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Cool photo, Kingpin, but that towbar looks like a real pain to handle.
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It's easy when you have that calibrated length 2x4 propping it up...
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That is one good-lookin bird!

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Unless you've got one of Nelson's little tow bar attachments bolted to the main gear of a Sea Fury, they really are a pain in the patooty to hook a towbar to.

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That was taken in Kenosha this summer right before new owner came to pick it up.. Provenance now has it for sale.. Awesome plane

Happy Holidays to all...

I am headed south to Florida for the holidays...

Fantasy of Flight here I come...

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in response to daveymac82c: i took the picture in oshkosh. not sure where the plane is from. it's pretty though!

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tell me a little about the Expeditor you're in front of in that picture? Whose plane is it and where's it located?

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Daveymac, the Expeditor is owned by a guy in Calgary who operates a corporate jet charter company. I got the chance to fly in that airplane at the Lethbridge air show in 2003. It is an amazing example of restoration, everything on that airplane is 100% in original configuration right down to the paint colors.

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Hey warbirdcrew,

Thanks for the info on the Expeditor. She looks like a really beautiful machine.

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Might be the same one that's on the desktop calendar at Warbird Depot?
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From the new boy on the street! All instruments were home made! We coulndn't have found that many. It was a wreck, inside skinning had gone, no floor, just a couple of seat lying there. Even the window frames had been ripped out to remove wiring. I made the insruments at home and the actual refurbishment took six months. At 77 years young, wifey restricts me to one day week! She does look after her old man!

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Holy crap, Ken :!: 77. And I thought I was the geezer here at 72. I'm just a whippersnapper.
Glad to have somebody else who actually remembers WWII and the a/c that fought in it.
Outstanding job on the restoration.

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Hi Mudge.

Yep, I do remember the war. I was nine when it started and by the time I had left school at fourteen, I was a Naval Messenger on the Grimsby naval base HMS Beaver. One morning I was standing outside the Fleet Mail Office watching a frigate coming out of dock. There was a lot of signalling going on between the frigate and the Captains Bridge so I asked a Petty Officer what was going on. He said. "There was an air raid last night and they asked if jerry had laid any mines last night and the reply was, we'll soon know, your first out"!!!!

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Lets see if this happens. I'm trying to operate photobucket.[IMG]http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj50/Ratch5/RatchWarbirds/FrontSeat.jpg[/IMG]
If it works, this is a recent photo of me on the airshow flight where we saw the DC-6 In the Weeds that has been a recent topic here. This is the Lone Star obligatory-new-guy's-first-flight pose in the front seat. The view was incredible but that munchkin seat wasn't made for guys over six feet with bad knees.

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Okay, i copied the image link. Where the h... is the image? I'll check in tomorrow.
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Lets see if this happens. I'm trying to operate photobucket. Image
If it works, this is a recent photo of me on the airshow flight where we saw the DC-6 In the Weeds that has been a recent topic here. This is the Lone Star obligatory-new-guy's-first-flight pose in the front seat. The view was incredible but that munchkin seat wasn't made for guys over six feet with bad knees


you missed the space in between "photobucket." and the [img] tag :wink:

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