Roost Air Lounge => Aviation related topics => Topic started by: AirtransRecon on December 28, 2006, 02:22:54 AM
Title: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: AirtransRecon on December 28, 2006, 02:22:54 AM
Tell me what Aircraft is attached to this Tail Number and I'll tell you exactly how I know her from the inside out.
17630
KW
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on December 28, 2006, 02:47:48 AM
According to the FA&A records it's a 1941 Lockheed p38F owned by the lost squadron museum-----me thinks that would 'Glacier Girl' |:)\
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: AirtransRecon on December 28, 2006, 02:25:49 PM
Fireflyr is spot on. I literraly grew up with this beautifull machine, dad was the project electrician. Got to see the entire rebuild from arrival, tear down, repairs, refab, engines, props, paint, and the first flight. As I got older and before she flew I used to hop around the big air shows with the display team as well as get some hands on work time with the restoration team durring the summers. Its one thing to see these amazing machines at shows, it's a whole other feeling entirely to get to work with/on one.
A few pics for the board (sory if these are too large): (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Gen4lude/DSCF4200.jpg) (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Gen4lude/DSCF4203.jpg) (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Gen4lude/DSCF4208.jpg)
These were taken at Nashville, I thini. I've got alot more taken from open houses in Middlesbourgh (home for Glacier Girl) and the first flight but alot of those are all on film. Gotta get them scanned in some day.
KW
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: chuckar101 on December 29, 2006, 05:56:35 PM
All I can say is you are one very lucky man, and I'm extremely jealous :'(.
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: Zaffex on December 29, 2006, 10:00:29 PM
Beautiful, simply beautiful. Looks like it would be a blast to fly!
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According to the FA&A records...
FA&A?? ??? I'm afraid to ask what that stands for.
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on December 30, 2006, 01:32:56 AM
Only in the sense that it will change Federal Aviation Administration to Federal Aviation And (&) Administration. Simple, yet goofy.
I was making southern redneck humor, mocking the slang words attributed to American southerners---just humor but the humor gets lost in the written translation---sorry ::sleep::
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: spacer on December 31, 2006, 03:27:08 AM
Hehe... when I drove trucks, I stopped at TA truckstops quite a bit. My ol' man calls 'em T&A. I stopped correcting him eventually, I guess he just likes being a dirty ol' man.
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on December 31, 2006, 07:26:47 AM
Hehe... when I drove trucks, I stopped at TA truckstops quite a bit. My ol' man calls 'em T&A. I stopped correcting him eventually, I guess he just likes being a dirty ol' man.
uhm... the joke also uses some momentum if you have to explain it . . . doesn' t it?! ::whistle::
I hate when that happens :-[ There's some funny redneck humor out there though, like;
"she was as nervous as a long-tail cat in a room full of rockers" or "He was sweatin' like a queer in a weeny factory" or "she was uglier than a mud fence" or "he was dumber than a box of dirt"
Odd but rather pictorial humor---I love it |:)\ ::bow::
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: happylanding on December 31, 2006, 08:30:03 PM
Well, Fireflyr, I will remember, next time, that you add an & inside the acronyms so that no explanation will be needed!!! :) ::)
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on December 31, 2006, 09:24:07 PM
Well what do we speak then, cause I sure can't figure it out. I still here accents that sound like a completely different language.
Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else ;D ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages ::drinking::
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: Frank N. O. on January 06, 2007, 08:30:11 PM
Just trying to clear up the impression that Americans speak the king's English---ain't so ::cowboy::
I thought it was the Queen's English or did I miss something in the news?
I probably also speak more american than english since most of the movies I watched (which is how I learned to speak the language since I was barely in school at that age) were US and not english.
Frank
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on January 06, 2007, 08:54:25 PM
Just trying to clear up the impression that Americans speak the king's English---ain't so ::cowboy::
I thought it was the Queen's English or did I miss something in the news?
I probably also speak more american than english since most of the movies I watched (which is how I learned to speak the language since I was barely in school at that age) were US and not english.
