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I'll have a diet Coke, super size diabetes, and a................




That does come with a heart attack, rite?

 

^^^

Selling those now at your local county fair.......

I'll stick with the funnel cakes........

 

WWII scrap P-38s


http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?style=4&f=52&t=121562of

 

Ouch.
One of the coolest warplanes ever.

If I had a million dollars....(or twelve)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM

 

Well, you saw what the Navy and Marines did with their flying hardware when they had to evacuate Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War?

 

Over the side they went!

 

Yellersprits post of the P 38s reminded me of a show I saw on on the fishing channel, or the outdoors channel or somewhere about a couple who retired and decided to go fishing.
They bought and had rebuilt a WWII vintage PBY Catalinia.
Cool already, right?
They had the twin engined flying boat inside outfitted like an Airstream trailer, and had custom made canoes that rode on the pontoons.
They could fly to the Caribbean, Alaska or Australia and live in their flying home, go fishing every day, and cook their catch in the kitchen of thier flying boat.
GAWD, I wish I had that kind of money!
Donald Trump kind of money, I guess.
I wasn't able to find their video, but here's a similar plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_7q4vDZeJo

 

All of us members could go together and do that Pinebox. Each would get one weekend to use it.

 

I like this water bird, it's home base is Sproat lake on my island. It's gone everywhere helping with wild fires, California and as far as Mexico. You can see it most of the year docked and once several years back I got to see it take off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbVpVDhLI9E

The Martin Mars, we have 2 of them both built in 1945........

 

Copied off the other site.


America produced some 294,000 aircraft for WWII. Of that number, 21,583 (7.34%) were lost in the United States in test flights, ferrying, training accidents, etc., and 43,581 were lost en route to the war and in overseas operations.

By 1944 the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration began a program to scrap certain obsolete, damaged and surplus military aircraft overseas.

Following the war, estimates of the number of excess surplus airplanes ran as high as 150,000. Consideration was given to storing a substantial number of these.

Beginning in 1944, domestic aircraft declared surplus were turned over to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The RFC established depots around the country to store and sell surplus aircraft. By the summer of 1945, at least 30 sales-storage depots and 23 sales centers were in operation. In November 1945, it was estimated a total of 117,210 aircraft would be transferred as surplus.

Between 1945 and June 1947, the RFC, War Assets Corporation and the War Assets Administration (disposal function of the RFC was transferred to WAC on January 15, 1946, and to the WAA in March of 1946) processed approximately 61,600 WWII aircraft, of which 34,700 were sold for flyable purposes and 26,900, primarily combat types, were sold for scrapping.

Most of the transports and trainers could be used in the civilian fleet, and trainers were sold for $875 to $2,400. The fighters and bombers were of little peacetime use, although some were sold. Typical prices for surplus aircraft were:

• BT-13, $450
  P-38, $1,250
  AT-6, $1,500
  A-26, $ 2,000
  P-51, $3,500
  B-25, $8,250
  B-17, $13,750
  B-24, $13,750
  B-32, $32,500

Many aircraft were transferred to schools for educational purposes, and to communities for memorial use for a minimal fee. One source reported a Boy Scout Troop bought a B-17 for $350.

A Walnut Ridge hometown institution, Southern Baptist College, purchased two of the aircraft stored at Walnut Ridge, a C-47 and a C-46. The exact purchase price for these is unknown, but is believed to have been around $600 to $800 each.

 

Grumman Albatross - Jimmy Buffett's transportation

 

KK, I rode in a Chalks Grumman Goose from Ft. Lauderdale FL to Nassau Bahamas twice.
They upgraded to the "Mallard" later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk's_International_Airlines
I think they ceased operation a few years ago.

 

Went boating today part 1........

Had a small get together today with friends of the family.

Spotted a whale on the way, first one I have seen in over a year out here!



Picked up Walter and my Kid then went and picked my dad's old drinking buddy Roman at his house witch was built in 1920. The original skilled wood work inside in mind blowing!



And rite across the street from Roman's house is the Craigdarrock castle, built between 1887-1890...

http://thecastle.ca/



Then out on the boat leaving the inner harbor, a really big boat unloading brand new big $.$$$.$$$ boats......

http://www.spliethoff.com/

 

Went boating today part 2........

Now out in the ocean, we passed this stunning old sail ship heading towards the inner harbor ...........



Shortly after a Pilot boat was on a mission ...........



If you look real hard you will see a small dot behind the freighter, that's the pilot boat and the Washington State USA way behind that covered in clouds....

 

Went boating today part 3........

Back in the inner harbor, that old sail boat.....





Taxi anyone? I'd like to know what they have for engines because these little things haul @zz!





And docked again, Empress Hotel finished in 1908 to the left ....

http://www.fairmont.com/empress-vic...h&s_kwcid=TC-1025557-11272463540-e-1478293561

and you can see the green patina copper bubble top on the Parliament Bld.

http://www.victoriabc.ca/victoria/parliamentbuildings.htm



This pic from the net....