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From: Thomas Heide Clausen <omlist@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:13:59 +0200
>I also really deeply hope, that the most beautiful aircraft of all
>times will be allowed a final flight....yeah, the Concorde, of
>course. I never got to fly one (sigh) nor to take any good in-air
>photos of one (double-sigh), and I would like to rectify at least
>one of these serious flaws.
The last really, absolutely, totally BEAUTIFUL airplane, IMNSHO,
was the P-51, a/k/a the Mustang. I spent many hours of my youth
building models of this sleek and speedy WWII fighter, with its
belly airscoop and four-bladed prop.
In fact, in my teens, in that year just before I got a driver's
license and thereafter found other pursuits more in keeping with
my raging hormones, I spent months building a U-control Mustang
that I covered with aluminum foil into which I had spent countless
hours with a toothpick and magnifying glass carefully poking
little dimples to replicate the rivets.
It glowed and gleamed and looked absolutely fantastic sitting on
the ground. But, sadly, the foil on top of the fiberglass made it
too heavy to fly very well, even powered by a tweaked Fox 35, and
it crashed the second or third time I got it airborne.
This unfortunate incident occurred about a week after I got my
driver's license and permission to use the '56 Chevy on weekends,
and I gave the wreckage to a 12-year-old cousin who hadn't yet
begun to appreciate the possibilities of girls and cars and who
loved it so much he actually put it back together. I don't think
it ever flew again, though. And I kept the Fox 35.
Come to think of it, maybe I remember all this so fondly because
of all the Android glue fumes I inhaled back in those innocent
times, before we had learned that these vapors made you high and
happy and killed brain cells.
There's a good chance that's part of what's wrong with me today.
Take that into consideration, y'all, when I go weird or wander off
topic sometimes.
And, yeah, I saw the picture of Chris Barker in the cockpit of
one. I was immediately rendered too envious to comment, and I
remain so.
Walt
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