"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/22/2019 at 10:19 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/22/2019 at 10:19 • Filed to: None | 4
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!!!CAPTION ERROR: MAY BE MULTI-LINE OR CONTAIN LINK!!!
How’s everybody doing
today? My chest cold/pneumonia/lung cancer/COPD seems a bit improved today. Still going to be a day of rest, though.
Have a Grumman Mallard. Quack.
Bonus auto-related content:
[M]ost of the 59 Mallards delivered were for corporate use. A prominent user in the United States was Roy Fruehauf and the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation. Fruehauf owned and operated a fishing camp, Killarney Lodge, at Georgian Bay, Canada, and ferried customers there from Detroit. Another Detroiter, William Packer of General Motors, also owned a Mallard, which he often flew to Killarney. ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2019 at 10:24 |
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I really want an amphib, as I’m sure you gleaned yesterday.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/22/2019 at 10:25 |
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This is just such a classically beautiful aircraft, too. In an alternate universe where I have a few billion dollars I would have one of these and fly it around the Caribbean and live in it.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2019 at 11:01 |
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This couple took that idea to the next level by converting an Albatross to an RV.
http://www.doityourselfrv.com/flying-rv-airplane/
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/22/2019 at 11:05 |
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I’m sure you’ve seen this . How much better could it get?
user314
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/22/2019 at 11:06 |
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I trace my love of ‘phibs/flying boats back to this:
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2019 at 11:38 |
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I hadn’t seen that! Unfortunately, it highlights the problems with the idea. I suppose there are a number of people who could afford the $2.5M (in today’s dollars) entry price, but I’m no among them. I’ve always been wary of being a world traveler. It looks like these folks found out the hard way.
In 1959, along with his wife and children, he decided to test one of his creations on a year-long world-wide tour. In Egypt, they were joined by another LIFE photographer, David Lees, and carried on down to the Strait of Tirana, between Egypt’s Sinai and Saudi Arabia.
It was here that their dream voyage would turn into a living nightmare when the family and their guests were suddenly ambushed on the beach by armed Bedouin tribesmen serving in the Saudi Arabian army. Despite Kendall’s claims that they had hoisted their American flag above the pilot’s compartment that morning, the Bedouin soldiers allegedly suspected the Kendalls were Israeli commandos in disguise.
Maybe I can figure out a way to do it on a smaller budget with a Mallard and stay local. Let’s see... $1.5M for a Mallard! Um, no. Even the smaller Widgeon is $300k an up.
Dreams crushed.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/22/2019 at 11:51 |
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The Catalina sat on the beach and rotted for 50 years. I don’t know if it’s still there or not. More pics here .
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2019 at 12:01 |
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I saw that. It was too heartbreaking to post.
I was wondering how the family got away to tell the tale and found their story:
Scroll about halfway down.
InFierority Complex
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2019 at 12:30 |
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I’ve always kind of doubted that story. It just seems to fantastical, I mean, strange things happen but it just seems like they may have been angling for a story. Mechanical trouble or pilot error that he thought he could get some mileage out of?
He mentions the attackers had filed teeth which doesn’t really seem to be a common practice in Saudi Arabia but seems like a detail one would add. There also seems to be remarkably few bullet holes for a plane that got shot up for half an hour.
I don’t know, I’m just taking it with a grain of salt.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/22/2019 at 12:33 |
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That looks like a good read, and lots of photos I’d never seen. Thanks!
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2019 at 09:39 |
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I mpractical comes up short as a word to adequately describe this. Neither do the words maintenance hog . But that Mall ard photo is a nice study of light in old school B/W photography. So’s this one:
Note the soda-acid fire extinguisher on the wall behind the model. And how the photograph is precise enough to show the hair on the model’s legs. Who paid any attention to the airplane in that spread, anyway?
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ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/23/2019 at 09:58 |
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Who paid any attention to the airplane in that spread, anyway?
I think that was the point.