CAF question???

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:29 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Well Taylor if that's not a CAF owned a/c we'll be expecting a "BIG" decal on your L-5 :twisted:

Not until at least after Oshkosh - Please! On the other hand, if I could get a company to sponsor our L-5, I have a good idea of how it could get good ground visibility and still look better with the paint they'd buy us. Still looking however. I'd still like to have a go at whoever decided that the desert scheme was a good thing to go on ole' "Warbug" (no longer).

Ryan

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:08 pm

k5083 wrote:

Photoshop, guys. Photoshop.

August

When did they finnish the gear doors????? FINALLY!!!

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:13 pm

N3Njeff wrote:

When did they finnish the gear doors????? FINALLY!!!

k5083 wrote:

Photoshop, guys. Photoshop.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:14 pm

WTF is that French POS? Now that is one plane that the ugly tattoo can't even make uglier.

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:20 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

WTF is that French POS? Now that is one plane that the ugly tattoo can't even make uglier.

Need to do a bit more work in your 'international diplomacy' class, Ober.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:23 pm

Compared to what "Grounds Keeper Willie" said that was nuth'in!

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:55 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

WTF is that French POS?

Obergrafter, you're saying much more about yourself than you are the plane...

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:08 am

OK so I will never be an ambassador to France, not one of our top allies anyway, but does anyone know what that is? I thought I knew airplane types fairly well, but that thing has me stumped. I thought the Storch was ugly, but that thing takes ugly to a new level.

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:54 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

OK so I will never be an ambassador to France, not one of our top allies anyway, but does anyone know what that is? I thought I knew airplane types fairly well, but that thing has me stumped. I thought the Storch was ugly, but that thing takes ugly to a new level.

OK, I'll fess up. I thought I knew, but I din't. :oops:

As to the French ambassador role, let's remember who stood by the founding fathers when William 3's boys were cutting up rough in N America. They weren't called the Lafayette Squadron because it sounded cute. There's important history there.

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:56 am

Maybe this cutie makes up for it?

The SNCASO SO.7060

IndyJen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:11 am

Oh, gee--cutie indeed. Want!

There was a husband-and-wife aerobatic team, the "French Connection," who flew a pair of very appealing French planes, that for the life of me I can't remember the name of now, even though I can see them in my mind plain as day. They were beautiful. I want one of them too. If I can ever remember what they were. I guess I will have to go Google.

One thing about the French, they can make some beautiful airplanes. All the way from Nieuports to Mirages, they always seem to consider the lines of the thing. as being equal in importance to the performance, if not more so.

IndyJen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:13 am

Aha, yes--the CAP-10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French ... aerobatics)

Sweet-lookin' airplane, that.

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:28 am

IndyJen wrote:

One thing about the French, they can make some beautiful airplanes. All the way from Nieuports to Mirages, they always seem to consider the lines of the thing. as being equal in importance to the performance, if not more so.

Oh, sure. But just to keep a kind of balance, some of the ugliest, too.

The pre-war 'Multiplace de Combat' offences to greenhouses-with-wings, and then some (not all) of the postwar experimental types. The Leducs looked like Captain Nemo would place a big order, but not the air force (which didn't).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiot_143

http://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/pas ... 0.html?L=1

See the 'Septum', one of the few of Howdy Bixby's planes that looks credible!
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Major ... 0Bixby.htm

http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/leduc.php

IndyJen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:07 am

Those are pretty funny. I especially like that Caproni pushmi-pullyu.

But ... the "Septum?" Bwahahaha!

You should see the Societe Pour la Aviation et ses Derievees "Uvula." Now, there's a design that'll gag you!

airnutz · **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:25 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

WTF is that French POS? Now that is one plane that the ugly tattoo can't even make uglier.

Itsa Nord N.C.856A Norvigie and a veteran of the Algeria hostilities. Three place with 160hp dragging it thru the air.

It's kinda cute..in a Holly Hunter kinda way. I want one to keep my Airtuck company.

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