Posts by sizemik

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How are our friends in ChristChurch?

by tenyearsafter in

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friends

sizemik

Funny what changed circumstances, stress, weird happenings, and a forced decision will do to some people's thinking Black Sheep. When I get a few more family members to actually reason and stop tossing pennies in the wishing well . . . then it will happen.

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Famous B-17 Liberty Belle crashed this morning in Illinois

by james_woods in

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/b-17-bomber-crashes-in-il_n_876008.html.

this plane was one of the few flying fortresses still in operating order and was scheduled for an airshow next weekend.. pilot reported a fire on board, could not make it back to the field, and had to put it down in a cornfield.

all 7 persons on board escaped, but the aircraft is a total loss..

sizemik

Liberty Belle . . . in all her glory

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The next time a JW tries to tell you that natural disasters are a sign of the end...

by JimmyPage in

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... tell them to check this out:.

from weather.com, the 10 biggest natural disasters, 8 of which occurred before 1914:.

great hurricane of 1780 (barbados, st. lucia, 22,000 dead).

sizemik

On a human scale these occurrences have been devastating because humanity has populated these areas, where before there was very little .

In about the 1st or 2nd century AD . . . The Lake Taupo caldera here in central NI New Zealand erupted. It is still the greatest release of energy visited upon the planet in the last 5000 years. Pyroclastic flows over 1 mile high flowed at over 200 mph in every direction and reached the coast at several points. There was no human habitation here at all . . . so nobody got to see it. Imagine if something similar occurred today?

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AMAZING VIDEO - Bye, Bye Miss American Pie

by BizzyBee in

evidently, this video was shot without any camera interruptions or breaks ... classic audio.

this video has gone viral on the net ... over one million views.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjjzco67wi&feature=player_embedded> .

sizemik

Awesome! . . . love it.

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Famous B-17 Liberty Belle crashed this morning in Illinois

by james_woods in

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/b-17-bomber-crashes-in-il_n_876008.html.

this plane was one of the few flying fortresses still in operating order and was scheduled for an airshow next weekend.. pilot reported a fire on board, could not make it back to the field, and had to put it down in a cornfield.

all 7 persons on board escaped, but the aircraft is a total loss..

sizemik

F-4 Phantom. (See my avatar).

Vietnam era fighter.

Hubert

Hubert . . . we are very proud owners down here in NZ of our 1956 NA T-28C c/n 226-140, ex N583GH It's now operated by a Warbirds Association syndicate as ZK-JGS. The aircraft is operated in a USN trainer scheme of VA122 with the original Bu.No.140563.

A T-28 Trojan in US Navy colours zooms over the crowd. The aircraft, designed to replace the Harvard, was used in post WW2 training and counter insurgency missions. OH 08-0166-46.jpg. Photo courtesy AC Craig Olsen.

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Famous B-17 Liberty Belle crashed this morning in Illinois

by james_woods in

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/b-17-bomber-crashes-in-il_n_876008.html.

this plane was one of the few flying fortresses still in operating order and was scheduled for an airshow next weekend.. pilot reported a fire on board, could not make it back to the field, and had to put it down in a cornfield.

all 7 persons on board escaped, but the aircraft is a total loss..

sizemik

Thanks for posting the article james . . . I've been looking for an article on this since a short news article appeared on national telly here last night. As a pilot with an aviation mad son . . . this is a sad loss. My son knows the names of just about every WW2 veteran still flying (no kidding). He knows this aircraft and has shown me pictures of it from his collection.

New Zealand has a large classic aircraft following inspired by Sir Tim Wallis, and the avid interest of the film producer Sir Peter Jackson. An irrecoverable loss like this is felt by all classic enthusiasts.

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