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MillionDollar Belt Sander:
Another P-61 fan. Fantastic. Very underrated plane.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 10 May 2013, 00:59 ---Before I learned how to play an instrument, I was obsessed with airplanes. I spent every minute of my free time listening to music and reading airplane books. My best days were spent at airshows, talking to all the old pilot vets and sponging up as much info as possible. I played flight sim games on the computer, had box sets of WWII gun camera footage, watched Black Sheep Squadron on History Channel all the time, built plastic models, everything. My favorite airplanes are the North American P-82 and the Northrop P-61A (the P-61B was stupid, how you gonna delete the turret that made the Black Widow so badass in the first place?). My grandpa was the RO in a P-61 on Guadalcanal.
Obsessed, dude.
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Patrick makes a point for me that I was thinking about in the transhumanist thread about memorising information. There's enough accumulated knowledge in that paragraph to supply a lifetime around aircraft; it's with our hobbies and obsessions that we fill our memories now, rather than practical information to get on with life. Had Patrick gone into aeronautical engineering, all this would be supplemented with even more real-world experience, and may have even been "practical" knowledge. But the brain fills with what's important to you, and the average person is no longer trying to understand why last years crops didn't do so well (unless you're a farmer, or a garden hobbyist).
We don't memorize less - it's the things we commit to memory that have changed.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 10 May 2013, 00:59 ---Before I learned how to play an instrument, I was obsessed with airplanes. I spent every minute of my free time listening to music and reading airplane books. My best days were spent at airshows, talking to all the old pilot vets and sponging up as much info as possible. I played flight sim games on the computer, had box sets of WWII gun camera footage, watched Black Sheep Squadron on History Channel all the time, built plastic models, everything. My favorite airplanes are the North American P-82 and the Northrop P-61A (the P-61B was stupid, how you gonna delete the turret that made the Black Widow so badass in the first place?). My grandpa was the RO in a P-61 on Guadalcanal.
Obsessed, dude.
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Neat obsession!
I'd forgotten about those aircraft. I think I confused the P-38 with the P-61 and P-82.
Do you have any interest in the B-26? My stepfather wrote a book, Flak Bait, about the design, production and deployment of that bomber.
Patrick:
The Martin Marauder? Yeah, I'm sorta familiar. Twin engine medium bomber, not terribly fast but from what I understand they were used fairly extensively in North Africa and the Med. I built a snap-tite model of one in grade school. I'm pretty sure my dad has a copy of that book, actually, I'll have to ask him though.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 01 Jan 2013, 14:06 ---We are a LONG WAY (20 years) off from being able to print out cups/plates/forks/entire toys at the push of a button.
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YMMV on that.
4 of these aircraft (and the observation balloon) are styrene - the rest, 3D prints.
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