 | nice ride| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss nice ride in the Current forums; Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass
although them seats don't actually look that comfy............
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11-19-2005, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass although them seats don't actually look that comfy............ | They'd be more comfortable than being stuck at the back of commercial airliner...
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11-19-2005, 07:13 AM
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#17 | | Master of Ewes
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Originally Posted by trackend I find it quite sick really specialy as the middle east countries keep calling the Western nations greedy capitalist infidels perhaps they should look a bit closer to home.
Apart from that gold taps and sinks are not practical anyway its just showing off and for myself I cant stand boasters. | The Sultan of Brunei is one of the richest perosns in the World... By the way, Brunei lays in South-East Asia... So no Middle East...
When I was like 10, we had an article about him in the English Project (or what was the name...) school book...
His citizen are living in very comfort but their numbers are like 200,000 or something lie a very small number...
pbfoot, nice pictures. The one with the "café sofa" is posted twice... http://www.sultanbrunei.com/aboutbrunei.asp | |
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11-19-2005, 01:37 PM
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11-19-2005, 01:51 PM
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11-19-2005, 02:00 PM
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11-19-2005, 02:09 PM
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Country: | No he couldn't because all the Lightnings left are all owned by someone, and they wouldn't sell them to him for all the money in the world. Plus the fact, he probably doesn't even know what a Lightning is.
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11-20-2005, 10:09 AM
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#23 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | While I think it looks nice on the inside I agree with FBJ. Its overkill and ruins a perfectly good plane.
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11-20-2005, 10:11 AM
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#24 | | Master of Ewes
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11-20-2005, 11:42 AM
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#25 | | Der Crewchief
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11-20-2005, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by plan_D No he couldn't because all the Lightnings left are all owned by someone, and they wouldn't sell them to him for all the money in the world. Plus the fact, he probably doesn't even know what a Lightning is. | He can build a replica... | |
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11-20-2005, 03:37 PM
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#27 | | Der Crewchief
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11-20-2005, 09:29 PM
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Country: | A replica isn't a Lightning though ...it's a replica.
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11-21-2005, 06:32 AM
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Country:  | I'm not refuting what you are saying D, I totally agree, but I have a general question. when does an aircraft become a replica?
If you have say an E E Lighting but to make it airworthy a large percentage of it has to be replaced at what point is it no longer an original. If say more than 50% has been replaced with patent parts, Is it a replica or an original. Or if the airframe is original but it has a new skin and engines etc, is it original even though most of it has been replaced.
Most of the flying WW2 aircraft have had huge amounts of the original WW2 components replaced in order to make them fly, and indeed even static aircraft have many parts made to complete them for display purposes.
I feel there are very few truly original aircraft from WW2 in existence. One that springs to mind is the Corsair at FAA museum in Yeovilton even the paintwork is from the 40s and anything later has been removed, I'm not sure about the tyres though.
How do you guys feel about it ?
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11-21-2005, 06:57 AM
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Country:  | You're very correct Track. Many of the warbirds I've come across have had a great percentage of their original parts replaced for some reason or another. The biggest thing that's replaced from WW2 birds are the radios. You could yank out that 100 pound cathode tube beast (considering you could even get the thing to work) and replace it with an all-digital, "flip flop" 720 channel nav-com that also has a moving map GPS that weighs under 2 pounds and installs in an area 2" x 4" x 3". But to put this into a greater perspective; I had a conversation with my friend Doug Gilliss recently about warbirds. Doug owns the L-29 I get to fly and has also flown a T-6 and I believe he has time in a P-51. I asked him about owning something like a P-51 or a Corsair in lieu of a jet like an L-29 or T-33 and he came up with something very interesting. "The people who designed and built WW2 fighters did not envision them lasting but a few hundred hours. It doesn't make me very confident flying those types of aircraft, no matter how good they are restored 60 years later." Comments?!?
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