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SuperDave wrote:Most asuredly aviation related. Who zit? HINT: killed in a 30's era plane crash.
Good friend of the above also killed in 30'era plane crash:
Wiley Post & Will Rogers
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Aw,Wilf, you scrolled down the Rogers picture. You ain't foolin' me.
Click on the Rogers picture to see the noose around his neck. Rogers was very famous comedian prior to his death in the plane crash.
Click on the Rogers picture to see the noose around his neck. Rogers was very famous comedian prior to his death in the plane crash.
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SuperDave wrote:Aw,Wilf, you scrolled down the Rogers picture. You ain't foolin' me.
Click on the Rogers picture to see the noose around his neck. Rogers was very famous comedian prior to his death in the plane crash.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! Ah Ha!
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Kim wrote:
Why, It's that World-Famous Aviator: Smilin' Jack of course !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Smilin%27_Jack
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SuperDave wrote:Most asuredly aviation related. Who zit? HINT: killed in a 30's era plane crash.
Good friend of the above also killed in 30'era plane crash:
"In 1935 the famed aviator Wiley Post, an Oklahoman, became interested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast to Russia. He attached a Lockheed Explorer wing to a Lockheed Orion fuselage, fitting floats for landing in the lakes of Alaska and Siberia. Rogers visited Post often at the airport in Burbank, California while he was modifying the aircraft, and asked Post to fly him through Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column. When the floats Post had ordered did not arrive at Seattle in time, he used a set that was designed for a larger type, making the already nose-heavy hybrid aircraft still more nose-heavy. However, according to the research of Bryan Sterling, the floats were the correct type for the aircraft
After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left Seattle in the Lockheed Orion-Explorer in early August and then made several stops in Alaska. While Post piloted the aircraft, Rogers wrote his columns on his typewriter. Before they left Fairbanks they signed and mailed a burgee belonging to the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club. The signed burgee is on display at South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, California. On August 15, they left Fairbanks, Alaska for Point Barrow. They were a few miles from Point Barrow when they became uncertain of their position in bad weather and landed in a lagoon to ask directions. On takeoff, the engine failed at low altitude, and the aircraft, uncontrollably nose-heavy at low speed, plunged into the lagoon, shearing off the right wing and ending inverted in the shallow water of the lagoon. Both men died instantly."
Just shows the importance of getting the CG in the right place when you build anything!
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fredvon4 wrote:Twas just keeping with the aviation theme...but your note sparke a question.
What cartoons did UK kids watch in the late 50s early 60s?
Most of the usual Hanna Barbaric stuff
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John Goddard wrote:
THIS one I know! Guy Gibson, of Dam Busters fame!
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Bugger
I meant to say you were disallowed from this Wilf
I meant to say you were disallowed from this Wilf
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Another......
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John Goddard wrote:Bugger
I meant to say you were disallowed from this Wilf
Ah, but you got me on t'others!
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50s TV series with an airplane
Name the show
Hint: Gloria Winters played Penny
Hint: Gloria Winters played Penny
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fredvon4 wrote:Name the show
Hint: Gloria Winters played Penny
Sky King, man am I old. Flew the Songbird.
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Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
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fredvon4 wrote:Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
Youngsters!!! I grew up listening to all the singing cowboys!
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andrew wrote:fredvon4 wrote:Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
Youngsters!!! I grew up listening to all the singing cowboys!
In Morse code!
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Sorry, a little bit to obscure so I will tell. A picture of Paul Mantz. The gentleman who was the chief flight pilot in the filming of the original Flight of the Phoenix. he died during the filming shooting a retake when the phoenix hit a dune, flipping the phoenix.
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crank:
That be "Sky King"! Woo! Woo!
That be "Sky King"! Woo! Woo!
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Ivanhoe wrote:andrew wrote:fredvon4 wrote:Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
Youngsters!!! I grew up listening to all the singing cowboys!
In Morse code!
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Until sometime last year, all the Sky King episodes were available on the web. I have the site bookmarked somewhere. I managed to get about 2/3 of the way through them before they were yanked. What fun! I remember watching them on our Admiral TV.
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andrew wrote:fredvon4 wrote:Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
Youngsters!!! I grew up listening to all the singing cowboys!
You tell em Andrew. Listented on our console Zenith Trans-Oceanic tube radio in my parent's living room were we also caught the WWII war news reported by Edward R. Murrow during the blitz in London.
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andrew wrote:fredvon4 wrote:Yes we are! I grew up watching all the singing cowboys!
Youngsters!!! I grew up listening to all the singing cowboys!
yep, I like both kinds of music...country and western!
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