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Rod, Congrats on your first victory in the Scavenger hunt. Your prize package is on its way to you including an all first class trip to a location of your choice, you pay for travel, lodging food etc, but it is a great prize! :rotfl: You also get one slightly used tire from Scooter Bob, guaranteed to still have rubber on the sidewalls....down near the bead! or maybe on the inside,,:rotf: Finally, I will contribute one quart of used synthetic engine oil, packaging extra, bring a sponge, it is under my Venture.....

 

About next target, don't worry if it has been done before, this has been going on a long time! I know where there is a helicopter in my home town, but that would be too easy. :whistling:

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About next target, don't worry if it has been done before, this has been going on a long time! I know where there is a helicopter in my home town, but that would be too easy. :whistling:

 

 

I live up the road from an AFB so I guess that would not be fair either :innocent:

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http://img.tapatalk.com/a6b50327-25bd-8300.jpg

 

Yah, I was just stirin' the pot with that one Joe.

 

Howa bout this one? IH Truck should like it anyway?

 

If it meets the criteria, the next target is...

 

A pic of you and your bike and some St Patrick's Day decoration.

 

Later, Scooter Bob

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Bob, is that truly homemade? Just asking, because you can buy lots of mailboxes that look like other things, this is supposed to be homemade.

 

I didn't look at it that close, but I bet the guy didn't make the half barrel either.:confused24::D

 

It's really up to Joe, I guess I wasn't really lookin' for home made, just unique. The more I look at the pic, it may have come from a John Deere dealer or something like that.:rotfl:

 

 

But if it stands, then I am to be in the St. Pats parade in Peoria Saturday.:happy65:

 

I'll be ridin' in the parade in Fox Lake again, like I've done for over 20 years now.:bang head::thumbsup2:

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Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but where were you Bob didn't see ya in the pic. :whistling:

 

That's my right arm out and up holdin' the camera/phone in the mirror. I thought I had a bit of my face in when I took the pic, but the camera sensors must have took it out for safety reasons.:scratchchin::crackup:

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Hey Joe, is that a Constellation in the third pic?

 

It sure is and here is the write up on it. I hit the small airports then just threw in the AFB pics for the heck of it.

 

C-121 "Constellation"

 

The C-121 "Constellation" is the military version of the like-named commercial transport. During World War II, the Army Air Force purchased 22 early-model "Connies," designated C-69. Between 1948 and 1955, the U.S. Air Force ordered 150 C-121s for use as cargo and passenger carriers, executive transports, and airborne early warning aircraft.

 

From September 1955 to February 1963, the Lockheed Constellation operated from Joint Base Charleston with the 1608th Air Transport Wing. In fact, the 1608th was the only Military Air Transport Service (MATS) unit to fly the 32 C-models built. While assigned to Charleston AFB, the C-models or "Super Connies" could carry 106 passengers, 40,000 pounds of cargo, or 75 stretchers. The C-121's most notable achievements while at Charleston was the airlift of Hungarian refugees to the U.S. and the airlift of U.S. military troops to the Suez Canal, the Congo, and Lebanon. The aircraft eventually was retired from active service in 1967 and transferred to the Reserve and Air National Guard units. By 1975, all C-121s had left military service.

 

The successful restoration and display of the C-47 in 1982 sparked the base to attempt to acquire other aircraft flown at Joint Base Charleston. The "bone yard" at Davis-Montham AFB, Arizona, had four C-121Cs in storage, and by 1985, the USAF Museum had approved the base's loan request for one of these aircraft. After borrowing various components and parts, a team of active duty, Reservists, and retirees restored the aircraft now on display to flyable status in only 13 days. The costs for the entire team was less than $6,000. A crew, once qualified in C-121s, had been assembled from different bases. The flight to Joint Base Charleston on June 10, 1985, in a sense, reenacted the aircraft's first appearance 30 years earlier.

 

Specifications

Span: 123 ft Length: 116 ft 2 in

Height: 24 ft 9 in Weight: 133,000 lbs maximum

Armament: None Engines: 4 Wright R-3350s of 3,400 hp each

Cost: $2,647,000 Serial #: 54-0180

 

Performance

Maximum Speed: 330 mph Cruising Speed: 255 mph

Range: 4,000 miles Service Ceiling: 33,600 ft

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Hey Joe, if you get near Rantoul, IL anytime in the future (near Champaign, south of Chicago) there is an AF museum with a unique Connie on display. Navy version with big radar bubbles top and bottom. I consider the Connie probably the most beautiful of the big planes. If you look past the domes, you can see the shape that is soooo nice. This plane also has a distinction that it HAS to be manned by either a current or ex Navy sailor before anyone can go through it. They consider it still active or something, with technology they want protected. It has not been stripped down.

 

I can't believe how small it is inside! Lots of other good stuff at that museum.

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Hey Joe, if you get near Rantoul, IL anytime in the future (near Champaign, south of Chicago) there is an AF museum with a unique Connie on display. Navy version with big radar bubbles top and bottom. I consider the Connie probably the most beautiful of the big planes. If you look past the domes, you can see the shape that is soooo nice. This plane also has a distinction that it HAS to be manned by either a current or ex Navy sailor before anyone can go through it. They consider it still active or something, with technology they want protected. It has not been stripped down.

 

I can't believe how small it is inside! Lots of other good stuff at that museum.

 

 

I was stationed at Chanute when I went through weather maint school. I think it was there then and the ECM module was still in it, great plane.

 

Also seen this one at Warner Robbins last year

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On my way home the other day, I saw an inflatable leprichaun, way taller than a real leprichaun, in somebodies front yard.:thumbsup2:

 

I stopped the bike for a good shot, grabbed the camera, then remembered I'm the one who set the target.:bang head:

 

Happy Hunting, Scooter Bob

 

 

The current target is...

A pic of you and your bike and some St Patrick's Day decoration. by Scooter Bob

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