Frank
Well Gee Whiz Frank, Yer pinnin' me down on a technicality---Ah don' thank that ole Queen Lisibeth or even ole Victoria invented this here way ta speek--Ah thank it wuz some Kang way back yonder in history >:D .....B'sides that, I think ole Winston Churchill said the British and Americans was two people separated by a common language ;)
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: chuckar101 on January 06, 2007, 10:27:26 PM
Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages
I think the alcoholic beverages started most of them.
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: happylanding on January 06, 2007, 10:46:34 PM
Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages
I think the alcoholic beverages started most of them.
it seems to me the same situation that switzerland. apart from the fact that we have four national languages, one of them is swytzerdutsch and it is actually a non existant language, but an huge number of dialects with different expressions and words from a region to another. and the cause? probably the higly alcoholic kirsch found in the typically swiss dish: the fondue! :D
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: Baradium on January 07, 2007, 03:32:35 AM
A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from... "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant! I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"
We also like saying "thingy" example: "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."
Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit" ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it" Example: "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."
BTW, I still can't get my truck started...
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: happylanding on January 07, 2007, 09:45:54 AM
A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from... "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant! I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"
We also like saying "thingy" example: "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."
Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit" ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it" Example: "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."
BTW, I still can't get my truck started...
what does over yonder mean then? could not catch the sense from your message. and what happened to your truck?
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on January 07, 2007, 03:43:48 PM
A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from... "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant! I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"
We also like saying "thingy" example: "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."
Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit" ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it" Example: "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."
BTW, I still can't get my truck started...
what does over yonder mean then? could not catch the sense from your message. and what happened to your truck?
Yonder is an dialectical expression indicating a general direction to a destination or an object, generally but not required, to be within eyesight . The expression comes from the archaic "yon". Does that help?
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: undatc on January 07, 2007, 07:24:54 PM
A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from... "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant! I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"
We also like saying "thingy" example: "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."
Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit" ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it" Example: "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."
BTW, I still can't get my truck started...
I think you made younder sound much more.... distinguished than it deserves.
Here isa god amongst men, when it comes to our..... Southern speak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilnJYoCzCVw
Git R Dun!
what does over yonder mean then? could not catch the sense from your message. and what happened to your truck?
Yonder is an dialectical expression indicating a general direction to a destination or an object, generally but not required, to be within eyesight . The expression comes from the archaic "yon". Does that help?
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: happylanding on January 07, 2007, 09:42:02 PM
sure it helps fiteflyr, thank you! it's amazing how many idioms I'm learning inside the forum! |:)\ :)
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: Baradium on January 08, 2007, 10:24:47 AM
Yonder is an dialectical expression indicating a general direction to a destination or an object, generally but not required, to be within eyesight . The expression comes from the archaic "yon". Does that help?
Hahaha, it's more specific than that IMO. It's something that isn't very close by but isn't very far away. Generally, it'll be more than 100 yards away and less than a mile. But scale matters, as well as the subject matter at hand, so the distances can change. This is also when being in eyesight can change it. Generally it has to be far enough to not be considered nearby, but close enough that you can see it.
Basically it's like saying "over there." There are two more words that can be used when an object is either close by (closer than yonder) or father away (than yonder), but I can't think of which two those are at the moment. Even better is that "over yonder" is apparently correct English even. ;)
As far as my truck... apparently it doesn't like starting after spending a day and a half at -40 degrees. And that's even with it plugged in!
I ended up getting it going today, this was day three of trying to start it. Finally broke down and put one of those jet type heates under it... started up like a warm summer day after that. ;)
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: FlyboyGil on January 12, 2007, 03:32:09 PM
I love Garfield
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: fireflyr on January 12, 2007, 04:12:25 PM
YAY ::bow:: Garfield's a redneck ::rofl::
Title: Re: Quiz for the Fans
Post by: Panzerrat on January 14, 2007, 07:07:24 PM
I see all these references regarding the "Queen's English". Never lose track of this (as far as Americans go). She's not our queen.
