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Feb 25th 2019, 2:43 pm

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That's nothing compared to Alaska 261. …..

Or JAL 123 …. 32 minutes!

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Feb 25th 2019, 4:05 pm

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Video of the kind of plane I've bought 3/4 finished. This sort of thing encourages me to get on with it....

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Feb 25th 2019, 4:14 pm

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Video of the kind of plane I've bought 3/4 finished. This sort of thing encourages me to get on with it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyAq3tLXlw

I love Samcrac's videos!

I am puzzled as to how he finances what he does, as I assume YouTube isn't paying him enough to buy all the cars he buys, and he swears he isn't just patching up cars to sell.

That said, our next door neighbour was building a plane in his garage, but he moved away before he finished it. He once told me that he "wasn't very handy with tools", so it seems to me that building a plane perhaps wasn't the best hobby choice for him, but then what do I know?

Feb 25th 2019, 4:22 pm

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I would tend to agree, although there is a rigorous and very detailed inspection by the FAA before a kitplane is allowed to fly.

I fixed my link BTW :-)

Feb 27th 2019, 7:37 pm

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Came in today on an emergency (turned out to be nothing). What a machine. 2 of em came in so really
hoping to see them leave in formation.

Feb 28th 2019, 12:19 am

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A couple more of those glorious F/15’s

Feb 28th 2019, 10:40 am

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They're pretty but they're a little 1980s at this point.... most of us don't have cars as old as these fighters

Mar 1st 2019, 1:17 pm

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Not a fan of BOAC. Now if they painted one in Landor.... that's still my favorite and 'cleanest' BA livery.

Looks like you’re in luck

Mar 1st 2019, 2:42 pm

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Looking forward to spotters getting some good snaps of her when she rolls out of the paint shop!

Mar 1st 2019, 3:34 pm

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On the subject of liveries, Brussels Airlines have repainted a subset of their A320s in typical Belgian themes:

One as a tribute to the national football team.

I suppose they had to do this

I've flown on this one

Still looking for 'mayo and frites', haven't found it yet.

Mar 1st 2019, 3:53 pm

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On the subject of liveries, Brussels Airlines have repainted a subset of their A320s in typical Belgian themes:

<Photos snipped>

Still looking for 'mayo and frites', haven't found it yet.

Frites mayonnaises was (were?) my first thought on reading your opening paragraph 😂

Mar 1st 2019, 7:05 pm

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Re: Planespotting II

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Looks like you’re in luck

Nice one!

Mar 1st 2019, 7:11 pm

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Came in today on an emergency (turned out to be nothing). What a machine. 2 of em came in so really
hoping to see them leave in formation.

Were they the Oregon Air National Guard ones. Had 2 flying and one had suspected undercarriage problems the other day. Had to dump $4 million of missiles in the Pacific before attempting to land. Of course the undercarriage worked fine on landing. The OANG fighter wing covers the whole of the west coast.

Mar 6th 2019, 2:14 am

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Re: Planespotting II

The end of the public air show at Farnborough.

Mar 6th 2019, 1:49 pm

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The end of the public air show at Farnborough.

Wow! As someone that spent 5 years living in Farnborough, that’s huge. I know it was primarily a trade show, but the weekend air show bought in some serious numbers, and what was great about farnborough was there was usually a new passenger jet of some sort doing stuff. Seeing the 380 do its display was still amazing as it seemed to defy physics.
The other shock from that is the limitations that have been put in place since shorham. If the Red Arrows really are limited to just flyoasts over land, how much longer will they keep going?