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Offline AirtransRecon

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Quiz for the Fans
« 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
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fireflyr

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #1 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'  |:)\
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Offline AirtransRecon

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #2 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):




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.

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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2006, 05:56:35 PM »
All I can say is you are one very lucky man, and I'm extremely jealous :'(.
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2006, 01:32:56 AM »
Quote from: 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.

Aw heck---FA&A-----CI&A----FB&I----NAS&A----It's a redneck thing (THANG)
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Offline Frank N. O.

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2006, 10:35:28 AM »
LOL, I was wondering what FA&A was too, but now I get it, thanks. Btw, since when is California regarded as a southern state?

And about the plane:  :o ::bow:: ::unbelieveable:: 8) |:)\

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2006, 12:06:20 PM »
Quote from: fireflyr on December 30, 2006, 01:32:56 AM
Quote from: 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.

Aw heck---FA&A-----CI&A----FB&I----NAS&A----It's a redneck thing (THANG)

that means that a & in the middle is added to change the acronym?!?!? But why? is there any reason?!?
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2006, 04:27:00 PM »
Only in the sense that it will change Federal Aviation Administration to Federal Aviation And (&) Administration.  Simple, yet goofy.
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2006, 02:42:38 AM »
Quote from: Panzerrat on December 30, 2006, 04:27:00 PM
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::
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2006, 07:26:47 AM »
Quote from: velojym 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.

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Offline Mike

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2006, 12:05:25 PM »
uhm... the joke also uses some momentum if you have to explain it . . . doesn' t it?!  ::whistle::
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fireflyr

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2006, 07:29:51 PM »
Quote from: Mike on December 31, 2006, 12:05:25 PM
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"
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"He was sweatin' like a queer in a weeny factory"
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"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::
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Offline happylanding

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Re: Quiz for the Fans
« Reply #14 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!!!
:)  ::)

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