Warbird Information Exchange

I know you like to carry a bunch of stuff under the wings of your AD-5.
But this is a whole different kettle of fish.................

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Don't touch my junk!!

he could ask those quaker girls he met at the airshow a while back...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Is that a Porterfield?

Gary

not very politically correct to refer to those young ladies as "fish"

You know, you hardly ever see any Skyraider wing walking acts.....

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Eric

"I spent most of my money on alcohol, women and skyraiders....and the rest of it I just wasted."

Hard to stand on those wings with all that uncontained oil !

Hard to stand on the oily wing while its at rest; harder still in fllight

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I smell photoshop.

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Not Photoshop......Believe it or not there was a time when computers didn't exist. I know hard to believe.

That movie still depicts a classic rear projection special effect. The plane is quite grounded on a soundstage. Notice the landing gear is a little fuzzy. Had to edit out the floor or scaffold that is supporting the plane. Quite an advanced special effect for the time.


Patrick Mahaffey
B-17G "Chuckie" pilot/mechanic
B-25 "Pacific Prowler" crew.

The girl second from the left isn't getting good arm extention
and therefore isn't worthy. The other 4 should toss her *ss off

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you're being insensitive. she's an amputee.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

That's most likely a publicity photo or a still capture from the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Well Eric, if you want, we could try a Skyraider wing walking act. I've got some past experience in that field.

Sorry for the out of focus pictures.......










Gary

PS Yes, I know this stunt of mine (done many years ago) was incredibly stupid and that I should not have been wearing a parachute (perhaps just a lanyard would've been better), as they have a tendency to deploy inadvertantly, which will subsequently drag you through the tail. I found out about a crop duster in Arkansas that had that very thing happen to him after I did my own wing walking. I do not recommend anyone being as stupid as I was (or am).

I guess there's more than a few youngsters here who've never know
life without a computer. Ah the good old days 8-tracks, B&W TV with
only 4 stations because there's NO cable and no such thing has a happy meal. Burgers at the drive in were 19 cents larger than a quarter.

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And we had a load of rotten fish dumped on our heads every moring, and then we walked to shcool for a mile through six feet of snow, and when we got home we warmed up by running down a mine shaft to collect the coal for the stove...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."