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Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: airspro on February 09, 2002, 08:47:12 PM: I just got back .

Some good times to remember here .

Nice to meet them all .

spro
New updated link to photos's (http://photos.yahoo.com/sprocketrocket)
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: tigman on February 09, 2002, 09:04:10 PM: Nice to meet everyone today ....Thanks for the fun! :D
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: popeye on February 10, 2002, 09:25:42 AM: Real fun to meet everyone. Thanks for the pix!

popeye
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Dago on February 10, 2002, 10:01:45 AM: Pretty shady looking group to me!
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: SOB on February 10, 2002, 10:11:38 AM: Man, people from Michigan sure are ugly! :p Great pics...how about a lineup from left to right of who's who in the above picture?

SOB
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Sachs on February 10, 2002, 10:15:44 AM: It was great meeting everyone as well. Had a great time, seeing the F7F and F8F was worth the squeaking I got after we left the con. Spro you owe me big time GF didn't think I was online that much lol. Anyway we will have to do this again maybe in Summer?
Title: left to right
Post by: airspro on February 10, 2002, 10:41:03 AM: AG and son , pimpjoe , me ,tigman , popeye , and Camo

My wife took the pic :D

Thanks Debbie .
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Chaos68 on February 10, 2002, 11:43:10 AM: damn i wish i could have made that!

what was that sim that was near the bottom of your picture list?

was it MSFS or something else?
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: pimpjoe on February 10, 2002, 11:49:25 AM: was great to finally put a face to some of the people that shoot me down! i agree AG...we need to do this again.

BTW thats some different sim. its really cool tho...it goes inverted and everything.
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Sachs on February 10, 2002, 01:07:52 PM: Nothing is more beautiful then being able to touch this bird. If my son wasn't there you might have had to pry my leg's off of the front strut :P

http://www.geocities.com/spro400/minicon/ag2.jpg

If you want I can set something up for later on?
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: pimpjoe on February 10, 2002, 01:40:06 PM: Quote
July 20-21(Tentative Date): WARBIRDS OVER KALAMAZOO! Bigger and better is what's in store for this year's event! Get up close and personal to the aircraft that dominated the sky before, during and after WWII. Warbirds and their owners from all over the country will take part in this great weekend of flying and fun!

sounds like a good one to me:)
Title: some more pics from the con
Post by: airspro on February 10, 2002, 02:42:46 PM: http://photos.yahoo.com/sprocketrocket

I added the other F7F pics for you too AG :)

Those ww1 planes are really smaller than I thought . I got to think some ultra lights might be bigger , hehe .

The hand by the Mig15 is popeye's . That's one BFG there . It was a beaut of a plane , polished to the max .

Be sure and check out the B29 motor , thats a beast for sure . It's HUGE .

spro

EDIT : The above link now works , just click on "vactions" seen as a slide show option has LESS adds .
Title: I GOT BUSTED , lol
Post by: airspro on February 10, 2002, 02:48:49 PM: They just deleted the whole web site . fek it

well they were there , lol .

Here's the B29 motor .
Title: F7F
Post by: airspro on February 10, 2002, 02:57:57 PM: Here u go
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on February 10, 2002, 04:49:15 PM: Whaaa, I didnt get to see the pics!

Thanks guys, I had a blast! We have to do this again some time. :)

I'll post my pics into this thread asap.

Camo
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Zigrat on February 10, 2002, 05:02:31 PM: isnt that a long trip for you camo?
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on February 10, 2002, 05:05:25 PM: Nothing that I wouldn't do to see my AH buddies! :)

Lol, actually I'm spending a year of exchange studies in Toledo, Ohio. About 2hrs drive to Kalamazoo. ;)

Camo
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: airspro on February 11, 2002, 05:10:58 AM: My e-mail address is

sprocket@cmsinter.net

I can send most of the pics to you that want them . Just shoot me a e mail so I know were to send them :) .

