[Roadsters] OT: vintage pics for aircraft buffs

[RWM]

There is an A-12 on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid -- which NYC hopes 
to get back in a year or so after it is refitted.

Not sure where it originated or its planned route of flight, but late 
Monday afternoon we had a B-17 at about 5,000 feet and climbing out over 
Oyster Bay/Long Island Sound headed roughly north-west. No red fin, so 
it wasn't the Collings airplane "909".  Can't mistake the sound of those 
radials at high power.

 

stl at adnc.com wrote:

>Gordon,
>
>There is a Blackbird at the entrance of the San Diego Air and Space  
>Museum in Balboa Park next to a Sea Dart, of all things.  Quite a  
>contrast of technologies.  The Blackbird looks wicked indeed.
>
>It is saying something that P-38's still capture the imagination long  
>after the advent of jets and moon walks.
>
>Steve Landuyt
>'69 2000
>
>
>
>Quoting Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow at comcast.net>:
>
>  
>
>>Very nice! I love the P-38s.
>>
>>BTW, anyone who makes it to Seattle should visit the Museum of Flight
>>(www.museumofflight.org). They've got a huge collection of planes (here's
>>the list: http://www.museumofflight.org/Display.asp?Page=airspace).
>>
>>And it's the only place I know of where you can walk around a Blackbird. For
>>a plane that doesn't even have weapons, it just looks wicked!
>>
>>Gordon Glasgow