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Title: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 05, 2011, 08:30:31 AM: Someone sent me this on facebook.

http://gearpatrol.com/blog/2010/12/15/b-25-mitchell-bomber-airplane-desk/ (http://gearpatrol.com/blog/2010/12/15/b-25-mitchell-bomber-airplane-desk/)
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: TOMCAT21 on February 05, 2011, 08:39:48 AM: interesting
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: 68ZooM 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/ (http://www.motoart.com/)
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 05, 2011, 12:37:14 PM: That reminds me...

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

:bolt:
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: curry1 on February 05, 2011, 04:14:43 PM: Quote from: 68ZooM 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/ (http://www.motoart.com/)
it is the same site. :noid
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: EskimoJoe 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."

:uhoh
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: Yossarian 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

Quote from: EskimoJoe 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."

:bhead

+1 .50,
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: Vudu15 on February 05, 2011, 08:44:14 PM: LOL they say a wing I say a rudder.......
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 06, 2011, 12:41:28 AM: Quote from: Vudu15 on February 05, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
LOL they say a wing I say a rudder.......

Figured you guys would know better than I :)

psst, fix you sig. :P
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: Bodhi on February 06, 2011, 01:23:25 AM: Quote from: Vudu15 on February 05, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
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.
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 06, 2011, 02:28:28 AM: Quote from: Bodhi on February 06, 2011, 01:23:25 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...
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on February 06, 2011, 03:30:11 AM: So when is some nutjob going to build an airplane out of old tables and furnitures?
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 06, 2011, 06:00:27 AM: Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on February 06, 2011, 03:30:11 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?
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on February 06, 2011, 07:12:56 AM: Quote from: VonMessa on February 06, 2011, 06:00:27 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 :)
Title: Re: For you Mitchell guys...
Post by: VonMessa on February 07, 2011, 02:39:48 AM: Just making sure :D