Identify this BEAST

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Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:WillieOFS » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:43 am

IF you can... :p
It's real, it was produced in limited quantities for the USAF. It is currently the only one registered and flying in the world.
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It was configured to do duty as an air ambulance if need be.
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When my buddy that owns it, gets the rear mag straightened out, I'll get to fly it. :D
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Re: Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:Falcon » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:44 am

L-5 Stinson Sentinel?
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"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
- The history of Paul Revere's midnight ride, by Sarah Palin.
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Post by :FI:WillieOFS » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:48 am

:FI:Falcon wrote:L-5 Stinson Sentinel?
Close. BUT the L-5 Sentinel had a FLAT motor. :p
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Post by :FI:Falcon » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:24 pm

Gak!

didn't notice the rotary ...

the Stinson L-1 Vigilant?
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"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
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Re: Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:WillieOFS » Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:43 am

:FI:Falcon wrote:Gak!

didn't notice the rotary ...

the Stinson L-1 Vigilant?
Didn't notice that BIG HONKIN Continental RADIAL? :oops: No wonder you had to quit flying ............... :badgrin: ;)

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Re: Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:McBiggles » Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:45 am

way more interested in the sedan to the left
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Re: Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:Falcon » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:24 am

well ... having run out of ideas and resorting to cruizin' on da Internets,

it's either the Thunderball Grease-Slapper or a modified L-5 ...

like the Clevenger?????
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"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
- The history of Paul Revere's midnight ride, by Sarah Palin.
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Re: Identify this BEAST

Post by :FI:WillieOFS » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:55 am

U-19B
One L-5E used as a glider tug at the United States Air Force Academy in 1962.
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