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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Betcha can't guess...
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    What Is The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen?

    Strange, as in leaves you scratching your head? A while ago, I was driving through my neighborbood. A group of 4-5 young men were standing on the corner. They were late teens to early twenties, and well dressed (sport coats, ties, etc.) Among them was a young lady of about the same age, also...
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    Maybe you were around back then?

    I believe. All my life, I've had what I'll call "images" or "scenes" spontaneously pop into my head. They come from somehat different eras, but cluster around just a couple. One is the late 1800s to early 1900s. The more interesting one is the 1930s - 1940s. I was born in this life in the...
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    finally got my first hat!

    Looks great. I need to find a Burlington Coat store near me.
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    Your Favorite Years? What time period do you follow?

    1925-1940 or so.
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    Rudeness

    That's not rude, just standing up for yourself. When we lived in Dallas, some twit "manager" at the Borders bookstore there accused my wife of shoplifting. My wife was like 40 years old at the time, and spent about $500 a month on books at that store (she reads fast). The twit was approaching...
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    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    I gotta stop reading this stuff at 5:30 in the morning. I laughed so loud I woke up not only my wife, but the neighbors next door.
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    Rudeness

    Yes, people in general are more rude today, at least in the US, then they were say 20 years ago. I attribute it to several things. First, a lot of popular culture today (and for the past many years) has had as it's theme "it's cool to be mean." Second, all those kids my generation (and...
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    What Magazines do you read?

    I don't subscribe to any but when I'm hanging around Barnes and Noble I'll read Plane & Pilot, Kitplanes, Boating, Western Horseman and a few others. Of course, I actually bought the first issue of Classic Style (it really was the first magazine I've actualy purchased in about three years).
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    Incandescent bulbs bye bye + cartoon!

    I hate the things. At least the ones I've seen don't come on right away, and don't give off as much light (yea, that's a generalization since you've got to compare wattages, etc). When I travel, I carry my own light bulbs because I've found a lot of hotels using these horrible contraptions...
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    attention flyboys

    Mam, I'm just the opposite. I really hate having to learn how to work most anything electronic (and I'm an electrical engineer by training).
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    What do you use to shave?

    You're not the only one, Tony. Not only has my face become less sensitive, but my beard doesn't grow nearly as fast now that I've turned 50. If I get a really close shave one day, I can skip the next. When I was younger, I often had to shave twice a day if I wanted to look good in the evening.
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    attention flyboys

    Oh, they've changed. Mine is metal. The new ones are cheap plastic.
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    attention flyboys

    I see Kane calls it a MK6B but, it's what most of us would call an E6B. Looks just like mine. Still very much usable today.
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    attention flyboys

    I'm not familiar with a KANE. Without a picture I'm not sure what it refers to. A common device during that period was the E6B. Kane might be a brand name. The E6B was still used when I learned to fly in the 70s. Today, there are electronic calculators that perform the same typs of...
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    Boeing 314 Posters

    As I recall, the DC 4E never made it into service...or did it? Anybody here know what a DC 5 is? It was a twin engine high wing design desinged in part as a replacement for the DC 3, but the DC 3 just proved to be too economical to operate and the new aircraft didn't sell.
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    I FLEW a WWII airplane!!!!

    Birddog, I've been kicking around the idea of getting either a Fairchild 24 or a Stinson 108. The Fairchild's way cooler and more "vintagey" but there is greater parts and technical support for the Stinson. I'd love to know more about your experiences with the Fairchild.
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    I FLEW a WWII airplane!!!!

    A while back my wife bought my a DC3 type rating course for my 40th birthday. The school was down in south Texas. I passed the checkride with the FAA but unfortunately don't guess I'll ever get behind the controls of a DC3 again. Still a fun time and quite a novelty. I know professional...
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    Examples and Deffinitions of Vintage

    Yikes! Building an airplane with POP rivets?
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    How to travel with hats

    Back on topic - sort of... After my original post, I remembered that a couple of aircraft I used to own, one built in 1960, the other in 1973 (not exactly golden era) both had what the owner's manual refered to as a "hat shelf" at the rear of the passenger cabin.

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