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[Richard Cranium]

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Cessna 208 Caravan on Whip Amphibs. Charter op that delivers folks to cottages and lodges, based out of the Toronto Island Airport.

 

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[Richard Cranium]

Model Of P-51 Mustang On Man's Desk Just Maybe Gonna Get Him Through Day

Jul 22, 2024

HOUSTON, TX — Sources close to local Acme Solutions, Inc. accountant Gerald Johnson say the model P-51 Mustang sitting on his desk might have been the thing that got him through another day.

According to eyewitnesses, Johnson was suffering through yet another day of spreadsheets, meetings, and emails about maintaining corporate commitment to quality solutions at value-assured prices when his roving eye lit upon the sweet model of the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang which adorned his boring corporate desk and realized that he could perhaps make it through the grueling desiccation of another afternoon.

"I saw it and was transported to a brighter day," Johnson recalled. "The roar of the single piston-engined fighter and the rattle of six gorgeous .50-caliber machine guns lighting up the sky like stars filled my ears. I felt the exhilaration of glory and the need for speed — then I looked back at the spreadsheet I was working on and realized that I could maybe, just barely, live to fight another day."

"He looked enthralled," said Heather Willougby, one of Johnson's co-workers. "I stopped by his cubicle to ask about tomorrow's corporate LGBTQ inclusion meeting and saw him, fully entranced, spinning the little model propellers with his finger and enacting the Battle of Midway all over again. I figured my question could wait. He just looked so happy. Maybe I need one of those planes myself."

At publishing time, Johnson's manager had forced him to put away his Mustang and come to an all-staff meeting, thereby completely dispelling any hopes Johnson had of surviving the rest of the day.

 

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Republic XP-72 Super Thunderbolt

 

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I’ve been reading a few books lately about the air war in WWI and it’s amazing the wide range of aircraft that were developed in a few short years of that war, everything from the diminutive, agile Sopwith Camel to the very large German Gotha bombers lumbering through the sky’s at a blistering 80 mph. Flying those things in open cockpits at altitudes of 16-17,000 feet must have been a frigid experience.

 

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The Do 335 was certainly a rare bird, especially the training version.

 

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