Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

Indeed! and a very loud plane as well, it'd good to be some distance away when one is started up.

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Many B25 pilots said "HUH?" a lot after the war.

 

[GonePlaid]

Saw a really nice ebony Thunderbird today. I had no control over the lighting. Inside parking garage.

 

[JIO]

Many B25 pilots said "HUH?" a lot after the war.

explain...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

This is what my dad piloted in the South Pacific. B25 medium range bomber (not his plane - but this is his squadron) Pretty badàss if I say so myself... they were know for precision bombing supply route bridges in Burma.

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Catch-22

 

[JIO]

Catch-22

I saw it in the movie theater when new and remember the scene that Art Garfunkel gets shot while in the pilot's-chair but didn't realize it was a B-52! I'm watching it now!

 

[GonePlaid]

explain...

The ROOAAR of those Wrights f---ed* up their hearing.


*oul

 

[Miles_ONeal]

my brother, sister and I would jump on a PanAm 707 in summer to go visit my grandparents in Sicily every year….the on board entertainment as this cheesy music tape loop that you listened to via these cheap headphones that were just tubes bussing the audio from the arm rest speakers…to boot, this is pre turbofans….those turbojets were SO LOUD…….heck who am i to complain…russians converted the TU-95 as airliners……gnarliest, loudest turboprop EVER imho….the prop arc diameter is twice that of the fuselage……

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Ha ha! I remember the tubephones!
Hadn’t realized they converted the Tupelovs. So much weird stuff came out of the Cold War.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

…and the string spacing looks huge as well.

Too many strings. I’m happy with four.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have flown many many times. In my experience I love Alaska Airlines. I have more leg room on their planes more than amy other airline. I don’t know the measurements but I know when my knees are getting crushed on other planes.

Alaskan is great. But then, most of their commercial flights are international.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Thunderbird 4

Children's program from the 60s. Done in Supermarionation. Came from the same studio that brought us Captain Scarlett.

Never heard of Captain Scarlett. Heard of the Thunderbirds but never saw that program. I did watch Fireball XL5. I think it was Claymation. EDIT: Supermarionation it is!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I cannot tell you how excited I was to find a theme song web sire in the mid-90s with tFireball XL5 on it! Or how perturbed I was when it disappeared. The web was much leaner then.
I remember singing that song to my girlfriend in 4th grade. That got a big grin.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

This is what my dad piloted in the South Pacific. B25 medium range bomber (not his plane - but this is his squadron) Pretty badàss if I say so myself... they were know for precision bombing supply route bridges in Burma.

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Mitchells were awesome. They were also known for their bombing of Tokyo, thanks to James Doolittle’s book (and the movie, which somehow I have not seen) “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I saw it in the movie theater when new and remember the scene that Art Garfunkel gets shot while in the pilot's-chair but didn't realize it was a B-52! I'm watching it now!

Bwahahahaha! B-52!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Bwahahahaha! B-52!

be nice!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Mitchells were awesome. They were also known for their bombing of Tokyo, thanks to James Doolittle’s book (and the movie, which somehow I have not seen) “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.

gotta love North American….aside from building some of the coolest frames (25, 51, 86 to name a few) they honor the very unfairly treated (for being right) Billy Mitchell with one of the most successful bombers of all times…..

 

[GBassNorth]

This is what my dad piloted in the South Pacific. B25 medium range bomber (not his plane - but this is his squadron) Pretty badàss if I say so myself... they were know for precision bombing supply route bridges in Burma.

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Kinda dwarfed by the B52, but still a pretty cool (heavily armed) light bomber…

…been in this one several times but not up in the air.

 

[JIO]

Bwahahahaha! B-52!

spellcheck... or dyslexia - every artist suffers from it

 

[JIO]

Bwahahahaha! B-52!

my dad - top row far left ... Captain Edmund Leo Kitta of a B-25 - they erroneously added an 's' to his name in this book covering "The Burma Bridge Busters" -

 

[JIO]

Mitchells were awesome. They were also known for their bombing of Tokyo, thanks to James Doolittle’s book (and the movie, which somehow I have not seen) “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.

one of my dads favorite movies

 

[JIO]

The ROOAAR of those Wrights f---ed* up their hearing.


*oul

I don't recall my dad having hearing issues, but I believe you that they were loud.