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02-15-2009, 08:44 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Near McGuire AFB, NJ
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| Aircraft numbers as codes When I was in High School, I used to put my locker combinations on my book covers, using aircraft names as reminders. I've always been an airplane nut, so the name/number relation, plus other features, has always been with me. For example, one year I wrote on my book as follows: Fortress SM79Engines Martin Bomber That decoded to : 17 3 10 (Understand that the A-10 didn't exist when I went to school. Had it been, I'd have used something like "P-47-II" for "Thunderbolt II". My question is this: Have any of you done something akin to this? CD |
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02-15-2009, 08:47 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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__________________  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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02-16-2009, 04:23 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007
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No lockers Captain, but I use to have a tumbler chain lock for the bicycle. The combination went something like "Stratojet and American Canberra", which meant "4757". In the end I had to use the hacksaw.  My mother was/is a a devout Lutheran. She would "drag" her children to church every Sunday. The Australian Lutheran Hymnal consisted of about 700 hymns. Each Sunday the board at the front of the Church advertised about 4-5 hymns that were to be sung. For example; 192 66 339 149 As a good German and aircraft nut I was always thinking of the '8' Series Type Numbers and would ignore the sermon (always boring) trying to ascertain the companies involved. The example above would represent; Ago Arado Flettner Gotha Get the idea? Give it a go Captain!  222 396 101 122 | |
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02-16-2009, 07:47 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Near McGuire AFB, NJ
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| Hmm, I didn't expect a quiz! I'll give it a try, though: 222 - BV flying boat 396 - Condor + Ar seaplane = Fw200 + Ar196 101 - For that, I'd go with the F101 Voodoo 122 - USAF Connie + 1= C121 +1 Not the same ones, I'm sure! Okay, here's a current locker combo: Demon Spirit Mathy's last mission In the same line, I've done a brain-teaser to come up with an airplane name for every letter of the alphabet, or, alternatively an airplane company for evey letter. CD Last edited by Captain Dunsel; 02-16-2009 at 07:53 AM. Reason: Added new combo key |
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02-20-2009, 05:24 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Near McGuire AFB, NJ
Posts: 165
| Okay, here it is: Demon is the Curtis CW-21 Demon Spirit is the B-2 (Northrup-Grumman) Mathy's last mission was his 13th (His zeppelin was shot down in flames). So, the combo is 21 - 2 -13 A bit freaky, eh? CD |
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