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... but none of them are in this thread (yet).

I've been to a number of airshows recently. I have several hundred photos (of vastly varying quality) to share. Obviously, I am NOT going to dump them all into one thread.

So... I thought I'd get a feel for who's interested in what so I minimize how much I bore people.

Some of the hardware is military. Some is modern, some is WWII. Who's interested? And in what? I have a limited number of jet fighters like F-16's and stuff. In fact, I'm not sure of some of the things I have, as I am not an expert in modern military stuff.

I have pictures of the inside of B-17, the Yankee Lady. Also have her in flight. Did you know you can buy a ride on a B-17? It's "only" $425 US. My Other Half's reaction to the price tag? "If we hadn't just spent $1,700 on the ground vehicles I would have bought us both tickets." (Which goes a long way towards explaining why I love this guy!)

I have biplane pictures.

I have the interior cockpits of a YAK and (I think I'm spelling this right) a Delphine - it's a jet trainer from the Czech Republic.

I have pictures of a jet-powered Dodge Ram pickup

I have pictures of a jet-powered outhouse. (You just know there was alcohol involved indesigning that one...)

And finally, I think it's time for me to get a Photobucket account or something like that... so any hints/help would be MUCH appreciated. What's simple and cheap? (Like, totally free....)

I'd like pics of the Yak, the B-17, some of the modern stuff.

jet powered outhouse? Fuck yes.

Photobucket is free.

Imageshack is free too.

So post all of them. You might get some of the ones you can't identify, IDed

... Tease.

I'm rather fond of photographs taken from the air, if you have any of those. I'd been considering whether to start a thread with some of the aerial photos I have.

As for the actual planes themselves, I'd be interested more in the biplanes. The B-17 in flight sounds cool too. Well, any planes off the ground and in the air, really. And who could resist oogling a jet powered outhouse?

Go with photobucket. They give out a gig of space and ten gigs of bandwidth, free. They also allow hotlinking.

Photobucket all the way. If you somehow have more than a gig of pics, I can help you out with the rest. I've got plenty of room left on my server space at Librium Arcana.

A definite interest here. I'll jump on the airshow bandwagon once I'm at school.

Interior shots of the B-17, please!

As an aside, a B-25 flew over my place last week. I think it was "Briefing Time", a B-25J based at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA, an hour away from me. It was the loudest prop plane (or helicopter!) I've ever heard around here, and I hear props all the time, living a few miles from a local airport as I do. Magnificent.

Anyway, post the WW2 stuf, if you can! Always happy to see stuff like that.

It figgers... I promise all sorts of pictures and then my computer chokes...

Anyhow - here's the jet-powered outhouse. The scatalogical humor was flying, of course:

id like to see the B-17(always been a fan since i was little), YAK, and any modern military

One more roving jet-powered outhouse pic:



I'll do the B-17 pics under another thread. I'm also doing some re-sizing and cropping so they'll be more reasonable in size for this place, but that will take a little bit.

My main machine is also still having problems, so I'm having to load/work on these from elsewhere, thus limiting my time. So be patient. I hope it's worth the wait.

Is that Throne pilotable or is it a remote control john?

Oh, there's a guy in there driving it alright.

The owner/usual driver had what the show announcer described as "an unfortunate motorcycle accident" (are there any other kind?) and couldn't make the show, so they drafted one of the jet-rated aerobatic pilots to drive it around.

In fact, I think all the aerobatic pilots save one in this show are also pilots for major US airlines. The exception being retired from that occupation, as well as a former Top Gun trophy winner. But I don't know if the Amazing Old Geezer was the one in the jet-powered shithouse or not. I don't think so - someone was talking to me at the time so I didn't catch everything over the PA.

Nifty shots. (I wouldn't mind interiors of the B-17). Oh, and as far as cropping the images, just use thumbnails for whatever service you're using. I believe Photobucket and Flickr offer thumbnail links for forums so you don't have to post huge images. That way you save bandwidth and stuff. And time cropping.

Hey Broomie, did you know that whenever I see your name on the thread list, I always think it says "Boomstick" instead of "Broomstick"? Just a totally off-topic note for your enjoyment.

Darth Wong wrote:Hey Broomie, did you know that whenever I see your name on the thread list, I always think it says "Boomstick" instead of "Broomstick"? Just a totally off-topic note for your enjoyment.

That's also the way I most commonly misspell it - makes it very annoying to try to get into my e-mail, keep checking the password is alright, then realize I've been "booming" instead of "brooming".

General Zod wrote:Nifty shots. (I wouldn't mind interiors of the B-17). Oh, and as far as cropping the images, just use thumbnails for whatever service you're using. I believe Photobucket and Flickr offer thumbnail links for forums so you don't have to post huge images. That way you save bandwidth and stuff. And time cropping.

Thanks, but I've decided to bite the bullet and get some of this stuff on to my website, which hasn't been updated for... oh, a very long time. Which will require cropping, etc. Seeing as I will have more spare time what with my flying being curtailed for a couple months (fucking finances...!)

