Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Look! Up in the Sky!

More from Richard Seaman's website:

This is a P-26, the first monoplane fighter flown by the United States. Until Boeing got the F-35 contract, it was also the last fighter designed and built by Boeing.



This is an F3F, the last biplane fighter. The F3F entered service after the P-26


And now, a fighter that needs no introduction:

2 comments:

Tam said...

The P-26 and F3F are from my favorite age of aviation. Fixed gear monoplanes festooned with wire bracing, retractable gear biplanes with closed cockpits... Neat! Neat! Neat!

I've got a model P-26 kit around the house here that I bought on a whim years ago. I should find it and put it together...

Comrade Misfit said...

Tam,

Thanks for stopping by.

You really should build that Peashooter model. And you ought to look at the Polykarpov sometime.

The thing that amazes me is that the P-26 saw combat and had victories in the opening days of the war.

The other amazing thing is how fast aviation changed in the first 60 years of flying and how long front-line airplanes are in service now. The Spad ("Skyraider" for you Air Force pukes) was in service for 25 years and that was a very long time for a recip, but the F-15 is 30 years old and the B-52 is frigging ancient!