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[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Okay and Dan's trivia aviation nicknames for today...................

1. Puff the Magic Dragon
2. Spooky
3. Dust Off
4. Sandy
5. Spad (not WWI)
6. Hoover
7. Kneecap

And bonus......what airplane was the Ruptured Duck

Vic got puff and spooky

Dust Off is a Medivac Chopper

Sandy and Spad are one and the same the A-1 Skyraider...Sandy was given in it's Combat SAR role in Vietnam and actually the call sign is still used. Spad becasue in a time of jets and stuff, the prop job kept on ticking in combat service

Hoover is the name given to S3 Vikings...it has high bypass turbofan engines that sound like a vacuum cleaner really.....when they land they make a veryn distinctive WHOOP WHOOP sound as the pilot jockeys the throttles

Kneecap is the National Airborne Command Post aka the flying whitehouse

[Anonymous]

Puff was John Wayne's favorite aircraft in one of his movies. It saved the day. It seems like I remember them saying that Puff would put a bullet every square foot (or maybe inch) over a football field in one pass. Don't want to be on the receiving end of that now do we. [}:)] [;)]

I believe Puff was a D C 3. The military version was a A C 47. If I remember correctly Puff's fire(power) were 3 miniguns. The minigun is the new and improved version of the Civil War Gatling gun. The rate of fire for one minigun is something like 3000 rounds a minute. I know that someone here in the forum can give us the correct number is I am wrong. Even if it were just 1000 rounds a minute that would still be devasting on the receiving end. I sure don't want to make Puff mad. [}:)] [:D] [;)]

[Anonymous]

Dan,

and others too of course,

Does anyone know of a catalog like Historic Rail but for ships? Yes Dan, we know about Jane's, but we want ships we can model and books, vids etc, on ships.

[Anonymous]

I love both, and always have. I always wanted to be a train engineer, but from what I have heard and read, a locomotive engineer's life is a hard life, so I plan to get into aviation-- flying.

[espeefoamer]

When I was a kid,I built a model of a C47.The decal on the side said "skytrain." Was that a term used for C47s in general,or for one specific plane?

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

When I was a kid,I built a model of a C47.The decal on the side said "skytrain." Was that a term used for C47s in general,or for one specific plane?

I believe that was the name given the C-47, much as the C141 is the "Starlifter"

[Anonymous]

I got the new catalog of Historic Rail (Summer 2994) the other day. It has some interesting things in it.

Things of interest (to me anyway) are:

A video/DVD of SD80Mac Operator Familiarization. It is 50 minutes long. Sounds interesting to me.

Galloping Goose Railbus (You have to admit, that is one ugly piece of equipment).

German Keopold Railway Gun.

A "C Liner" in Pennsyvania Railroad markings.

A Shark in NYC markings.

There are also 5 videos on Conrail. Plus some Conrail models.

There are lots of posters, models, pics, etc. Way far too many to list.

The catalog is free, here is the number if you want to get one.

1-800-261-5922