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Blogging – it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Sorry for that, but work this past week was anything but relaxing or invigorating. We had a few outages which meant I was busier than a bartender in Vegas on New Years Eve. After work I just want to go home, decompress, and get some sleep. OK, [...] I recently had a chance to get a bit of hands-on time with a rare new piece of equipment. The 45 Osprey is a fairly new offering from Silencerco and not too many people have ‘em yet. Lucky for me, I’ve got friends in the business Before we go any further, let’s go over just [...] Work was not fun this week. Yeah, yeah, I can already hear you saying that it wouldn’t be called work if it were fun, but it still wasn’t. Putting in about 35 hours of overtime last month and another extra 8 hours last Saturday has gotten me rather farther along the path to burnout than [...] I’d call today a good day The weather was gorgeous, the bank account has been newly refreshed, and work went better than usual 8) I even got a few decent pictures The first couple of pics today are just basically local shots as I was out and about during my 30 minute lunch. No, [...] These are the airplanes that I did final assembly wing mate, horizontal stab mate and production flight control rigging on. This included the aircraft pictured here. I did the rigging on the Model 40 number one. I was at the Learjet plant from April of 98 to February of 04. Most of my readers have been around for a while now and are probably familiar with my love of aviation and firearms For those who may be new, you might want to click here, here, here, and here. There’s more where those came from, too Anywho, getting the train of thought back on track [...] OK, on we go with part two, still at the Imperial Palace Thanks for sticking with me here – there’s just so much to post This is pretty close to the car portrayed in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and I can’t get enough of that shape We really did have a very good time [...] Buckle up, everyone – my birthday was a long day and there’s lots of pictures I debated waiting until tomorrow to get this post together, but seeing as how I didn’t take any pictures for the blog today, I figured it was only proper that I make up for it by at least getting [...] Due to many laws which I find rather pointless, jet warbirds are a rare breed in the U.S. and around the world as well. United States aircraft are exceedingly rare which makes this T-2 Buckeye a bit of a prize. For many years, the Buckeye was the U.S. Navy’s primary jet trainer and served as [...] |
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Flankers For Sale in the USA!!!
So I got this email today from occasional commenter Jason C about a couple of aircraft which are being offered for sale here in the U.S. I’d heard about them, but hadn’t seen the new pics and video. What you see before you is the mighty Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker This jet is a fire [...]