Aviation Related Chritsmas Presents, 1600th post!

[Pat Carry]

For my 1,600 post, what aviation related presents did everyone get for Chritsmas? I treated myself to the book "H-e-l-l Hawks".

Last edited by Pat Carry on Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:22 am, edited 8 times in total.

[mustangdriver]

My fiancé bought me a new diecast plane for my collection. She likes when I get examples that we have seen together. She bought me the F-105 "Memphis Belle II".

[Jerry O'Neill]

I got the Books "The Few" about American's flying during the Battle of Britain, "The Candy Bombers" about the Berlin Airlift, and the latest Hallmark Aircraft Ornament for the tree, the Cessna 310, and my grandson's gave me a toy of the "Flying Wing" from "Raiders of the lost Ark"!
Jerry

[Scott Rose]

I received two of those little micro R/C helicopters

[APG85]

Doolittle's book: "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again."

[Second Air Force]

We got a print of Wade Meyers' beautiful Temporary Reprieve. Thanks, again, Wade! And Santa brought us Mickey, our new German Shepherd puppy. She counts because she spent time guarding the VFM hangar before we adopted her.

Scott

[buffcc]

I got 2 books.
"On Silver Wings"; The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
"We Were Crewdogs V"; We Flew the heavies... short stories and tales by B-52 aircrew members

[Nathan]

I got on DVD:

The Final Countdown
Always
Air America
Crimson Tides

Others:

A wood model my gf put together
16GB flash drive

Nathan(the couch potato for the next couple of days)

[ZRX61]

Revell model of a Bf109
4 books:
Dr Space
The Candy Bombers
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
The Irregulars
A folder of *stuff* about the Spitfire & Hurricane that contains a few posters & copies of WWII documents about them.

& yet another aviation related printed teatowel from my mother who seems to have a habit of finding these things when ever she's on her travels about the UK. The latest being USAF aircraft based in the UK over the years. I also have ones that show WWII air bases, BoB aircraft, SAR aircraft & various other subjects including vintage transport & old British motorcycles.

[tom d. friedman]

i splurged & bought myself a present!! the new book "japanese secret projects" experimental aircraft of the ija & ijn 1939 -1945. there are some real ww 2 obscure projects revealed in this book!! all fresh stuff which i crave!! i'm sure some posts will be coming as i read the book. great illustrations too!

[CrewDawg]

The entire Baa Baa Blacksheep TV series on DVD - Sgt. Micklin is my hero - "College Boys!" and Martin Bowman's "B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 2)".

[Holedigger]

Re-Subscription to Smithsonian Air & Space Mag, only drawback is that I have to fight my 11 yr old for the right to read it first!

[CH2Tdriver]

The Sporty's DVD/PC course - Flying the Garmin G-1000, to get my head wrapped around the whole set up in the new C-172R I have available to teach in. I never flew anything with glass before.

Pete

[corsair166b]

Only one I got has marginal amounts of WWII aviation in it, a book on the Battle off Samar called 'The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers'.....great reed, mainly naval battle stuff but lots of aviation

mark

[Pat Carry]

That is a great book Mark. The stands the US destroyers made against a far superior force of Japanese ships is about as heroic as they come. I sent my book off to the author and he signed it for me.