On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:38:25 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote:
>Anything But Wheels
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>By Dave O'Malley
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>Here in Canada, when you meet a pilot who owns his or her own airplane, it won't
>There are not too many countries in this world where this is a relevant question
>Canada as a general aviation pilot, you do a lot of your flying over
>
>To qualify to be saved to the Anything BUT Wheels folder, a photo had to be of a
>military/combat aircraft on floats or skis that was NOT designed from the get go
>as a float plane, flying boat, or bush plane. I started with fighter aircraft,
>but soon branched to military aircraft of all sorts - except purpose-built float
>aircraft. The folder first contained images of Spitfires on floats and P-51
>Mustangs on skis, but soon there were trainers and the odd transport aircraft
>(though these had to be military transports). I wanted to explore the one-offs,
>the failures and the successes, not for any other reason than that it was,
>well... cool....
>
>Full Article with many outstanding pictures:
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>http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx
>
>Or use the shortened URL: http://bit.ly/1yKWA8D
Fascinating article! Thanks for sharing.
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