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                        "Is that a man?"

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                        GMorrison
                        • Member since
                          September 2012
                        "Is that a man?"
                        Posted by GMorrison on Monday, December 7, 2020 10:25 PM

                        RIP General Charles Yeager, who passed away today.

                        I never happened to be in the right place at the right time to meet him, but he's been a significant part of the American story and our lore for the last 8 decades.

                        People come into history and people go, some more significant in their impact than others.

                        Yeager is a keeper.

                        I know what I'm watching tomorrow. "Ridley, ya got any Beeman's?".

                        With a genuine tear,

                        God speed sir.

                         

                        Bill

                         

                         Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

                         

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                        Bakster
                        • Member since
                          July 2014
                        • From: Franklin Wi
                        Posted by Bakster on Monday, December 7, 2020 11:45 PM

                        A great life. The man lived it to the fullest. 

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                        stikpusher
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: Sonora Desert
                        Posted by stikpusher on Monday, December 7, 2020 11:46 PM

                        I saw him fairly close up once during the Edwards AFB Open House in 1997. He was walking through the crowd after having done a commemorative Mach Busting in a F-15 for the show. But he wasn’t exactly stopping to talk and chat at that moment. The Air Force truly treated him like living legend that he was at that time, their rock star. I’ve seen more stars on generals and admirals with less fuss around them by their service.

                         

                        F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

                        U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

                        N is for NO SURVIVORS...

                               - Plankton

                        LSM

                         

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                        Don Stauffer
                        • Member since
                          November 2009
                        • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
                        Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 8:42 AM

                        Saw him flying the XB-51 at an airshow in Detroit.  Flew it like a fighter, of course, made Martin proud, I think.

                         

                        Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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                        disastermaster
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
                        Posted by disastermaster on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:57 PM


                        They don't make 'em any finer.
                        The last of an era of true honor and integrity.
                        https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.wp.scn.ru%2Fcamms%2Far%2F165%2Fpics%2F3_43_b3.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

                        Sherman-Jumbo-1945

                        "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

                         

                         
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                        modelcrazy
                        • Member since
                          July 2014
                        Posted by modelcrazy on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:57 PM

                        I got this a few years ago at the Reno Air Races. It's a Witcoff.

                        Steve

                        Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

                         

                         

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