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Carl-E:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 01 Jun 2013, 00:09 ---The poster is an original from 1915, and worth a fair bit (4 figures). Picked up at a school fete for $5.
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I recognized it from just the corner in the first photo - I had a copy hung over my bed as a lad.
I think I found something for my long term goals (bucket) list. I want to fly something pre-WWII. Wood, fabric, wire, oil and ... maybe a little prayer.
bhtooefr:
Not actually flying it, and it's not actually pre-WW2, let alone pre-WW1 (being a replica, with a modern Lycoming engine and ailerons) but being a passenger aboard it it:
http://www.wright-b-flyer.org/
Caspian Sea Monster:
If I could afford to see the project through to completion, I would be outside right now running spruce through the bandsaw, making wing ribs for a biplane. Not that big into building something faithfully old school though; more interested in something kind of like a Daisy Mae biplane, but single-place and around a water-cooled inline-6 (based around a Maserati A6GSC alloy block dry-sump model and dual-ignition header, converted into an aero engine proper with twin magnetos, centrifugal supercharger and intercooler, and a Bendix pressure carb; it's like a miniature half-Merlin! Lycoming opposed engines are boring.) Doing so is well within my skill, not so much within my wallet. Never mind that I can't afford to finish my flight training either (my dad is a pilot and payed for me to take lessons when I was a teen, both fixed-wing and rotary - Luscombe 8A and Schweizer 300CB respectively - but stopped due to the cost. I haven't been flying in over a decade. :cry: I am resigned to dicking around in DCS: Warthog and picking my friend's (a flight instructor at WMU) brain for advice.)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 02 Jun 2013, 20:14 ---I think I found something for my long term goals (bucket) list. I want to fly something pre-WWII. Wood, fabric, wire, oil and ... maybe a little prayer.
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New Zealand. It's not just for Hobbits.|
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4uzJuHG6jM
ZoeB:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySQfczcopI
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