Military types in civvie schemes

[Cap'n Wannabe]

Wrong shade o' red, too..

[tor lives]

Some more red ones for inspiration









Enjoy
TOR

[AndrewDoppel]

Getting back to the subject at hand, I received some slides last night that eventually will get turned into photos but they are from the Confederate Air Force in about 1974 or something. They were taken by my late father-in-law but some of the images are of military aircraft in civvie schemes. When I find them there are also some slides of the XB-70 Valkaryie during testing that he was in the US to observe whilst in prototype mode.

Very much looking forward to seeing these pic's Andrew. What may interest you is a magazine out now called X-Planes. One of the articles is about a guy who managed to eject from the X-B-70 that crashed - a pretty riveting story. Highly recommended reading if you are into this subject - you kinda are by marriage!

Cheers

Adam

Hmmmm, Might have to track that down Adam. Cheers for the heads up!

[tor lives]

The 1:48 Shell racing Mustang has arrived and here she is





My flock of 1:48 diecast racing Mustangs is now complete for the time being, but I will be adding some others in kit form when/where I get the chance to build em.

And especially for Knotty here is my 1:48 Shell air racing fleet





TOR

[Knotty]

Very nice Ray , it's a shame the shell company is not what it used to be . you have a fair air racer fleet going on now .!!

[Adam the Akrodude]

Lookin' Cool Ray!

Anyone interested in Shell Aviation should read up on Jimmy Doolittle - and feel pretty darn insignificant! Doolittle must go down as one of the greatest aviation pioneers and military aviation leaders of all time I think - an absolute genius of a man.

When working for Shell, he was instrumental pushing for more 100 Octane production in USA - when the rest of the world was producing lower octane petrol. This of course had a major impact during WW2 - just one of his many staggering aviation achievements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Doolittle

[Knotty]

The old 145 octane Avgas , now THAT was some kick ass fuel !!! What do we have now ? 100 ll low lead shit that smells like rotten eggs when the cap is removed .

[Adam the Akrodude]

The old 145 octane Avgas , now THAT was some kick ass fuel !!! What do we have now ? 100 ll low lead shit that smells like rotten eggs when the cap is removed .

Yeah 145! Now you're talkin! Was that a green colour? Yeah - Low Lead, how piss weak! I say we want more lead - more octane! Rotten eggs probably means high sulphur I guess. Hey Damo, up for some "chem spraying"? We need more sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere!

[hrtpaul]

100 octane was green. I think 145 was purple or was that 115?

[tor lives]

Why were all these fuel cuts different colours???
TOR