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Subject: Re: Anything But Wheels....
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Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in
news:j8evbapalfd9lc0ktlhms30g6i8d0vpo8v@4ax.com:
> Anything But Wheels
>
> By Dave O'Malley
>
> Here in Canada, when you meet a pilot who owns his or her own
> possibly Scandinavian countries. If you fly in Canada as a general
> the liquid, solid and powdered forms of it......
>
> To qualify to be saved to the Anything BUT Wheels folder, a photo had
> to be of a military/combat aircraft on floats or skis that was NOT
> designed from the get go as a float plane, flying boat, or bush plane.
> I started with fighter aircraft, but soon branched to military
> aircraft of all sorts - except purpose-built float aircraft. The
> folder first contained images of Spitfires on floats and P-51 Mustangs
> on skis, but soon there were trainers and the odd transport aircraft
> (though these had to be military transports). I wanted to explore the
> one-offs, the failures and the successes, not for any other reason
> than that it was, well... cool....
>
> Full Article with many outstanding pictures:
>
> http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/Ar
> ticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx
>
> Or use the shortened URL: http://bit.ly/1yKWA8D
He left out the C-130 and the C-123 with floats
and the B-29 and B-36 with the caterpillar tracks gear
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