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Getting Windy... (Read 984 times)
Apr 11
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, 2011 at 7:48pm
patchz
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Anyone have a really big kite I can borrow? It's getting rather windy here.
If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.
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Apr 12
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Good morning Larry...
Looks like you need an umbrella as I see some severe thunderstorms as well...
The flooding I see, would that be along the Mississippi River?
Stay in bed and pull covers over head...Larry...
Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
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Apr 12
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, 2011 at 6:50pm
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Thanks Doug.
Actually, it never got that bad here. It got pretty windy for a little while before the storm front arrived, then just a little rain. It passed rather quietly. Folks a good bit further north did not have it so lucky.
If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.
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Apr 12
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My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off. I always find them so spooky. Can't wait to move there next year.
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Apr 13
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BigTruck wrote
on Apr 12
th
, 2011 at 10:51pm:
My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off. I always find them so spooky. Can't wait to move there next year.
Try moving there
in
the tornado -- quite uplifting...
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Apr 13
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, 2011 at 10:52pm
patchz
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H wrote
on Apr 13
th
, 2011 at 3:35pm:
BigTruck wrote
on Apr 12
th
, 2011 at 10:51pm:
My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off. I always find them so spooky. Can't wait to move there next year.
Try moving there
in
the tornado -- quite uplifting...
And will only cause a bit more damage than the regular movers.
If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.
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Apr 15
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, 2011 at 3:26pm
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I'd loan you my old Raven 225 hang glider, but it's probably too far gone as a feast for moths...
FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II
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Apr 15
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, 2011 at 9:44pm
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If the 225 stands for maximum pounds it can lift, we'd never get off the ground anyway.
If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.
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Apr 16
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, 2011 at 11:55am
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patchz wrote
on Apr 15
th
, 2011 at 9:44pm:
If the 225 stands for maximum pounds it can lift, we'd never get off the ground anyway.
That's a bit questionable here... we'd remain at a standstill... tethered to the nearest tree... until there was a substantial wind (I began my major interest in aircraft with
The Hurricane Story
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Apr 16
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, 2011 at 12:15pm
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It was a single surface two seat training kite,
with about a seven to one glide ratio which compared to today's kites
it dropped like a rock, high tech for the early 80's!
225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Eventually, with all the close calls, I came to realize it was a smaller mans sport
FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II
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Apr 16
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, 2011 at 12:27pm
H
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Skunkworks wrote
on Apr 16
th
, 2011 at 12:15pm:
225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Eventually, with all the close calls, I came to realize it was a smaller mans sport
Yet, if you continued... to fall like a rock.. you'd have slimmed down quite bit... unfortunately, you'd only embellish this forum as a ghost writer...
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Apr 16
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, 2011 at 1:11pm
Skunkworks
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H wrote
on Apr 16
th
, 2011 at 12:27pm:
Skunkworks wrote
on Apr 16
th
, 2011 at 12:15pm:
225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Eventually, with all the close calls, I came to realize it was a smaller mans sport
Yet, if you continued... to fall like a rock.. you'd have slimmed down quite bit... unfortunately, you'd only embellish this forum as a ghost writer...
Thanks H, I needed a good belly laugh this morning
FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II
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Apr 18
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, 2011 at 4:42am
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H wrote
on Apr 13
th
, 2011 at 3:35pm:
BigTruck wrote
on Apr 12
th
, 2011 at 10:51pm:
My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off. I always find them so spooky. Can't wait to move there next year.
Try moving there
in
the tornado -- quite uplifting...
You forget that I am a Marine...everytime I move I create an EF-5 tornado!
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Apr 18
th
, 2011 at 7:12pm
H
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BigTruck wrote
on Apr 18
th
, 2011 at 4:42am:
You forget that I am a Marine...everytime I move I create an EF-5 tornado!
No, I haven't forgotten that you're part of the
M
ilitary
A
rmed
R
etinue
I
n
N
avy
E
quiped
S
hips...
but, in that watery relationship to a twister, wouldn't you more like be spouting off?
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Apr 18
th
, 2011 at 7:54pm
BigTruck
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H wrote
on Apr 18
th
, 2011 at 7:12pm:
BigTruck wrote
on Apr 18
th
, 2011 at 4:42am:
You forget that I am a Marine...everytime I move I create an EF-5 tornado!
No, I haven't forgotten that you're part of the
M
ilitary
A
rmed
R
etinue
I
n
N
avy
E
quiped
S
hips...
but, in that watery relationship to a twister, wouldn't you more like be spouting off?
True true
M
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A
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n
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avy
E
quipment
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