Archive for the 'From The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot files' category
Needs A Little Sheet Metal Work
April 26, 2008 10:05 am
This poor C-47 is in desperate need of a little work. This picture was taken in Kweilin, China, 1943, no other information is known but there must be quite a story behind this.
Source: Jack Cook Collection
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
January 17, 2008 5:31 amStrange uses for military surplus
January 6, 2008 12:54 pmFound On YouTube - Marshalling Jets
December 29, 2007 2:29 amAdventures of an AT-11
September 29, 2007 6:59 pmG. Willie Kidnapped!
July 20, 2007 3:54 pmHow About a 1:1 Model Warbird?
January 4, 2007 4:57 pm
The Hornell Evening Tribune in Hornell, NY reports this week on George Lucas (not the Star Wars director) of Nunda, NY and his passion for building model warbirds… FULL SIZE MODELS! Mr. Lucas has been building these “works of warbird art” for the past 35 years using only basic materials like wood, masonite, and some creative uses for common household items.
His latest aircraft, a Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 “Ohka” (nicknamed “Baka” or “stupid” by the allies) took a little less than a year to build. Using original drawings and plans and much as possible, as well as photos and illustrations, his replicas are very accurate on the outside, but are meant to be only accurate from that view. Inside, other than the cockpit, the replicas are nothing like the original, but still they look amazing.
Several of George’s planes are on display at the Planes of Fame Air Museum including a ME163 replica (click this link for photos), and his first aircraft, a Bf-109, is on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum.
So if you are looking for an affordable warbird suitable for your living room, you might want to give George a call!
Posted by Ryan Keough
Enter to Win an F-4 Phantom?
11:31 am
A curious raffle was found by some astute readers at the Warbird Information Exchange (WIX). It seems that a McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom is being raffled off by an organization in Alamogordo, New Mexico, but it is a static display plane only. Take a look at the discussion at WIX to learn about the history of the plane and its curious story. From the looks of the website, the only way you can enter to win is by buying some F-4 merchandise… and a “travel voucher” of some kind.
There are some catches though… if you win it, you have to bring it home from NM yourself! And don’t think of flying it back either… this plane is for static display only and it is sufficiently demil’ed to assure it stays that way! I apologize to our readers in Florida and New York… you aren’t eligible… shucks!
Posted by Ryan Keough
Airline and Aviation Humor
August 20, 2006 1:53 pmSome humor making the rounds on the e-mail circuit 
In Flight Humor
Pilot: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants …”
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Pilot: “The weather at our destination is a cool 50 degrees with some broken clouds. We are hopeful that they’ll have them fixed before we arrive.”
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Pilot’s welcome (after learning of his airline’s award, on another route): “… We are pleased to have some of the very best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight.”
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TheStar.com - Aviation history is made by ‘flapper’
July 11, 2006 1:33 pmTheStar.com reports that a Canadian inventor takes a short flight in the worlds first ornithopter, which is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings!
