Rambler 1-1

I ride too! I've got a '91 Bandit 400, but it's currently in pieces, undergoing a much-needed tranny rebuild. Turns out Mr. Previous Owner liked to shift clutchless, and sucked at matching revs.

Here's my most recent pic of the complete bike, before I changed handlebars and some other stuff:

...And here's it's current condition... =(

@ MajorLee, that bike looks seriously immaculate. CBR600F2?

@ TurtleHawk, that's a pretty slick bimmer.

Homesickness....

my little tribute for a big classic.

 

Never forgotten.

YES!

That's my all time favorite paint job with my all-time favorite nose art on my all time favorite fighter. I NEED that skin!

I like the classics.

I know what I want for Christmas.

Also, that was a strangely epic soundtrack.

Looked to me like plain old compressor stall. Usually there's a puff of smoke or flame with a bird strike or blade failure. Then again, I have been wrong before.

The video on the Global TV Calgary site is a good one, but I can't hear the engines over the Bee-Gees that were playing on the loudspeakers...

makeup and tampon commercials during football games. COME ON, REALLY?

Possibly the best first post I have ever seen.

I hope a museum near here bucks up for that engine.

As for me, I want the Martin-Baker from the Canberra they have for sale; Good flight-sim chair!

Well, I just got flight sim 04 re-installed, with my new rudder pedals and full-size joystick (pictures later), and the first thing I did was get the IRIS P-40 pack. I've taken a few flights, but i really wanted to know what power settings to use on the engine for climb and cruise and such. I did a quick google search, and found THIS. It's (almost) everything you need to know about flying a P-40, and I found it pretty good to watch.

YES! F-35s! SHINY NEW FIGHTER JETS! HOORAYY!!!!

I'll bet they end up at Alert Bay. Do Lockheeds work in cold weather?

Was that a CF-18 doing the Sabre Dance? Damn... Glad he got out okay.

... but the crash leaves us with what ? Two

Don't worry, man! We have 65 F-35s on the way!

try higher cruising altitudes to increase your range. Your indicated airspeed will be lower, but your ground speed will be much higher and you will burn less fuel as well. I usually try to cruise as high as I can get. It's also handy if you run into MiGs.

...just a little too late...

Knocking down Bulls in the Skyray... something I've been waiting to do for a looooong time!

They didn't shoot back, though... I'll have to fix that.

Never seen the northern lights from above before...

(Aw maaannn, I wanted to be the one who killed this thread for good!)

^False. Soccer is one of the many sports that I am much better at watching then playing. And I fall asleep whenever I watch it.

The person below me has the summer off.

Oh Boy, I've missed a lot. All these beautiful WWII and early post-war planes, SR-71 and F-117 WIPs, the NEW CAT IS OUT, the TSR-2 is out, and SF2 has it's own board. whoa. Overload of awesome.

Anyways, I rigged up my joystick yesterday and re-installed SF2 V and E today; got a few good shots in, but I severely need to get the ENBseries mod working again.

Here's the angelic F-4C I posted by accident on the SF1 board:

And here's my first flight in the new 'Cat. My heart belongs to the F-14A.

My first in a while: An early F-4C looking rather... Angelic.

EDIT:

Whoops, didn't see that SF2 now has it's own section. Guess I've been away too long...

Took my dad to the airshow at a local municipal airport. Lots of nice little planes, some beautiful old Cessnas and Fleet Canucks. They also had some cars doing drag-races down the runway, and some neat displays of vintage vehicles. There was also a 2-stroke engine powered Maytag washing machine from the 30's!

...I think they may have inadvertently cracked the pop music code.

I actually noticed that many video games use 88 as a runway number, even though it's not even possible to have a runway 88. I know that 1942 and 1943 (on the NES) have runway 88, the TV Anime and video game Area 88 have runway 88 (natch), an old playset I used to have had runway 88 on it (with 44 going the other direction ), and I seem to recall a movie or two (Maybe Sky Capitan...?) having a runway 88.

Beautiful! Bump mapping FTW!

^ I was hoping you'd ask! :P

This is it's good side, the gas tank is metal and took a few dents and scratches on the other side.

This one shows off my new bracket, and tire. You can't even tell it took a hit like it did. Built like a bridge, this thing!

And thanks for the sympathy, guys. I was ridiculously lucky to come away scot-free like I did.

For the record, the damage to the van looked like it was in excess of $1000 or so. Ha-ha!

"Wow... She's beautiful..."

good choice!

This is a movie based on a series that has a huge, devoted fanbase. As long as they stick to A-team tradition and don't try to "re-interpret" it or something, it'll be awesome. The more references they make to the TV series (the theme song, the van, the catchphrase, etc.), the better it will be.