Sping Echo wrote:I'm rather fond of photographs taken from the air, if you have any of those.

Uh, yeah - I've been flying since 1995. I've got a few aerial photos. Gigabytes of 'em, in fact.

By all means - if you got airborne photos start a thread....

Broomstick wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:Hey Broomie, did you know that whenever I see your name on the thread list, I always think it says "Boomstick" instead of "Broomstick"? Just a totally off-topic note for your enjoyment.

That's also the way I most commonly misspell it - makes it very annoying to try to get into my e-mail, keep checking the password is alright, then realize I've been "booming" instead of "brooming".

What is the origin/meaning of "Broomstick"?

Ah, I was wondering when someone would ask that...

Well, you see, witches ride brooms. And I'm a witch

The "broomstick" being the handle of the broom, which is the part you sit on while flying. Although personally I find airplane seats to be much more comfortable with value-added features like seat padding and upholstery.

I only learned to fly a couple decades after I acquired the name. A pagan muckety-muck third-degree whatever once told me was an excellent example of why one should be careful about choosing one's Craft/Magickal name and that I was practically setting myself up for being required to take flying lessons. I said, jeepers, it's not like I titled myself Queen of Air and Darkness or something. A broom is a pretty mundane appliance, either for housework or hedgewitching.

Anyhow, I've been accused of riding 'em. And my current flight school has told me that I am NOT allowed to sky-write SURRENDER DOROTHY with the aerobat with the smoke rig on it. Something about making the tourists nervous....

Broomstick wrote:Anyhow, I've been accused of riding 'em. And my current flight school has told me that I am NOT allowed to sky-write SURRENDER DOROTHY with the aerobat with the smoke rig on it. Something about making the tourists nervous....

Awwwww, you should totally do it.

::: smack :::

Don't tempt me. I get into enough trouble without your help!

Today I was wishing for a video camera, because how does one show that a plane is flying backwards in a picture? I got some pictures at the airshow today including one of Sean Tucker's Oracle biplane going backwards in level flight. He somehow tumbled his plane around and made it fly backwards for a few seconds before stalling out and going into a dive.

Two ways to make a fixed-wing fly backwards:

1) Fly into a headwind slower than it's pushing you backward. So if the wind is 50 (units don't matter for this purpose) and your airspeed is 45, relative to the ground you will be traveling 5 backwards. If the proper conditions are available, this may be done early in primary training, for purposes of illustrating relative speeds and as part of slow flight instruction. Of course, in primary training this is done at a generous altitude, not low down like the airshow pilots do.

2) Tailslide. In which case you're not really "flying backwards" so much as letting gravity pull you backwards as well as downwards. Be careful which airplane you do this in - not all of them can recover from such a manuver. Sean Tucker's certainly can.

Personally, I think some of those airshow pilots have a cheat-code for gravity.

Broomstick wrote:

Sping Echo wrote:I'm rather fond of photographs taken from the air, if you have any of those.

Uh, yeah - I've been flying since 1995. I've got a few aerial photos. Gigabytes of 'em, in fact.

Ah, wasn't sure since your original post seemed to only mention photos from airshows. I started a thread with some of airborne photos I had laying around. Don't have immediate access to most of mine, though.

I only learned to fly a couple decades after I acquired the name. A pagan muckety-muck third-degree whatever once told me was an excellent example of why one should be careful about choosing one's Craft/Magickal name and that I was practically setting myself up for being required to take flying lessons. I said, jeepers, it's not like I titled myself Queen of Air and Darkness or something. A broom is a pretty mundane appliance, either for housework or hedgewitching.

So what would you have had to do if you had decided to title yourself Queen of Air and Darkness?

A jet-powered outhouse...

Man that's just BEGGING for a funny macroing!

Spin Echo wrote:So what would you have had to do if you had decided to title yourself Queen of Air and Darkness?

HIDE

The "Queen of Air and Darkness" is a euphenism for one of the more powerful Tuatha de Danaan, the original Celtic "Faeries". These weren't cute little pixies. More like 14 foot tall warriors with God-powers. Bloodthirsty and not at all forgiving of human arrogance. I'd say it was a lot like asking for a lighting bolt to the brain-case but I doubt the Queen would be anywhere near that restrained if you pissed Her off.

If you believe in any of that.

NeoPagans usually conflate/syncretize her with the Crone aspect of the Triple Goddess. Which mellows "Her" out quite a bit, even if the Crone functions as a Death Goddess as well as a sort of Ultimate Tender Grandma. It gets quite complicated and probably would deserve its own thread.

Water Gods tend to be mecurial - Air Gods tend to be demanding, unforgiving sons of bitches. Which is entirely in keeping with what I know of actual aviation. Old aviation quote, dating to WWII:

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect

I lose a friend or acquaintance to death-by-aviation about every two years. Unforgiving indeed. I sincerely hope there never comes a day when either my Other Half or someone like mingo posts here that I have met my demise, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a possibility. Believe me, I do everything I can to minimize that possibility, but I'm just as human as anyone else.