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Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:26 am

Welcome aboard P.B.! Hope you find out what your mystery aircraft is. The way you described it I think it may have been a Piaggio P.180 Avanti. :?
Robbie

Yeah, sounds like a Piaggio.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:25 am

The Piaggio sounds like one of those RC aircraft... but louder.
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You can always hear them coming and going... very strange sound.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:52 pm

No it was a single engine for sure. And I know I heard a piston engine. Thanks anyway.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:08 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:Your on WIX, there are alot of operators, restorers, maintainers, pack rats, and historical experts on here, believe me, they would know what you are talking about.
I just wanted to make sure you were not a mall ninja.


what the heck is a mall ninja?

Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:21 pm

Speaking of flying over, the Collings B-24 made a pass over Six Flags Great America just as I was arriving at work. I so wanted to be up there flying in the Liberator. Maybe next time.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:39 pm

muddyboots wrote:
Matt Gunsch wrote:Your on WIX, there are alot of operators, restorers, maintainers, pack rats, and historical experts on here, believe me, they would know what you are talking about.
I just wanted to make sure you were not a mall ninja.


what the heck is a mall ninja?


A mall ninja is someone who is talks like he knows everything, but the more he talks, the more it shows he knows nothing, and he is to dumb to know it.

http://www.uzitalk.com/forums/showthrea ... mall+ninja

????

Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:43 pm

I always thought "hoo Haa" referred to something in your southern hemisphere :shock:

Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:44 pm

*raises hand guiltily*

Actually, I' am more than happy to admit I know squat about aircraft of almost any type. Except the ones you step out the back door of :D

Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:02 am

muddyboots wrote:*raises hand guiltily*

Actually, I' am more than happy to admit I know squat about aircraft of almost any type. Except the ones you step out the back door of :D


Muddy, Muddy, Muddy, why would you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? 8) Some greater good, perhaps? 8)

Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:58 am

sdennison wrote: Some greater good, perhaps? 8)

Amen!..Bless the Grunts.. :wink:

Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:20 am

sdennison wrote:
muddyboots wrote:*raises hand guiltily*

Actually, I' am more than happy to admit I know squat about aircraft of almost any type. Except the ones you step out the back door of :D


Muddy, Muddy, Muddy, why would you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? 8) Some greater good, perhaps? 8)


I always thought of it as escaping an out of control vehicle which was being propelled through space and time by it's own insane, misbegotten belief that it's movements through the air were anything but random...You mean there was a PURPOSE in all that grinding and bouncing and bucking and general mayhem? The guys up front must have known more than me :P

Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:56 am

The folks at the sky diving facility in San Marcos, TX have a sign over their door that proclaims "there is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane!".

Re: ????

Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:51 am

Jack Cook wrote:I always thought "hoo Haa" referred to something in your southern hemisphere :shock:


If one flew over your house, that would really be something to see.

Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:17 pm

great clips of the 109's!!! man, are those things ever unstable on the takeoffs!! i'm surprised that they ever got off the ground having to lug the pilots balls around. :lol:

Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:51 am

muddyboots wrote:
Matt Gunsch wrote:Your on WIX, there are alot of operators, restorers, maintainers, pack rats, and historical experts on here, believe me, they would know what you are talking about.
I just wanted to make sure you were not a mall ninja.


what the heck is a mall ninja?

Here is the TRUE story of the Mall Ninja, the first one I posted had a busted link. If you want a good laugh, read on, and just remember, this guy is serious about what he is saying. now for the true story of the mall ninja, click here: http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
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