a japanese junkyard
Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:04 pm
Ive been gone for a while, if lightning strikes your house it makes a mess...
Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:42 pm
that looks like my model collection after the movers got done with it..................
Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:31 pm
Courtesy of your local Seabee Valet Services! Let us park your planes!
Bettys's burn the best!
Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:27 pm
My father in law was a Seabee in the Pacific building the Tinian runways. I asked about his experiences with Japanese aircraft.
When he was on the island of Japan he ran a dozer to push all the planes together for destruction. He commented he liked the Betty bombers as they went up like matchsticks. In fact, he liked to start his pile of planes to burn with a Betty...sort of like one of those lighter logs you use in the fireplace!
When he was on the island of Japan he ran a dozer to push all the planes together for destruction. He commented he liked the Betty bombers as they went up like matchsticks. In fact, he liked to start his pile of planes to burn with a Betty...sort of like one of those lighter logs you use in the fireplace!
Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:53 pm
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:00 pm
Wow, now thats a bonfire!!! Cant see there being much left after the flames died down, except maybe some big puddles of aluminium!!
Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:43 pm
Oh, so that's how you heat treat aluminum! 
I thought it was a more exact sort of process! 
I thought it was a more exact sort of process!
Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:05 pm
Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.
Gary
Gary
Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:27 am
Enemy completely down... and war is ended!
Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:45 am
retroaviation wrote:Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.
Gary
No kidding!
Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:20 pm
Django wrote:retroaviation wrote:Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.
Gary
No kidding!
Second that
armyjunk2 wrote:Ive been gone for a while, if lightning strikes your house it makes a mess...
Yikes! Everybody OK?
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:00 pm
The lightning strike took out 3 telephones, 1 modem, 1 scanner, 3 outside security lights, 8 light bulbs, 2 electrical switches (blew one out of the wall), the house security system, some of the house wiring and my Sony TV. but no one was hurt and my house didn't burn down, so it wasn't bad......total was just less than my $1000 insurance deductable....thanks for asking
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:04 pm
Yikes!
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:49 pm
That is NO FUN, and it's not just the equipment lost, the data/pics lost on them can often be unrecoverable depending on how fried they are. Insurance doesn't cover that! 
Back up, back up, back up!!! On to a unplugged drive in a firesafe!
Back up, back up, back up!!! On to a unplugged drive in a firesafe!