Let's be more inclusive here.

The Mach Loop

I can't wait to attend EAA Air Venture 2021. They are planning to do most of the events for the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII this year since it was cancelled last year. I'm also getting a ride on a P51 for my father. Planning to record everything. I'm already getting excited!

Still the most aesthetic ever

My vote for most beautiful of all time:

Nope. Not even close to this:

And for the ugliest, I used to work across the runway from a dozen of these things. They were loud enough that if I was on a webex in a flight line trailer I'd have to go on mute until it passed.

Dutch F-16 came up to say hi a while back

The last few I took ten years ago, so the resolution and noise are not the best. The rest are not mine. The NASA rocket fuel transporter pic was one my old man took at GGG.

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I was surprised to learn that it is the "grandchild" of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress

This is not the best quality photo, but this is a picture I took in 2012 when I was working on the roof of the Fox News building in Manhattan. The Enterprise shuttle was floating on a barge going down the Hudson River shortly before being lifted onto the deck of an aircraft carrier at the Intrepid Museum. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo when they were lifting it on deck.

Those crazy Japanese...

aggieforester05 said:

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This is not the best quality photo, but this is a picture I took in 2012 when I was working on the roof of the Fox News building in Manhattan. The Enterprise shuttle was floating on a barge going down the Hudson River shortly before being lifted onto the deck of an aircraft carrier at the Intrepid Museum. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo when they were lifting it on deck.

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Stupid crying Charlie Bolden. Enterprise should be at JSC.

Toilet bomber takes flight in Vietnam

B-26G Martin Marauder

XP-67 McDonnell Moonbat

hunterntexas said:

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The idea of washing the airplane. Gonna wax it too? Japanese are fastidious about appearance, even up to and beyond efficacy.

One example - we had a batch of Japanese F-16 drag chute D Rings (the frangible part that keeps you from ripping off the end of the airplane) that were failing prematurely. Japanese said our design was bad.

Turns out when that batch of D Rings had been delivered to the chute installer, the Japanese air force quality rep had raised hell because there were runs in the paint. Mind you - the paint met all spec requirements, it just wasn't pretty because of a few runs.

He insisted the parts be stripped and repainted. But ALL the "bad" paint - every damn molecule - had to be stripped to assure it was perfect. So a heated acid bath was used to strip the parts - which also removed the temper from the 7050 aluminum and thus weakened the parts.

So - once they looked perfect - they were about 30% weaker and thus broke prematurely. The Japanese finally agreed out design was fine, but never admitted their own people were the ones who ****ed up the parts.

That - and them running in the office to prove how hard they're working - are just some of what makes them a PITA to work with.

I listened to speed check on YouTube again the other day. Great story.

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hunterntexas said:

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Those crazy Japanese...

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The idea of washing the airplane. Gonna wax it too? Japanese are fastidious about appearance, even up to and beyond efficacy.

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You sure it's not the ANAL part that's crazy?

Let's get this thread back on track...

I expected to see something like this.