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Read it and weep Bar, read it and weep.

buzzpat

08-25-2012 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1251475)

That has to be my favorite Thomas Kincaid painting.

He's dead, you know. Too much shiny ****. How dare you? Too soon....

forgot to bid

08-25-2012 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1251482)

you should see it at his shop down in Savanna. The light really brings out the reflection of the mountains in the rooster tails.

How come the rooster tails touch? Like V-shaped?

I mean I get the rooster tails happening, but were like the engines on the F-16 pointed at each other to give it that effect? Seems odd.

I don't think Bob Ross would've done that. He was Air Force. He'd known.

acl65pilot

08-25-2012 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1251473)

The whole Apolo program is what inspired many of us to get into flying in the first place and was a big part of our motivation to get through grade school, high school, college and join the military, chasing the dream.

Wouldn't it be great if 50,000 pilots showed up, in uniform, at his funeral?

Any word on where/when it is?

What an awesome idea.

Our kids need these types of heros.

Bucking Bar

08-25-2012 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1251480)

I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.

Ben Rich, in his book about running Skunkworks for Lockheed said after Jimmy Carter was briefed in on stealth he realized the B-1 was already obsolete. Reagan made Carter look soft for cancelling the B-1. However the real difference was that Carter had a Top Secret clearance and Reagan did not. Carter could not talk about the future he knew was coming.

Boomer

08-25-2012 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1251480)

and I heard it was the only airplane in the inventory -not- to fly in Desert Storm.

I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.

The B-1 was on Nuke alert and the Navy couldn't spare them for conventional bombing in 1991. CCCP and all that.

BTW, Carter cancelling the Bone taught me my first lesson in political parties.

buzzpat

08-25-2012 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1251474)

I'd never call an Air Force guy a liar. This is what happens next...

Buzz Aldrin Punch - YouTube

I actually met Buzz Aldrin a few years ago on the set of Fox & Friends. I was honored and told him so. He wasn't very "chatty." I wasn't very "chatty" either as it was 7 AM ET and I was on 4 AM PT. Kind of like me when I'm landing at MCO at 4 AM PT. Not very chatty.

forgot to bid

08-25-2012 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1251491)

I'm always chatty. You should've met me instead. I'd be chatty.

But that'd be neat to meet Buzz Aldrin.

Or Newk. Or Buzzpat. Or BuckingBar. Or Boomer. Or Timbo. Or 80ktsclevage. Or ACL. Or... this might go on a long long while.

And I'd like to see a Navy B-1.

http://www.planephotography.co.uk/im...llonF16S_1.jpg

Bucking Bar

08-25-2012 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1251487)

What an awesome idea.

Our kids need these types of heros.

Since he wrote "Apolo" instead of Apollo, I thought he was referring to Dancing With the Stars.

My favorite Armstrong moment was Gemini 8 when after docking they realized their capsule was out of control and running low (<30%) on fuel. Armstrong manually flew the thing out of orbit and put it in the thing in the alternate ocean.

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