What's the proper word for planelopnik pron?

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12/13/2013 at 15:46 • Filed to: None

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Airpron? Plorn? Poranes? Anyway, Armstrong-Siddeley Mongoose.


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Kinja'd!!! ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 15:48

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Where was this taken? I feel like I've seen that plane before.


Kinja'd!!! Slave2anMG > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 15:49

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I think the word here is 'sexeh'....


Kinja'd!!! PilotMan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 15:53

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Is that some kind of a Ryan?


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PilotMan
12/13/2013 at 16:09

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It is a "Hawker Tomtit" according to Wikipedia.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
12/13/2013 at 16:11

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Shuttleworth Collection - Old Warden airfield in Bedfordshire. Not sure they provide the planes to anyone else ever, but this Hawker Tomtit is flyable.


Kinja'd!!! ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 16:15

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Must just have been a similar design then.

Still a bloody cool plane.


Kinja'd!!! Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 16:22

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Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
12/13/2013 at 16:26

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My pic:Your pic as Pinup:Picture of orgy

At least from an engine standpoint.


Kinja'd!!! Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/13/2013 at 17:24

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Can you imagine what an oil change would cost on that beast?


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
12/13/2013 at 17:33

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If I were a clever head of maintenance, I'd have service cycles done in stages. Say I had 8 crew, split them into groups of four, and have said groups of four do time-costly maintenance like oil changes on given quads of engines. If the oil needs changing any less frequently than once per 3 flights, do outboard four, midboard four, inboard four in rotation, giving the crew off-cycles with their group to do general checkup.

As to cost, as those are large but not staggeringly huge engines, a 55gal drum split 12 ways makes for four+ gallons an engine - probably not too far off. Basically, an entire barrel+ of oil every time you do all twelve.