Am looking for more web space that isn't so picky :

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EDIT : Got all up but the mpg's :)

Seen as a slide show option has less adds :
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: K West on February 11, 2002, 08:10:15 AM: How's that "6" view? :) A lot better than one would think isn't it?

Thanks for the pictures! Nice to put faces and names together. Especially my squadmate Popeye. Dago had always said this picture on the MOL squad site was Popeye,

(http://www.everwonder.com/david/popeye/pics/10.jpg)

But he looks so normal and respectable. This is going to take me some time to adjust to :)

Westy
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Ripsnort on February 11, 2002, 08:52:10 AM: Ha! Popeye is an old fart like me! :D
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: popeye on February 11, 2002, 09:28:06 AM: I yam what I yam.

(Actually MUCH younger than Ripsnort.) (And MUCH better looking than Dago.) :D
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: tigman on February 11, 2002, 12:24:25 PM: Good thing that camera didn't show the wrinkles behind my glasses...hehehehe
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on February 11, 2002, 03:25:31 PM: Thanks for the pics, Sprocket! :)

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Originally posted by K West
How's that "6" view? :) A lot better than one would think isn't it?

Well, it is good if you have the canopy open! I had it closed, and that convinced me that the 6-view from the Hellcat is crap indeed. ;)

I took a video from the inside, from left-6 to right-6 -view. It shows the crappy 6 view pretty well, I'll post a shot from the video. Even when leaning forward and putting my head against the glass, I couldn't see the root of the elevator/horizontal stabilizer. No way to see the rear fuselage or vertical stabilizer at all. The headrest/armor is really high and the high-6 view is poor. One of Sprocket's pics shows me sitting in the wildcat, looking back to 5 oclock.

Last summer I sat in a finnish 109 G-6 with the "Erla Haube" canopy. The view to the rear sector is MUCH better than in the kitty, in all respects. The head armor is a glass panel, which gives a much less restricted rear view than in the kitty. Also, the fuselage of the hellcat is much wider than that of the 109, which plays a big role in this. The kitty's rear fuselage covers a bigger area, creating a larger blind spot.

Btw, I knew that the P47 and F4U are big, but I was really surprised of the huge size of the F4F and F6F! Compared to the 109 or P40, they are massive!

Camo
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Wmaker on February 11, 2002, 04:52:12 PM: CAMO YOU &#¤%#"!!!!!

Muistatko kun tästä jo moskiitossa puhuttiin ja mies se vaan kääntää veistä haavassa!!! :)

Hittolainen...ja kuten em. kypsä reaktio osoitti....yhtään ei käy kateeks!!!

Nähdään viimestään MM02:ssa, pidä hauskaa! ;)
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: AKIron on February 11, 2002, 05:23:41 PM: Quote
Originally posted by LLv34_Camouflage
Well, it is good if you have the canopy open! I had it closed, and that convinced me that the 6-view from the Hellcat is crap indeed. ;)

Is there a rear view mirror up front?
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: pimpjoe on February 11, 2002, 06:55:34 PM: correction camo....that was a wildcat:)

and no there wasnt a rearview mirror. those guys were crazy to hop in that thing but we were talking to one of the vets there and joking about the 6 view, he said "thats what wingmen are for":)
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: Sachs on February 12, 2002, 07:45:52 AM: the guy from the netherlands was great to talk to. he worked in the airport i believe and had a few interesting stories. Still in love with that f7f sheesh when do we get it again?
Title: mini con pics , from Michigan
Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on February 12, 2002, 03:22:21 PM: Neener neener, Video! :p Come and visit me this summer. We can drive to Kalamazoo and Dayton. :)

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Originally posted by pimpjoe
correction camo....that was a wildcat:)

Hmm, I know that. I wonder why I wrote hellcat. :confused:

Here's the right-6 view from the wildcat, sorry for the crappy picture quality. But as you can see, it's more like a 5oc view! You can see the elevator behind the guy in the white jacket.