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Toolfan66 · July 22

pitdogg2 · July 22

Dang man, you one upped me with the coil plaque!
Great looking build!!
👏👏

machone · July 22

I like the additional level for the resistors.
Nice!

Geoff4rfc · July 22

OleBoot wrote: »

Unearthed an old @Geoff4rfc pic.............

HEY!!! I never wore sunglasses like that......

Geoff4rfc · July 22

msg wrote: »

That reminded me of this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I4DEtHt3Sdw

Ah yes....the Honda Hurrican 600. First time I ever rode one was in a 6 hr endurance race, three riders, two one hour stints. Also the first time I rode GP shifting, or reverse shift. We won our class over 2nd place by 19 seconds....not bad in a 6 hr race.....

Geoff4rfc · July 22

@OleBoot an "actual unearthed old pic of Geoff....dated 1990....

mhardy6647 · July 22

STEM No Context Image 043 - Flyin' Wheel 1934.07 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

mhardy6647 · July 22

(seen on ASR)

OleBoot · July 22

mhardy6647 wrote: »

STEM No Context Image 043 - Flyin' Wheel 1934.07 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

This was driven by Raymond Mays who became quite famous as a designer and sometimes driver of Formula One cars and went on to run a tuning business supplying high performance car parts. The envy of me and my car buddies in the early 70's was a guy we knew with a straight six engined Ford Zodiac with a Raymond Mays head. Christ, I'm old.

bcwsrt · July 22

Geoff4rfc · July 22

The patches we wore on our uniforms at McChord AFB: We were a TAC outfit, we flew F-106's, our squadron was known as the Dragons, we were the 318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, defenders of the northwest....

treitz3 · July 22

bcwsrt wrote: »

How "Green!"

Tom

msg · July 22

Toolfan66 wrote: »

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Dang, I thought this was Trey's work at first.

Toolfan66 · July 23

mhardy6647 · July 23

bcwsrt wrote: »

Weenie roast on the beach!

BlueBirdMusic · July 23

After 40 years of neglect, a dilapidated jet that once belonged to Elvis Presley has a new lease on life.
The 1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar traded hands at the Mecum Kissimmee Collector Car auction in Florida back in January of 2023 for $240K. Elvis Presley bought the jet on December 22, 1976, just shy of eight months before his death. It featured six red velvet passenger seats. Elvis paid $840K.

Its new owner, James Webb of “Jimmy’s World” on YouTube, transported the jet more than 1,600 miles from Roswell, New Mexico, to Plant City, Florida, where he performed the painstaking process of repurposing it. On Wednesday July 17, 2024, visitors of the Bass Pro Shop at the Pyramid in Memphis got the opportunity to tour the King of Rock and Roll’s former 1962 Lockheed Jetstar.

Other interesting stuff re the Lockheed JetStar
The JetStars were all designed before computers and all work was done on a blackboard and with a slide rule.

After approval, the first plane flew 8 months away as promised by Kelly Johnson of the Skunk Works. Of the 206 JetStars built, only 15 or so were actually delivered to the Air Force inventory. The rest were purchased by individuals and corporations who needed trans-continental and trans-oceanic transportation.

Note: My interest in the JetStar began in 1969 when I became an employee of Lockheed-Georgia in the avionics development section for the C-5 cargo plane. This section was located isolated in an area that was next to a hangar that housed the JetStars that were owned by Howard Hughes. One of the planes was always kept outside the hangar with a 24 hour guard on duty. I saw that JetStar every day that I entered the gate to that area of the company. It was an intriguing story to me.

The aircraft's original purpose was to compete in a competition to provide a general Utility Transport Category plane for the Air Force. It was designed by the celebrated Lockheed Skunk Works in the late 1950s, which was at the time under the incredibly intuitive genius of Kelly Johnson. Johnson was the brains behind many aircraft, from the P-80 Shooting Star to the U-2 spy plane, as well as the awesome A-12, which in turn morphed into the incredible SR-71 Blackbird. These planes were all designed before computers and all work was done on a blackboard and with a slide ruler. The plane was designed with every back-up system of a Boeing 707 and the initial pilot training took 6 months to teach them to think fast enough and far enough ahead in anticipation of the plane's needed inputs

There is another side to the JetStar: its commercial history. Of the 206 JetStars built, only 15 or so were actually delivered to the Air Force inventory. The rest were purchased by individuals and corporations who needed trans-continental and trans-oceanic transportation. The earliest planes went to the likes of the Vanderbilts, the Shah of Iran and a myriad of Fortune 500 companies. The JetStar also became a favorite of many entertainment legends, including the likes of Howard Hughes, Bob Hope and Elvis Presley. Presley dubbed his “The Hound Dog”. Howard Hughes personally piloted his JetStar around the world. Howard Hughes owned several keeping them in a hangar at Lockheed in Marietta, GA. Other owners included Mario Andretti, Wayne Newton, and the plane was in the movie Goldfinger.

This C-140B-LM, S/N 62-4201, was manufactured by Lockheed Corporation in Marietta, Georgia, and delivered to the USAF on 3 July 1963. This restored plane resides at the Hill Aerospace Museum, a military aviation museum located at Hill Air Force Base in Roy, Utah.

"During the restoration, something very interesting happened. While closing the air stair door a chip of white paint flaked off and we found the one-of-a-kind Air Force blue paint that indicates Presidential usage. We then had some individuals who had worked on the plane at the 89th SAM Wing at Andrews AFB come by and they confirmed that both President Johnson and Lady Bird used the plane extensively. The aircraft was re-painted in Presidential livery and moved inside a gallery so the cockpit and interior would be available to the public for viewing."

nooshinjohn · July 23

mhardy6647 · July 23

There were only 206 JetStars built?!
I did not know that. I always found them fascinating, with their four little jet engines.

I remember seeing at least a couple of different ones at good old Friendship International Airport near B-more in my youth. Spent a lot of time at the airport with my father, who in fact even invested some time, effort, and $ in pursuing a private pilot's license in the 1970s (which he never completed, for whatever reason).

mhardy6647 · July 23

From Jalopnik to Yahoo to me... to you.

Viking64 · July 23

This is an absolvelute transvesty!!!!

mhardy6647 · July 23

^^^ Clearly, somebody harshed their mellow.

BIOD #205 - Monkey Business - 1960 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

mrbigbluelight · July 24

"Clearly, somebody harshed their mellow."]

?
You know, just READING that caused me to have a flashback 🤯🎆

Not accusing anybody of anything but the Emergency SHTF Psychedelic Kit is for EMERGENCIES ONLY !
Unauthorized use is not
....well...authorized 🤔

msg · July 24

nooshinjohn wrote: »

lol, that took me a minute.
At first I thought he deserted after he got everything he needed.

OleBoot · July 24

What the Fork?

OleBoot · July 24

pitdogg2 · July 24

OleBoot wrote: »

What the Fork?

A true pioneer in the point and shoot driving

OleBoot · July 24

OleBoot · July 24

pitdogg2 wrote: »

OleBoot wrote: »

What the Fork?

A true pioneer in the point and shoot driving

Is it someone famous? I just thought it was a bizarre looking machine.

OleBoot · July 24

mrbigbluelight · July 24

OleBoot wrote: »

Owls and eagles are mortal enemies.
Don't know why, but they hate each other 🤔

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