Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "Bob (not my real pseudonym)" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Subject: Re: Anything But Wheels....
Message-ID: <8bj1ca50ocfk6m2asmlm83qs356420hklc@4ax.com>
References: <j8evbapalfd9lc0ktlhms30g6i8d0vpo8v@4ax.com>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 31
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com
X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:14:39 -0800
X-Received-Body-CRC: 2820066170
X-Received-Bytes: 2431
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.binaries.pictures.aviation:787
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:38:25 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote:
>Anything But Wheels
>
>By Dave O'Malley
>
>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:
>
>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.
|
|