Simviation Forum - Brylcreem College Boys...Humbug

Aug 15^th, 2011 at 11:04am

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Goodly morning all...old girl is out so I can play... Grin

I was instructing flying on these old Curtiss Jennies before some of these brylcreem college boys were hatched right here at old Borden...yup.

http://www.whiterabbitdesigncompany.com/film/movies/brylcreem.html

A little dab'll do ya...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem

Many of us Canucks flew with the Real Flying Corps (RFC...Royal Flying Corps) or the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) from 1914 to 1918 during the Great War I think they now call World War One.

When 1917 came around they sent some of us back here to Canada to flight train students in what became the Royal Flying Corps Canada (1917).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps_Canada

Now these brylcreem college boys got themselves another war, I think they call it World War Two (1939-1945) and got themselves something called the BCATP (British Commonwealth Air Training Program) but now they tell me my aeroplane and I are too old...imagine too old to help out.

I give them a little BUZZ...that will show them who is too old... Grin

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Aircraft: FSX Curtiss Jenny

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Too old EH...Humbug... Grin

Next two are Buzzing their Flight Line... Grin

Comments and Advice most welcome... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #1 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 11:10am

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Nice!

But two things you should notice:
1. That Jenny is a carnival livery.
2. A humbug is also a name for a mint-flavored candy! Cheesy

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Reply #2 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 11:28am

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Hi Club508...

Yes we know what Humbugs are, the old girl gets about a pound of those and some Horehound (A candy that is flavoured with an extract of the horehound plant) from a Candy/Chocolate Store that makes their own treats and she picks it up about every month. Wink

The aircraft I used is supposed to be for Barnstorming and not Military Service as the time period of the shot is between 1939 and 1945 during the Second World War. Wink

Thanks for your comments... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 11:39am

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Flying Trucker wrote on Aug 15^th, 2011 at 11:28am:

Hi Club508...

Yes we know what Humbugs are, the old girl gets about a pound of those and some Horehound (A candy that is flavoured with an extract of the horehound plant) from a Candy/Chocolate Store that makes their own treats and she picks it up about every month. Wink

The aircraft I used is supposed to be for Barnstorming and not Military Service as the time period of the shot is between 1939 and 1945 during the Second World War. Wink

Thanks for your comments... Wink

I thought the blue and silver was the barnstorming? The red and black one actually has on it as the decals:

FLYING CIRCUS

FUN FOR ALL AGES

PASSENGER
RIDES

^$

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Reply #4 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 1:15pm

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Hi Club508...

I don't think it matters which one you use for Barnstorming as long as it is not the military one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming

Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus. Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight.[citation needed]

The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on. "Barnstorming season" ran from early spring until after the harvest and county fairs in the fall.

Thanks for the interest and comments... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #5 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 1:34pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Aug 15^th, 2011 at 1:15pm:

Hi Club508...

I don't think it matters which one you use for Barnstorming as long as it is not the military one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming

Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus. Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight.[citation needed]

The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on. "Barnstorming season" ran from early spring until after the harvest and county fairs in the fall.

Thanks for the interest and comments... Wink

Oh! I had been thinking barnstorming was just flying through barns! Thinking that, I had been wondering, "I don't think I'd want to pay a dollar to ride in a rickity old airplane with beak marks and chicken poop all over it"

Thanks! Wink

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Reply #6 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 7:10pm

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Great shots.....neat airplane Cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #7 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 9:06pm

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Thanks Chuck...much appreciated... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #8 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 10:48pm

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Cool shots! Are you in a retro mood these days? Wink

looks to me you've gon back in time recently lol!

-Pierre-

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Reply #9 - Aug 16^th, 2011 at 12:11am

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Very cool Doug.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #10 - Aug 16^th, 2011 at 7:20am

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Goodly morning all... Wink

Hi Pierre...no not living in the past yet... Grin

One has to remember though when I was growing up and doing a little stick and rudder with my dad or grandfather from the homestead biplanes like the DeHavilland Tiger Moth or the Boeing-Stearman were not uncommon sites, were at nearly every bugsmasher field and very much still in use for civilian flight training.

Amphibious Float Planes were usually only seen in military livery but float aircraft flew up and down the rivers to lakes all the time, if you were on the dock and waved they would rock their wings back.

I learned to fly on the Tiger Moth, even sat in several Curtiss Jennies on the ground, Piper Cubs were mostly only yellow also... Grin

and it was normal to see the grass strips being cut with a mower pulled by a team of horses... Grin

There was no smog in the air, you could swim anywhere, no pollution, no Star Trek or very few televisions and it was not uncommon to see young folks or entire families laying on a hill or river bank making things out of clouds... Grin

I never got to fly one of my favourite aircraft, the Royal Aircraft Factory SE5A probably the best fighter according to my grandfather that came out of the First World War.
But I can tell you this...I must have put several hundred hours in a SE5A amongst those clouds... Grin

Take care Pierre... Wink

Thanks Larry...much appreciated... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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