Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/09/2020 at 08:55 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Have a Bristol Type 170 Freighter and some sort of car going on holiday .

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 09:00

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You might be rich if...

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 09:04

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evening.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 09:07

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Pictured: Fancy Kristen’s grandmother circa 1947. Taking the family airliner to their private country with their new car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 09:19

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‘46 Buick Super, not the now-sought-after Sedanette, but a full Sedan. .

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 09:20

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The ramp looks very heavy.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/09/2020 at 09:24

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Robust.

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/09/2020 at 10:06

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I’m guessing it didn’t come along for the ride.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 10:51

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Hey! Speaking of which...

one of the innovative bits in the movie “Goldfinger” is the part where Auric Goldfinger flies his Rolls-Royce back to Switzerland from a rural Airport outside London. This is his “trick” for smuggling her Majesty’s gold out of the UK... as car parts on his actual Rolls.

So, that airport was “real”.
That “fly your car on holiday” to the Continent bit was also real. It was run via  Aviation Traders Carvairs by a company called British United.
This was the brainchild of Freddie Laker, who later revolutionized trans-Atlantic bargain airlines.

So, the only part of this that never made sense was “Geez, doesn’t a Rolls-Royce made largely of gold, rather than steel, really fuck up Weight-and-Balance?”

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 04/09/2020 at 11:37

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What I like about that Goldfinger scene is that it suggests that having a dedicated plane to drive your car into is something so audacious that only an international criminal mastermind would have it. 

fintail > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 11:54

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I recall in the memoirs of JG Ballard that his parents bought a new Buick after the war, and shipped it to Limeyland when they visited.  Could even be the same car.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 15:03

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(Extremely) 1970s documentary clip  about them:

ttyymmnn > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 04/09/2020 at 15:07

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20,000 rivets flying in close formation

I like that. It reminds me a bit of what Roald Dahl had to say about the Gloster Gladiator:

If a clever man said, ‘I am going to build a big thing that will burn better and quicker than anything else in the world,’ and if he applied himself diligently to his task, he would probably finish up by building something very like a Gladiator .”

ttyymmnn > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 04/09/2020 at 15:34

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Bristol 170 prop diameter: 14 feet

F4U Corsair prop diameter: 13 feet 6 inches

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 16:59

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My father in law flew transports for the RNZAF for 20 years, but it was the 2 of those  he spent in Bristols that he blamed for his deafness and tinnitus . Between the big radials , props and continuous buzz of loose rivets, apparently they were LOUD.

ttyymmnn > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 04/09/2020 at 17:00

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I thoroughly enjoyed that video. Thanks for sharing!

oldmxer > ttyymmnn 04/09/2020 at 23:32

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burp!