out he must have snuck out.....:o :D
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This made me laugh at 12:48 am, thanks!
I think a CIA scorpion is downstairs drinking my beer, wait, a black B24 is flying low overhead as well, what could this mean?
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Originally posted by kj714
I think a CIA scorpion is downstairs drinking my beer, wait, a black B24 is flying low overhead as well, what could this mean?
Either you are being scoped by "The Big Guy"...........or......you had some bad shrooms in that pasta you had earlier.