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10-22-2008, 05:37 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Pittsburg, Ca.
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| Just dropping by to say hi. Thought I would finally drop in a say hi. Retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief. Have an intense love for all things aviation. Even got my pilots license before my driver's license. Been nosing around for awhile and decided I should just go ahead and join. It looks like you need more "squids" around here anyway. Have had an interest in World War II aviation ever since I can remember. Grew up next to a small airport in southern California where my grandfather had kept his plane. I posted some pictures of my "playground" back in 196..hack, hack. I was amazed when I found them while doing some online research. My long suffering wife thought I was having a fit of some sort as I was trying to get her attention. The place doesn't exist anymore and I had always talked about it, but she had never seen it. The airport is now John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Ca. This was back before even Hughes Air West flew out of there. Some of my fondest memories are flying with my late grandfather when I was a kid. Anyway, it looks like you guys have a pretty squared away site here. Looking forward to some conversation and research. Take care, C2 |
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10-22-2008, 06:09 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
Posts: 3,115
| welcome to the site and great pics you posted
__________________  "We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!" quote from B.O.B movie |
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10-22-2008, 06:18 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| Welcome to the forum! Greeting from the Czech Republic  Oh, where are those birds from the pics today...?
__________________  Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. |
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10-22-2008, 06:35 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 15,144
| Welcome to the family C2!
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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10-22-2008, 07:40 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
Posts: 14,809
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10-22-2008, 08:31 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Posts: 15,224
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr |
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10-22-2008, 08:45 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Welcome Senior Chief - former AD2 here.
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10-22-2008, 09:13 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
Posts: 4,346
| Welcome Chief. thanks for the pics as well.
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10-22-2008, 09:26 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| G'day mate, welcome from Oz.
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10-22-2008, 09:45 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: In my Igloo in Canada
Posts: 112
| Welcome and hope you enjoy yourself around here
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10-22-2008, 12:44 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
Posts: 10,237
| Welcome to the forum Chief and thanks for those pics!
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10-22-2008, 02:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 9,062
| Welcome from England Chief. Some playground! great pics. |
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10-22-2008, 03:31 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
Posts: 33,152
| Welcome to the forum.  Im a former US Army Blackhawk Crew Chief.
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10-22-2008, 03:37 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: my azz is in Mississippi, but, I am a true Texan.
Posts: 997
| Welcome, Senior Chief! AWESOME "playground" you have there.
__________________  "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein Life is tough..its even harder when you're stupid. -John Wayne |
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10-22-2008, 04:04 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 5,689
| Welcome to the family as lucky said....  |
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