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[Stealth57]

whoa!……we should all go in….
For Sale: A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Project Plane: $9 Million USD

Any pilots here?

 

[GBassNorth]

Any pilots here?

Before you get a pilot you might want to locate a team of licensed aircraft mechanics, a shop and assembly area. I’d guess millions of bucks to assemble it to code and rent a hanger big enough to assemble it in. If money were no object it sure would be a fun project though.

 

[dagrev]

IIRC (and @Chucky Stiletti may know much better than I) the Ampeg Scrambler circuit is different from other O/D circuits in that it is neither a tube screamer type soft clipper nor a rat style hard clipper. As I recall, it does some strange asymmetric clipping. Different from any other circuit I had seen when I went looking.

It's a distortion I could use--and one people listening would likely never notice. Sounded better than my SansAmp VT when getting into the distorted area. It's not bad, but nothing I wanted to use. The Ampeg was more subtle, I guess you could say.

 

[Stealth57]

Before you get a pilot you might want to locate a team of licensed aircraft mechanics, a shop and assembly area. I’d guess millions of bucks to assemble it to code and rent a hanger big enough to assemble it in. If money were no object it sure would be a fun project though.

I’d suggest a few bombing targets but I’d likely get suspended for political commentary.

 

[Engle]

It's the crabs you have to worry about. It's always the crabs....

 

[TBird1958]

whoa!……we should all go in….
For Sale: A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Project Plane: $9 Million USD

Wow, I had no idea one of those even existed at this point. A true, extremely rare B-17. Needs a museum!

BTW none of the 5 flyable '17s actually saw combat.

 

[Engle]

Only one aspect.

Many years ago when I got my driver's license, the road test was about 25 minutes (appointments booked on the hour and half hour). When I lived in California, I had to do a road test for a Ca lic. and it was once around the block - about 5 minutes. I asked why I was getting off easy and was told that that is the standard road test everyone gets. More recently, inquiring about the Ontario test, it too is about 5 minutes. So lower the standards and you get worse drivers; who could have predicted that??

They have made it much more difficult here, including multiple stages of licenses, rules about passengers for new drivers etc.

 

[PillO]

Before you get a pilot you might want to locate a team of licensed aircraft mechanics, a shop and assembly area. I’d guess millions of bucks to assemble it to code and rent a hanger big enough to assemble it in. If money were no object it sure would be a fun project though.

It might be simpler to steal a fully serviceable aircraft. I DO NOT RECOMMEND STEALING AN AIRCRAFT. Just thinking that it is probably easier.

 

[Stealth57]

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Krabby Patty please.

 

[JJR58]

Before you get a pilot you might want to locate a team of licensed aircraft mechanics, a shop and assembly area. I’d guess millions of bucks to assemble it to code and rent a hanger big enough to assemble it in. If money were no object it sure would be a fun project though.

As my brother used to say…..

“Anything is possible”

 

[PillO]

They have made it much more difficult here, including multiple stages of licenses, rules about passengers for new drivers etc.

I have some opinions on that...

Graduated licenses are probably a marginally useful idea, but the road test needs to cover sufficient driving skills and needs suitable standards to keep poor drivers off the road.

And if we are thinking about teens, by far the greatest risk is using alcohol then driving. It might be sensible to move the legal drinking age to 16 and the driving age to 18/19/21 so that teens get familiar with impairment effects before they start driving.

 

[JJR58]

Random Bird pic.

 

[KaraQ]

darn…friggin’ 107 deg today….
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You win.
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[PillO]

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Your John Paul Jones is upside down...

 

[PaleAngel_90]

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That looks nice. Would look better in black and gold. Is that your screensaver? Mine is this:

 

[KaraQ]

That looks nice. Would look better in black and gold. Is that your screensaver? Mine is this:

Phone background/theme

 

[Stealth57]

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Take that

 

[MCF]

And that offset set screw proves that it's an early reissue. I don't recall what the tuners were, but they didn't have an inline set screw like the recent ones do. That's how the Flamingo is, so more holes drilled. I didn't put the old screw back in the hole. Just left the hole empty.

But it’s on the (long) to do list. Right? So maybe by 2032? Don’t want to put any undue stress on you.

 

[MCF]

Eastwood also does an Ovation Magnum Bass replica, though I find it a bit overpriced.

I like it.

 

[PaleAngel_90]

I like it.

Would look better with the Ovation headstock.