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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BeltFed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/14/2012 at 12:59
Don't quit now Professor Ed. You still have to get through WWI, and 60 years of aviation.
Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

Don't quit now Professor Ed. You still have to get through WWI, and 60 years of aviation.
Yep it was a very cool tread... when he bothered to post......
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dogger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/16/2012 at 08:14
All kidding aside, this must take a lot of time to put the history together, pictures are easy - thanks Ed and carry on please
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AWWWW come on Craig we have him squirming....
 
I'm sure it takes alot of time just to load all the pictures but moving across the country is NO excuse!!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dogger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/16/2012 at 09:52
Well, Ed did call me in tears but I managed to calm him down some by giving him your address and phone number.
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I gave him the same wrong address a couple of months ago.  I't a special Dead Letter office drop bnox that return the mail to sender 30 days later... Hippie
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Don't worry Ed,I'll tell you where Bud lives.he lives in PennsylvaniaWink
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Geez....I'm sure feeling the love... Clown
 
Someone's too old and a too slow moving target not to mention a nice little day trip to be a rat...Eek
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Looks like a good place for an aviation museum.
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needs bigger doors....  plenty of floorspace though!   Even My Ex could park a car in there!
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Hey, Ed, you kinda quit on us right before you got to the good stuff!

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I'm thinking his next subscription to model builders magazine got lost in the move!  That or the move overheads have his wings clipped for now! Bandito
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

Hey, Ed, you kinda quit on us right before you got to the good stuff!

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I have a couple of great books on early aviation.  But I lacked a great book on World War I flying.  So, I wanted to do a whole section of World War One before I went into the post-war years.  In the meantime, I was packing to move to Texas.  I still have not gotten a big encyclopedic book of WWI fliers ( but I do have a book which decribes the aircraft ).....anyway, I just put this on hold for a while.
 
And now EVERYONE has turned my cool thread into a ......er.........a......BIGDADDY!!!!!    Furious
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ed, the leap that aviation took during WWI was huge, and I don't think you could cover it as thoroughly as the other stuff, without dieing of old age (did I say that?). You should have stopped at the Air Force Museum, at Wright Patterson AFB, outside of Dayton, Ohio, on your way to Texas. They cover from concept to the beginning of WWII in 1/6th of the Museum (at least the last time I was there).
The technical advances made after the war are more interesting than the advances of WWI. I mean all they did really was slightly more efficient engines, develope fighter and bomber specific aircraft, some streamlining, synchronized gun systems with propellers, and develope tactics.
The advances made after WWI, are more interestig; constant speed props, oxygen systems, all metal construction, turbo chargers, better airfoils, and on, and on.
Come on man! Get with it, and don't get hung up on something.
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Ed, you know how it is here, nothing's really safe. Wink 

Continue picking up where you left off pre-WWI and then create a separate more in-dept WWI thread.  Big Smile










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" He says I should continue with the thread and do World War One later!  Would you please get me a cigarette! " 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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