"Chris Clarke" (shiftsandgiggles)
03/10/2020 at 09:34 • Filed to: planelopnik, auction, military, history, aviation, airplane
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"Chris Clarke" (shiftsandgiggles)
03/10/2020 at 09:34 • Filed to: planelopnik, auction, military, history, aviation, airplane | 2
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Many historic military aviation artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania Warbird Military Museum are about to come !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and I can’t decide what I should waste my money on?
I really like the F-86 fuselage but an F-4 would also be pretty phantastic. Probably out of my price range but there are many other items available like ejection seats, cockpit hardware, pilot uniforms, and even an old simulator.
What would you buy?
facw
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:44 |
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Hmm the F-4 is the one that isn’t completely stripped of instruments and controls, but do I like the full canopies on the Hunters.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:45 |
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id definetly go for an ejection seat
Chariotoflove
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:45 |
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I think a working ejection seat for the home gaming rig is a must. Safety first.
Darkbrador
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:46 |
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Turn the F86 into a hot rod / land speed machine ?
My personal choices would be the lot #2 (I’m a pilot and I’m French, so there you have that) and l ot #46, that would be rad on a motorcycle or hot-rod project.
Oh well, I’ll get back to work now ...
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:49 |
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Yes
ttyymmnn
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:49 |
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Oh, definitely the Hunter. This has always been one of my favorites. I would just sit in the cockpit and make jet and machine gun noises.
Looks like another Hunter parked beside.
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Chris Clarke
> Darkbrador
03/10/2020 at 09:50 |
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Turning the F-4 into a car is another phantastic idea.
McMike
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 09:57 |
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“ I told you the last time you brought a broken airplane home you would have to sell them all. I don’t care how you do it, but I want them all out of there. People are starting to talk.”
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Chris Clarke
> McMike
03/10/2020 at 10:00 |
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One man’s trash is another man’s.... “museum?”
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facw
> ttyymmnn
03/10/2020 at 10:08 |
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Yep, there are two:
Lots 9 and 10.
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:10 |
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I’d go for the Ercoupe, I can’t explain why but I love those things.
I have a friend who’s a big plane buff and he’s also building a hot-rod. I’m going to do my duty as a friend and try to convince him to buy the ejection seats to put in it!
MonkeePuzzle
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:10 |
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yes, you should buy it, then ride it
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ttyymmnn
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
03/10/2020 at 10:16 |
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First RATO (JATO if you’d rather) in the US was in an Ercoupe.
Kiltedpadre
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:17 |
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I’ll take the sad little Ercoupe.
ClassicDatsunDebate
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:20 |
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Turn the F86 into a huge Big Mouth Billy Bass
Nom De Plume
> McMike
03/10/2020 at 10:22 |
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Except anyone here would restore it and make a flying bridge out to it off their deck so they could sit in it drinking their morning coffee with an unobstructed view.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:24 |
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That F86 Sabre fuselage would make an amazing Blastolene-style open-wheel monster.
Gigantic engine right behind the cockpit, driving the rear wheels, radiator inside the jet intake.
Either that, or an actual jet dragster.
Or
maybe a turboshaft hybrid, with the turboshaft engine turning a
generator,
with huge electric traction motors driving the wheels
.... and afterburner flame throwers in the exhaust.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> ttyymmnn
03/10/2020 at 10:24 |
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That looks.... AWESOME! Now I want an Ercoupe even more!!!
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> McMike
03/10/2020 at 10:25 |
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That cockpit with a flattened bottom would make a sweet open-wheel race car, like a bigger version of the BAC MONO.
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ttyymmnn
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
03/10/2020 at 10:26 |
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Watching the video, I think I saw one of the rockets blow up during the ground test. That’s not optimal.
Jetstreamer
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:42 |
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Get that Ercoupe 415C for a couple of dollars and start practicing your metal working skills. Decent looking ones go for 25-30 grand, this could be a fixer upper for less, haha.
Jim Spanfeller
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 10:43 |
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As soon as I saw this, I thought, “mount that sucker on whatever cheap car chassis you can find and hoon like mad”. It would make an epic open-wheel race car. Do it.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> ttyymmnn
03/10/2020 at 10:46 |
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I watched it and didn’t notice that. That would be a little sketchy.
I love when he activates the rockets mid-flight, that had to be pretty entertaining in the little Ercoupe.
A Boy and His Longtail
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 11:26 |
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There is a mostly complete Beech 18 fuselage and nobody is talking about that beaut? That’s what you go for and then restore it.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 11:49 |
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Twin Beech resto!
VincentMalamute-Kim
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 13:17 |
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F-86 air intake is iconic. Only having
the front of the F-4 without it’s angled wings looks generic.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 13:46 |
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When I was in the USMC I volunteered at an aircraft museum and I worked on a Saber quite a bit.
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Chris Clarke
03/10/2020 at 13:46 |
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They use too much gas...